I convey excellent news. You recognize the Nintendo Change’s successor, or the Change 2 as everybody’s been calling it for years at this level? Nicely, Nintendo’s confirmed that it will have backwards compatibility for Change video games. Which means no having to wish that Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits will get quickly ported to the brand new {hardware} straight away, so you’ll be able to proceed to play it in public with out dropping road cred.

This affirmation comes immediately from Ninty president Shuntaro Furukawa, in an official Tweet that comes with the stunning mixture of ‘enterprise man should say a factor in a businesslike method on the hell platform’ and ‘mildly necessary textual content out of your dad’ vitality you’d anticipate.

“That is Furukawa,” the exec wrote, “At as we speak’s Company Administration Coverage Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Change software program may also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Change. Nintendo Change On-line might be obtainable on the successor to Nintendo Change as effectively.

“Additional details about the successor to Nintendo Change, together with its compatibility with Nintendo Change, might be introduced at a later date.” So there you go, you must have the ability to play older Change issues on the newer Change, which is sweet. So good, actually, that in line with Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese video games trade consultancy agency Kantan Video games, even buyers who in all probability do not have a bunch of Change video games stashed away of their drawers have reacted fairly favourably.

Anyway, returning to the concept of enjoying OG Change video games on the Change 2 at any time when it releases, this could hopefully imply that you could ring in that date by operating away from a large shark on a jet ski, if you want. That is assuming you personal Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits, a, effectively, fishing sport that got here out on Change in 2022. It is about operating some sort of aquarium-themed theme park, and primarily based on its trailer, has a mini-game that sees you and as much as three mates – as an Animal Crossing-esque fellas – combat to remain forward of a rampaging not-quite Jaws on floating motorbikes.

To come back clear, I’ve by no means performed it, but when I can achieve this on Change 2, I feel the probabilities of me truly getting off my bum and placing my cash the place my mouth is will rise above 1%, in order that’s one thing.

For the reason that Change 2 hasn’t had its official identify confirmed but, the precise video games that’ll be getting variations specfically geared toward it aren’t in a position to be correctly introduced as coming to the console but, so we have been getting bulletins like Yooka-Replaylee coming to “future Nintendo Platforms”, eyes emoji.