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With the Switch 2, Nintendo is clearly the only company that understands the importance of backward compatibility

With the Nintendo Switch 2 finally announced and fully revealed, we have learned a ton about the console and its games. While the new Nintendo games coming our way, like Mario Kart World and Metroid ...
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Nintendo Explains How Backwards Compatibility Works for Switch 2

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
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Why the Nintendo Switch Likely Won’t Go the Way of the Wii U

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...
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Here's Nintendo's Switch 2 Backwards Compatibility Game Plan

All the hubbub the last couple of days has been about the Switch 2's preorder date, and how that's been delayed due to Trump's tariffs, but something else caught our ear during Nintendo Direct this ...
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Switch 2 plays Switch 1 games through something "in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility," so don't expect the same backward compatibility we got on 3DS and Wii U

While Nintendo Switch 2 backwards compatibility will let you play a broad range of many of the original Switch's library, it isn't completely all-encompassing. Nintendo says there were some notable ...