Why did sony removed BC from the PS3

[montrealsoon]

NJ5 said:

Lolcislaw said:
Does getin' rid of BC really saves them that much money in terms of manufacturing? So if Wii got rid of GC compability it would be much cheaper?

The Wii doesn't use Gamecube chips for BC. The Wii's CPU and GPU are backwards compatible, so they can run Wii games as well as GC games.

There's some cost to BC on the Wii but it's probably very small... I can't see any special costs other than the controller ports which are probably very cheap.

 

 

I think it's fair to say the Wii is an enhanced GameCube.

The costs associated to BC would be more the inclusion of the controller ports/ memory card slots.

I could see a future Wii without the GC slots (a la DSi with no GBA slot)