{"id":1051514,"date":"2026-06-26T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1051514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:37:18","slug":"nintendo-refuses-to-answer-whether-ds-or-3ds-games-are-coming-to-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1051514\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Refuses To Answer Whether DS Or 3DS Games Are Coming To Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DS\"\/<\/a> Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life<\/p>\n

Y’know, if we were present at some of these Shareholder Q&A sessions at Nintendo, there are so many interesting questions we’d ask. So. Many.<\/p>\n

Yet according to OatmealDome<\/a> on social media (via @NStyles<\/a>), one particular shareholder decided to ask a question that, realistically, they must have known wouldn’t be answered in a satisfactory way.<\/p>\n

The question..?<\/p>\n

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“Will you make Nintendo DS or 3DS games playable on Switch 2?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Come on now. In what universe is NCL President Shuntaro Furukawa going to confirm something like this at a Shareholder Q&A? He didn’t, in case you’re wondering. Because of course not.<\/p>\n

Here’s what he had to say in response:<\/p>\n

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“I can\u2019t answer your question specifically, but we are working to make our valuable back catalog playable on current hardware wherever possible.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pretty polite answer, all things considered. And to be clear, we’re of the mind that some DS and 3DS games probably will come to the Switch 2 in some fashion (a patent last year<\/a> suggested they might, but then again, patents are never a guarantee of anything), but any announcements regarding this will be made on Nintendo’s terms, and not a moment sooner. Unless a leaker gets there first, as seems to be the case these days.<\/p>\n

Anyway, shareholders need to come up with some better questions.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts on this? Do you think we might see DS or 3DS games on Switch 2? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n

[source x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Ollie<\/p>\n

Nintendo Life\u2019s resident horror fanatic, when he\u2019s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life Y’know, if we were present at some of these Shareholder Q&A sessions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[34832,1424,128,270,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1051514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-3ds","tag-ds","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116816921824767761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}