Backwards compatibility on 3DS and WiiU?

[Viper1]

darkknightkryta said:

Viper1 said:

darkknightkryta said:

How much money could they possibly be saving?  I still never understood Nintendo's problem here though.  Even the WIi had to restart to load GC games, which is stupid, they're both the same architecture.  It's like me having to restart my computer everytime I wanted to play Quake.

It's a virtualized hardware sandbox system for security.

Which as I said before, Sony figured out with the PS3.  I honestly don't believe Nintendo's engineers are that incompetent.

Sony initially did B/C totally in hardware by having the actual PS2 hardware in the system.  Only after several years and multiple hardware revisions (incuding several that had no B/C at all) did they go to a totally software B/C but that's limited in that it's not 100% campatible with everything PS2.   Same with the X360.

Now, none of the PS3 systems are B/C with PS2 and in fact haven't been since 2008.