Alternate History: Wii U as a standard 8th gen console

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burninmylight said:

Also, let's not forget the Wii U was still on that played out as hell PowerPC architecture from the GameCube days. In this scenario, does it still have a PPC processor, or a more modern one?

If it's the latter, then does that mean no Wii backwards compatibility, or how would that be handled?

RedKingXIII said:

Would the software droughts and the 3DS still exist in this scenario? Because if so I don't think the Wii U would've done a lot better.

Good questions: in this scenario let's assume 3DS still exists, and the Wii U uses modern architecture with no backwards compatibility, as I don't think it would be viable to push the old PowerPC 750 cores up to that level.

The first party droughts remain.