The nintendo AMD arm x86 arq on the next consoles would have backwards compatibility?

[Mr Khan]

mine said:

teigaga said:

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.

Might be the case - but not in 2016. At some point in time they will drop BC if they are forced to change the CPU architecture and the new one isn't fast enough to emulate the PowerPC...

the Wii U has a lot of live in it as Iwata said: Nintendo won't release a new console until they have satisfied the Wii U owners.

And their is nothing other than Nintendos own capabilities which hinders them from making the Wii U more successfull by reaching new audiences. There are tens of  millions of Wii owners still waiting for Nintendo to give them a reason to buy a Wii U...

They have nothing really to gain from clinging to Wii U owners, though, who *might* total 20 million at the end of the day, and that's if Nintendo shunts the console into the bargain bin to get that last 5 million.

Just hope i have a solid job next year, because i still think they're going to drop both platforms almost at once. Cross-compatibility in the hardware architecture would mean there'd be no reason to cling to Wii U for too long after the new handheld is out: it would be a waste of resources to continue Wii U development, since likely the N7 and the GB6 will have development in the same pipeline.