Backward compatibility is a must-have for most new consoles; it's been common for Nintendo since the very beginning, but the Switch 2 is different.

The Nintendo Switch 2 development team explains how the console's backwards compatibility technology will improve the performance of Switch games.

Here’s why your Nintendo Wii still connects to your router ... My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations ...

In an update posted to Nintendo's official site, the company revealed that nearly 100 percent of first-party games remain ...

With past backwards-compatible systems, like the Game Boy Color and Advance, DS family, and Wii / Wii U, playing older games was simple because the new console included hardware from the previous ...

Nintendo has offered an update on 2 games that were having issues with running on Switch 2, including a pretty big one!

Kawamoto adds to that: "Simply put, those systems were compatible because Nintendo 3DS contained Nintendo DS hardware, and ...

an online Q&A revealed that the new system’s backward compatibility doesn’t work like prior Nintendo consoles. While the 3DS included DS hardware to play old games and the Wii U included Wii ...

My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations ...