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walsufnir on 26 November 2014
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pokoko said:
the_dengle said:
"Would it be safe to assume the next generation of consoles will be backwards compatible with the current?"

It would be much safer to assume that only Nintendo will provide true backwards-compatibility going forward. Especially since Sony is figuring out how to charge PS4 owners for the ability to play PS3 games on their new consoles.

You're assuming that Nintendo will go with the same type of processor again?  Interesting.


Sony did it with PS3 - just put the other processor in the package (or even the GPU).

If Nintendo uses the same GPU architecture (with a lot more power and modern architecture and features) and higher memory bandwidth, they could put in the tri-core PPC in the package and this CPU could even be to offload general tasks for games. It's definitely not ouf the way technically and Nintendo has a certain tradition with backwards compatibility.