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[JEMC]

Darwinianevolution said:

JEMC said:

That's THE point, isn't it?

Agree, WiiU games have a lot of value. The WiiU will become a very rare console, way rarer than the GCube. But it has a lot of interesting games, a lot of people might want to try them without needing to look after a WiiU. And if the NX changes the architecture of the NX to PowerPC, direct BC is going to be awfully difficult (in contrast to the easy Wii-GC compatibility).

If they don't guarantee fully BC, they could do something similar to the XBone-360.

That's true.

But what's more important, to keep backwards compatibility to let new users play "old" Wii U games on their NX console, even if that means keep using hardware that rest of the industry doesn't support and therefore making ports a bit more difficult, or moving away from PowerPC to make their console easier to develop for even if that means that whoever wants to play Wii U games will have to buy an used Wii U or buy one of the possible re-releases on NX.

That's one of the decisions that Nintendo will have to make has been forced to take, and that will play an important role into what kind of console we may see.