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| Biggerboat1 said: 1) Wouldn't the likleyhood be that backwards compatibility would be no-go if they switched GPU manufacturer anyway? Are there recent examples of BC between consoles that don't share the same manufacturers of CPU/GPU? Nintendo moved from AMD to nVidia for Switch and it couldn't play (digital) Wii U games, whereas Wii U / Wii were BC with their predecessors. I realise game format also plays a role in BC, but that wouldn't stop Switch playing digital Wii U games. I also realise that if emulating, you need more headroom between consoles than Switch has over Wii U, due to going from traditional home console to hybrid... |
Microsoft did it with both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One, though it took a few years in either case.
Also Sony, but they would include past-generation hardware to do it. Not exactly a cheap proposition nowadays or even 15 years ago, when they stopped it.
