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bunchanumbers said:
Nintendo should have all the tools to emulate Wii U BC without issue. Xbox One manages to do it with 360 and that is a much smaller gap in hardware. I trust Nintendo engineers. They will find a way to make it happen through emulation.

Providing that they have an adequate hardware to make that happen of course ... 



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fatslob-:O said:
bunchanumbers said:
Nintendo should have all the tools to emulate Wii U BC without issue. Xbox One manages to do it with 360 and that is a much smaller gap in hardware. I trust Nintendo engineers. They will find a way to make it happen through emulation.

Providing that they have an adequate hardware to make that happen of course ... 


It will. I'm not concerned about that in the least. If they were already discussing emulating Android, then I'm sure they are planning on doing a lot of things through emulation.



bunchanumbers said:

It will. I'm not concerned about that in the least. If they were already discussing emulating Android, then I'm sure they are planning on doing a lot of things through emulation.

You don't know that since the hardware has yet to be shipped ... 

@Bold Source ? 

Describing Xbox One backwards compatibility as "emulation" is misleading when the engineers are doing some clear modifications to the game binaries ...

Unless Nintendo can go on a hiring spree to get at least 200 more engineers or license a beefy CPU from Intel (they are quite pricey for a console) you can't be certain there will be backwards compatibility providing their new platform is technically different from it's last one ...



http://wiiudaily.com/2015/06/nintendo-nx-may-emulate-android-games/

If they're willing to go this far I think that emulating BC will be in the future. I just doubt that Nintendo will give up BC especially if a fusion idea is happening. The DeNA account system will tell us a lot about the future. Hopefully Cross Buy happens and it is announced for NX as well.



Iwata:

"In this perspective, while we are only going to be able to start this with the next system, it will become important for us to accurately take advantage of what we have done with the Wii U architecture. It of course does not mean that we are going to use exactly the same architecture as Wii U, but we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately. When this happens, home consoles and handheld devices will no longer be completely different, and they will become like brothers in a family of systems."



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Yes, Nintendo knows how many games I've purchased.



bunchanumbers said:
http://wiiudaily.com/2015/06/nintendo-nx-may-emulate-android-games/

If they're willing to go this far I think that emulating BC will be in the future. I just doubt that Nintendo will give up BC especially if a fusion idea is happening. The DeNA account system will tell us a lot about the future. Hopefully Cross Buy happens and it is announced for NX as well.

One big flaw in your source ... 

Note how it says "rumor" ... 

Why on earth would Nintendo need to emulate Android and what exactly would Nintendo gain from that ? Even if they do go through the trouble for emulating Android, how are you so certain that they can do the same for the WII U which is probably the higher performant system than an Android ? 

Lastly, what does your doubt have to do with their potential fusion idea ? You do realize that it's practically impossible to emulate the WII U with current mobile technology, right ? 



not sure - probably just using the saving data on Wii U cross checked with code on the actual disc?



Switch!!!

If Nintendo wants the WiiU to be absored by NX, they would have to go for the Cell architecture for the NX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

It's funny because yesterday I read a possible leak on NX from a Nintendo Japanese Employee and she said that that is what Nintendo is planning to do