Switch 2: Latest Rumor Says The One Feature You're Waiting For Could Be Real

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A new rumor suggests that the Nintendo Switch 2 will include a highly requested feature. Nintendo has yet to officially announce its next console but there have been several recent reports that have suggested what players can expect from its hardware, and when it may release.

As reported by (via. ), the PH Brazil podcast is claiming that the Nintendo Switch 2 will feature backwards compatibility for both digital copies of games and their physical game cards. Not only do these rumors suggest that the new device will be able to play these games, but apparently it will also enhance them should the developer update the game for the newer system.

One of the reasons that backwards compatibility is so highly demanded by players is that it helps massively with game preservation, especially with developers providing updates to help titles perform even better than before on newer hardware. While the Game Boy era of handhelds saw players able to plug their cartridges into the newer versions as they came out — and the first Nintendo DS and the DS Lite even had a port to run Game Boy Advance cartridges, even if this functionality was dropped in later models — Nintendo has been known to re-release remakes or remasters of past titles for the Nintendo Switch instead due to the console's fundamentally different hardware.

Nintendo Switch Online users have been granted access to select titles from the NES and SNES, Game Boy, and Game Boy Color, with an Expansion Pack adding titles from the Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy Advance. While this is a good way for players to play some older titles from the Nintendo catalog, with the rumors that the Nintendo Switch 2 is largely going to be a better version of the Nintendo Switch, much like the Game Boy's enhancements over the years, it wouldn't make much sense to charge players to pay for a title again that they only bought a couple of years prior for similar hardware.

While remasters and remakes for recent titles have become fairly