Even before Nintendo unveiled the Switch 2 in all its glory, one of the few confirmed things we knew was that it'd be backwards compatible with existing Switch games, and the company has now stated that this decision was made since it was "the best direction" for consumers.
Between the OG Nintendo Switch and its OLED and Lite variants, the current-gen Switch family has sold a lot. To be precise, as of last September, over 146 million consoles and 1.3 billion pieces of software had been sold. That's an enormous amount of existing players with even more existing games, something which a Nintendo representative acknowledges in a statement sent to Game File.
