[Rumour] Latest information about NX !

[Darwinianevolution]

JEMC said:

Darwinianevolution said:

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.

Their priority now is expanding their userbase. I'd love BC from the start,but I'm sure Nintendo is already making a couple of Wii/WiiU remasters for the NX first year. An emulation similar to XBone-360 would be ideal, specially to reward WiiU users, they get the upgraded version of the games they already own.

Also, we don't even know if the NX home console will use CDs, considering they can either go fully digital or go back to cartridges to make the system compatible with the handheld NX. So regular BC isn't even clear. We could see a scenario where the NX is naturally BC with the DS/3DS instead of the WiiU, just because their games are on cartridges.