In a complicated history, modders have been trying to solve the mystery of PS5 backward compatibility, and there's a crack in ...

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Sony has acknowledged that backwards compatibility was a unique and much-welcomed feature before it was dropped in the PS4 generation. It has long been assumed that a shift in console architectures is ...

Nintendo has now officially confirmed that the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with current Switch games, and it sounds like investors are seeing this as a good sign of things to come. This ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 started making news even before its official release, as Nintendo was quick to confirm that the console would include backwards compatibility with the original console’s games.

According to Reuters, back in 2022, Intel lost a major PS6 chip manufacturing contract to AMD for a number of reasons, one of which is backwards compatibility. Sony‘s executives and engineers ...

A big question around the Switch 2 has just been answered. While everyone (in the U.S. at least) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo officially confirmed that its next ...

Over nearly eight years, the Nintendo Switch has built up an incredible library of games. While many Nintendo systems have struggled to gain the attention of third-party publishers, Switch has ...

All the hubbub the last couple of days has been about the Switch 2's preorder date, and how that's been delayed due to Trump's tariffs, but something else caught our ear during Nintendo Direct this ...

As part of Microsoft's 20th anniversary of Xbox broadcast, the company announced that 70+ additional original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles have been added to the backwards compatibility library in what ...

We haven't had backwards compatibility in our game consoles for very long -- around just two generations. The desirability of the feature is so widespread, though, that people are willing to follow ...