The Nintendo Switch 2 will definitely be backwards compatible, but that confirmation did come with a bit of an asterisk.

Donkey Kong Country Returns' was one of the very best games on the Nintendo Wii, and now it's back and better than ever on the Switch.

You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls.