teigaga on 18 January 2015
| teigaga said: They should and probably will drop it. I'm no expert but I presume backwards compatibility will come at a cost, and probably no benefit. - Wii U had backwards compat to help carry over the 100m wii audience, especially because ever green titles like wii sports/wii fit. -Wii had gamecube compatibility because it was 2 gamecubes stuck together. Nintendo's home consoles have not had a long tradition of being backwards compat, again the last 2 systems had very obvious reasons to be. I presume they will resort back to the Gamecube, N64, SNes days of no BC. Moving forward Nintendo have nothing to gain by making their next system backwards compatible. Smash and Mario kart will get their piece of the pie as they always do each making previous entries obsolete, Zelda Wii U can be remastered and re-released alongside X and everything else will naturally be forgotten or replaced with a sequel. |
Plus this way the Wii U/wii can live on as archive machines. Between them you've got Nintendo's whole history in terms of MOST notable releases.
