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Bofferbrauer on 17 October 2015
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Tachikoma said:
jlmurph2 said:


This is a 9th gen console though. Why would they go and make it weaker than 8th gen??

To be honest I think they should just make it backwards compatible with WiiU and scrub the WiiU, and make the new one its 8th gen replacement.
It's too early to go 9th gen spec for them, the unit prices would be sky high and the profit margins super low.

Each time they underspec/outspec they are giving third parties the middle finger and ensuring the consoles lifecycle is sparse for games.

Here's the problem though: POWER3 (which is what the Gamecube/Wii/Wii U is based upon) uses a slightly different instruction set than later POWER processors, whose Instruction Set only got standardised with POWER5, which means they can't go and use a more modern version of the chip. POWER8 is the last one right now and not totally compatible with POWER3, neither does his predecessor, and probably also the reason why Nintendo had to reuse the Chip and extensively modify the age-old chip for the Wii U.

Thus for backwards compatibility, they would either need to reuse the chip in NX again just for that, or make NX strong enough to emulate the Wii U, which might very well need specs higher than a PS4 to do it as thorough as Nintendo usually does with the VC