THEORY: Nintendo dropping backwards compatibility for the NX

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teigaga said:

Does anyone honestly think that a large portion of Wii owners went back and played gamecube games, or even cared to acknowledge gamecube games? It'll be the exact same situation with NX (home console).

Nintendo will likely drop BC simply because it doesn't make any sense going forward. The Wii U was not successful so Nintendo have no interest in trying to carry along its audience as they tried with the wii audience and unlike gamecube/Wii, NX architecture will likely be very different from Wii U. Logistics has been the only thing behind past BC as far as Nintendo's home consoles are concerned, that is now (probably) out of the window.

I think Nintendo will just port their most important games from SNES-Wii U on NX (both handheld+home console) and give them digital releases. One or 2 wii U games may see retail remasters instead (Xenoblade, Zelda?)

I doubt I'm the average gamer but for a long period of buying my wii I was mainly playing gamecube games on it. I bought a wii fairly late too perhaps 2009. I still view the Gamecube library as better than wii overall.  The Gamecube had a lot of third party support and because the Gamecube was a competitive design with ps2 and the original xbox it got many of the same games as well as many exclusives. Great wii games were a struggle on such weak hardware and  only Nintendo really delivered on that.  Most wii ports of 360 and PS3 games were horrible both visually and with limitations in gameplay and I also had a 360 which I could use when it wasn't suffereing from RROD.

I also only bought a wii u at launch really because I wanted to run wii games via hdmi. If the wii u didn't have wii compatibility then it probably would have had a far superior chipset so may still have bought one at launch but if it was at the same performance level, pricing and no wii compatibility then I certainly wouldn't have bought one at launch.