Summary
- Switch 2 users will be reliant on their existing libraries for the first few months following the console’s launch
- Nintendo has promised comprehensive backward compatibility for the console
- The company is still testing the compatibility of over 15,000 third-party games for the new console
- An update to the compatibility support page shows that two-thirds of the games are either unaffected or any issues will be resolved quickly
- Nearly all of the rest of the games will be launched as expected, although some will require further testing
- Only a tiny percentage of games, all of them from third-party developers, won’t make the transition to the Switch 2 at all
- Nearly all of Nintendo’s first-party library is compatible, except for Labo kits and games designed for the original Joy-Cons.
By Andrew Cunningham
Original Article