yes of course i have no idea what im talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBc0G7Lb0A

id say that's an epic fail on your logic there pal.

Backward compatibility is probably more important in the future with the rise of digital downloads and having a vast library of downloaded games. I buy all my Wii U games on eshop and I feel pretty confident I'll be able to download them all to the next nintendo console when that's out. Two gen backwards compatibility is what's really important though. All those really old games you long forgot about and are due a replay.

When I bought my Wii, I gave my Gamecube to my sister. When I bought my Wii U, I gave my Wii to my niece (by that time, I'd gotten the Gamecube back). I never owned a GBA, so I played a few important GBA games on my DS. By comparison, I'd have loved to give my N64 to someone without losing some good games, but was unable to because there was no backwards compatibility.

BC gives new owners a chance to play older titles, and it gives old owners an option to sell/give away their old console without having to lose access to their games.

You do realize, that GT3 is a PS2 game, 6th generation. That they guy only recently got working on his rig, last year, a month after the new consoles released.

On my mid tier rig I can run KH2 at about 10-20 fps sometimes even 30 if i'm lucky.

There is no logic for me to fail here, this is just understanding of how emulation actually functions.

You can either emulate via hardware which requires much less power at the expense of including the physical parts(driving up price) as did the OG PS3 did with the PS2.

Or you can have software emulation which requires a lot more power since the systems power is actually recreating a virtualized version of the system being emulated. It's not as simple as simply running a game on better hardware, No.

The guy who is playing GT3, his PC is actually virtually recreating a PS2, something that requires a lot of power, because its emulating all of its propetairy hardware. That virtualization is then running the game that you see here. He can play it in 1080p, because his modern PC far outstrips the 13+ console in power but thats only because its so powerful.

The PS4 could probably software emulate the PS2 at 30 FPS in most games, but it doesn't have enough power to even begin to software emulate 360 games let alone that of PS3's.

NOT TO MENTION THE FACT: that if a game is incompatible with your emulator, it will be buggy at best and flat out not even run at worst.

i.e Paper Mario 64 (Dolphin)

i.e Xenoblade (Dolphin) - newish game but on Wii Hardware, basically GC 1.5 in terms of power differential

If BC was included then maybe we wouldn't have seen a pile of last gen remasters.

I have two Gamecube games, but never owned a Gamecube. I have one GBA game, but never owned a GBA. Backwards compatability gives you a greater library to choose from.

Unfortunately,

PS3 and to some degree the 360, showed that people didn't really care about BC in general

The amount of Sales gained from including BC would be dwarfed by the cost of including it (unless the architecture remained the same), but then power differential would be a further bane on sales

vs the cost of a Last gen remaster being dwarfed by the profits of that remaster

its simply a matter of money.

Even the Wii didn't sell on BC, although my most played game on the system is Super Smash Bros Melee.

This question is pretty outdated. Even so, a lot of people don't care about it anymore.
With the release of the Ps3 it was an issue because the ps2 was bc and we were missing out on something.

There were some threads back then where people actually cared about bc.