Games Inbox: Nintendo Switch 2 backwards compatibility, FIFA 24 doubts, and Gotham Knights concerns
The Thursday letters page hopes for a Syndicate revival from EA, as one reader is unimpressed by Nintendo’s 2022 games line-up.
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Backwards Nintendo So we’re starting to see the first hints from Nintendo that the Switch 2 is real (I personally doubt it’s the Switch Pro, I think that moment has passed). Even though this isn’t an official tease Nintendo don’t tend to do anything too far in advance of a release, so my guess would be that it will be out within the next 12 months – possibly around March when the original came out and perhaps alongside Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, which is again repeating the same trick as the first one.
That all seems good to me and about the right time for Nintendo to go ‘next gen’ but for some reason the first question that comes to my mind is will it have backwards compatibility? It’s unfairly forgotten by many, but the Wii was actually really good for backwards compatibility and so was the Wii U. But since the Switch doesn’t use discs it can’t run any of the older games straight off.
What Nintendo aren’t very good at is digital accounts and services – it took them until now not to just tie all the games to the console and not your account – so I really don’t know if they’re going to see digital backwards compatibility as priority. I hope so though because I am not going to be buying Breath Of The Wild and Mario Kart 8 again just to play on the Switch 2, even if it’s Mario Kart 8 Super Deluxe.
It’s always hard to guess what Nintendo sees as important, especially as they’re not trend-chasers, but I hope they realise that backwards compatibility is more than an optional extra now, even if it didn’t seem to gain them much on the
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