Dozens of Wii U games will become available across three consecutive generations of Nintendo consoles once the Switch 2 is finally released. This has never happened before in Nintendo's history.
While the Japanese gaming giant hasn't always offered backward compatibility, its efforts to focus on such capabilities did intensify in the mid-2000s. But the Switch broke this pattern as Nintendo's first home console since 2001 not to be compatible with its predecessor's game library. This is why some vocal fans have long been insisting that backward compatibility is a must for the Switch 2—a view that Nintendo seemingly agrees with, seeing how it just recently confirmed that its next console will indeed offer this feature.
Nintendo appears to be working on a useful technology that could help the Switch 2 deliver a substantially improved couch co-op experience.
One side effect of the Switch 2 backward compatibility is that some games from the Wii U era are now guaranteed to be available on three consecutive generations of Nintendo consoles. As originally noted by Game File's Stephen Totilo, this has never happened before. Out of the 12 consoles Nintendo has released since 1985, only half of them were...
