Nintendo has a new console on the way, but you can still hang onto those old games. The company has confirmed that the just-announced Switch 2 device will support cartridges from the original Switch.

Looking back on the history of Nintendo's day one console releases to see how the Switch's measure up to the legacy ...

The Switch 2 rumor mill has been ... it doesn’t seem too far-fetched for Nintendo, a company that has historically had a preposterous “game cartridge to box size ratio” since the DS launched.

The Switch 2 should be compatible with most cartridges from the first Switch. However, as Nintendo spelled out in its reveal trailer, some games won’t work. Some games “may not be supported on ...

Before today’s reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 design we already knew that the console would be backwards compatible with old Switch games in some way. That was thanks to a November 2024 statement ...