One query everybody desires to know is that if Nintendo’s next-generation {hardware} will embody backwards compatibility help. Earlier {hardware} releases from the Japanese agency have supported this characteristic, so will this be the case with the Change successor?
Following the most recent spherical of trade whispers about this anticipated machine, “trade insider” Nate the Hate is now claiming this new machine “has backwards compatibility help”. This newest replace (through VGC) follows comparable backwards compatibility claims from peripheral maker Mobapad earlier this yr.
Nintendo is formally referring to this new machine because the “Change successor”, which already suggests there might be some type of connection to the present {hardware}.
The newest hearsay follows hypothesis a few potential ‘Change 2’ reveal happening as early as this month. David Gibson, Senior Analyst at MST Finacial, has additionally supplied an replace on one growth “no-one appears to have seen”. It seems Nintendo assembler Hosiden has been spending huge on its main buyer (Nintendo):
“The Nintendo assembler- Hosiden is spending ¥2bn on manufacturing tools and ¥1bn on automation in FY3/25 for its main buyer in amusement (Nintendo). I nonetheless anticipate Sept information and March 2025 launch for subsequent machine.”
Nintendo has already talked about in earlier statements the way it’s trying to switch sure programs (together with accounts) throughout to its subsequent era of {hardware}, so backwards compatibility makes quite a lot of sense.
The Japanese firm will announce its subsequent mannequin Change within the present “fiscal yr”, so earlier than the tip of March 2025.
