spemanig said:
Soundwave said:
Depends on the game.
For things like Splatoon and Mario Maker, I think Nintendo will just go straight to Splatoon 2 and Mario Maker 2.0. Though they could incorporate a lot/much of the content from the previous games.
For things like Xenoblade X, Star Fox Zero, Pikmin 3, DKC: Tropical Freeze, Yoshi's Wooly World, ... I think they may want to port some of these games to NX because they likely missed a lot of sales due to the Wii U's low user base and they're perfectly good games that probably a lot of people on the NX won't have played or may be interested in playing in a portable iteration for instance.
DKC really sold poorly on Wii U for example, that franchise should be selling 3-4x the amount it did and it's as good or better than any previous DKC game so quality certainly wasn't the issue either. |
They won't need to do any of that. All those games will be available on the eshop at launch.
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I think NX is a distinct platform from the Wii U. They're not going to use things like that outdated IBM architecture again as its killing their hardware margins.
They'll probably incorporate elements/design philosophies of the Wii U GPU and memory architecture into the NX, but not a literal chip swap that would allow for literal backwards comp.
So those games would still have to be ported, though it shouldn't be such a huge pain in the ass to do it. Should be fairly simple.
