What truly caught my attention, however, is the one feature that I want to see on all upcoming consoles: backwards compatibility. Right off the bat, Nintendo announced that original Nintendo Switch games would work on the Switch 2 — and that includes both digital and physical games.

The announcement doesn’t come as a surprise—especially in the wake of CES 2025, where several peripheral makers were bold enough to display replicas of the unrevealed hardware to showcase their Switch 2 accessories—but you might be shocked at just how closely the upcoming Switch 2 sticks to the form and function of its predecessor.