Will Nintendo's next handheld and console use Power PC like the Wii U?

[burninmylight]

spemanig said:

burninmylight said:

By anchor, I meant from a technological progression standpoint, not necessarily a consumer value standpoint. I agree with you about consoles losing a ton of value without BC.

I guess I can agree there, though I don't see why it's so difficult to keep BC while making beefy hardware at an affordable price.

Because to make a console backwards compatible, you have to either base your new console around the same architecture as the old one, which is usually very dated by the time you're looking to release the new one (Wii and GameCube), or you throw in hardware that literally makes it two different consoles one box (PS3 and PS2), which makes it quite pricey. Or I guess you could try to go the emulation route (360 and Xbox OG), but that's the weakest option.