You can play your Nintendo Change video games on its successor

You do not have to take nice pains to protect your Change to make sure you can nonetheless play your favourite video games on it years and years from now. Nintendo has revealed in its earnings report that the upcoming successor to the Switch can have backwards compatibility and can have the ability to run video games made for the present console. As well as, Change On-line may even be accessible on the Change 2, which implies your saves saved on the cloud can be carried over and you’ll play NES, SNES and Sport Boy titles on the brand new console.

Nintendo defined that it is making Change On-line accessible on the upcoming console, as a result of it thinks it is vital for the corporate’s future to “carry over the great relationship” it has constructed with its greater than 100 million annual taking part in customers to the brand new system. The primary approach to take action is to utilize the Nintendo Account, which ties a person’s historical past to at least one account and permits the corporate to “keep a steady relationship” with them throughout console generations. Earlier than the Nintendo Account was launched, Nintendo had no straightforward strategy to carry a person’s historical past and purchases over to the subsequent console. “Consequently, our relationship with the customers was interrupted when a brand new system was bought,” it mentioned.

The corporate promised to disclose extra details about the Change 2 “at a later date,” although it did not say when precisely. In a latest occasion the place we thought the brand new Change might be introduced, Nintendo launched an alarm clock as an alternative. Based mostly on its earnings outcomes, it seems like folks might be selecting to attend for the brand new console as an alternative of shopping for the present Change: The corporate needed to downgrade its sales forecast for the fiscal yr as a consequence of a giant decline in console gross sales in comparison with the identical intervals final yr.