SWITCH Rumor Round-up

[TheLastStarFighter]

Darc Requiem said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

Your point about PS3 and price is so ridiculous it almost makes your post hard to take seriously, but regardless: 

-The PS3 cost was mostly Bluray and Cell, BC was minor.

-PS3 included both GPU and CPU of PS2 initially; they later removed the GPU to reduce costs. We're only talking about including the Wii U CPU here.

-Everyone owned a PS2; no one owned a Wii U.

-The idea here is that the Wii U CPU would be a functioning part of the NX CPU, not just there for BC. 

-If Nintendo is going to have a strong launch and perhaps introduce a paid subscription service, a key selling point is their back catalogue.  Wii U compatibility offers not only Wii U games, but everything from older systems already ported to the EShop and VC.  Starting from scratch (again) could be costly in both resources and time. NX needs a strong back catalogue download service from the get go to lure in old, lapsed Nintendo fans.

We have several conflicting NX rumors but one of the few things they all seem to agree on is that the platform is dropping discs in favor of cartridges. Without a disc drive, BC is a bit of a moot point. 

Disc-based BC is gone, absolutely.  Downloadable BC will be a significant part of the system.