Is Legacy content/backwards compatibility important for a console's success?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

SnesTea said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

4) Switch.  Backwards compatible?  No.  Legacy content?  Lots of it.  The best selling game on the Switch is a Wii U game.  One reason why the Switch did so well out of the gate is because they could port over a lot of the Wii U titles.  That made the Switch's library pretty good even from the first year, because most people never played those Wii U titles.  The Switch also has a bunch of old NES/SNES games included with it's online service.

I bought a Switch because of its native games. I love legacy content like the S/NES online stuff but it's not the reason I bought the system.

I am in this boat.  I didn't buy the Switch for Mario Kart 8 either, because I played it plenty of times on the Wii U.  In spite of this Mario Kart 8 is the best selling game on the Switch.  Lots of people never played Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U, so it is valuable as a Switch game. 

For that matter some Switch owners never played the S/NES games that are available either.  Not every Switch owner is like you or me.  These older games are still fun games even today and for some people they are like brand new because they haven't played them before.  The Switch wouldn't have nearly as much first party content without Wii U ports like Mario Kart 8 or the S/NES games.