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KLXVER said:
Hynad said:

BC would also have made the console more expensive. Nintendo gets away with it because they don't aim the same technical advancements. They've been recycling the Gamecube architecture for 2 generations now. And it certainly shows.


The WiiU is not much different from a GC?

They both share the same hardware DNA. That's why backward compatibility is so easy to achieve. The same cannot be said with the PS4. Which went from a PPC based CPU (PS3's Cell), to the much demanded [by developers] x86.