BC saves Nintendo the time and money it takes to actually port these games, while allowing them to still make money on them. BC is the smarter business decision. It allows them to keep making money on hundreds of old games without having to port a single one from day one, and it means that they can keep adding to the VC rather than needing to start from scratch once again. It's not even comparable.

I don't think the cost of porting like 10-15 games is all that huge and the ports pay for themselves when people have to buy them again (or for the first time). Ubi Soft ported Zombi U to PS4/XB1 with zero fuss and that's a game that has limited/no market. Sony and MS themselves will probably end up porting 7-12 different 360 or PS3 projects to PS4 and XB1 it's kinda par for the course now. 

You make a deal with IBM for PowerPC that's something you're eating for the next 5-6-10 years. 

Nintendo needs to get their manufacturing act together in general, they've made a lot of stupid decisions with hardware choices/vendors that have probably fucked them more than the "average game enthusiast" knows. Right now I think they're being absolutely screwed on the Wii U's eDRAM for example, only one factory on the planet can make it and it's now owned by Sony. 

This is probably why Nintendo has been unable to drop the price on the Wii U significantly ... the vendor suppliers are not willing to help them out because from their POV why should they eat a loss on a component on a platform that isn't going anywhere. 

That's what happens when you use ancient/weird/out of order components in your hardware. The NX from what is described should be able to emulate every from the NES-Wii, the Wii U has like 12-13 games really worth remembering and a non-existent third party catalog. 

Truth be told I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo takes a page from the Netflix/Playstation Live book and simply just offers VC games ala carte on a monthly subscription service. 

Nintendo hates bottlenecks? Wii U CPU says hello.

Tagging.

Gonna read it later when I have time.

It's not just 15 games. It's also every single VC game that they'd need to port again, including from the Wii. That's over a hundred games. They're going with BC. All of the benefits of remasters, with none of the cost or waste of time and resources. No subscription, either. Goes completely against My Nintendo. Not happening. They want you buying their software.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was describing - 7870 (Pitcairn XT) with all CUs running at 1000MHz is 2.5TFLOPS...though, given the number of ACEs, PS4 looks more like Hawaii Pro (R9 290) cut in half, then 2CUs disabled, but more or less similar thing...anyway, my guess is, if Nintendo haven't decided to go berserk and get the latest from AMD, NX tech could be very similar to PS4s, just with full GPU, maybe newer CPU part and higher clocks.

I wouldn't be happy if it's only a 2.5 Teraflop Radeon GPU.
Would much rather something closer to 4 Teraflop GCN 1.2 GPU.

Polaris is only months away... And 14/16nm fabrication would be quick to transition to, making a big GPU feasible... Am I hoping to much as a PC gamer?
With a bigger GPU they wouldn't need to release a successor for a longer time with some luck.

It is Nintendo though lets be honest even 1.8 TFLOPS would probably be more than enough for virtually any game they make, the new Zelda is 300 GFLOPS or so and looks absolutely gorgeous with an enormous scale. 

2.5 TFLOPS would be fine, but they need to understand they are launching very late here and they likely are going to have to deal with things like the PS4K, PS5, and XB2 maybe sooner than they think. 

So upgradable hardware I think would be well suited for them, maybe in 2-3 years have a 14nm version at a higher spec and allow older models to be upgraded. 

You are expecting too much, we won't have the benefit of cheaper transistors ... 

This all sound realistic.