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WagnerPaiva said:
In indisight, Nintendo should have made sure everything on its system was better than the 7 years old HD twins, it would spare then a lot of criticism and would not cost that much more.

Backwards compatibility is the primary culprit; in order to ensure the system could play Wii games, they had to pick a CPU from the same product line, instead of a newer and more powerful design.