Why would Super Smash Bros 4 come out for NX when NX will back backwards compatibility?

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Frogger on 18 May 2016

teigaga said:

N64 and Gamecube says hi! BC made sense with Wii because it was just kind of just an overclocked gamecube. It was also a risk so made sense they played it safe when it came to catring to fans. Made sense with Wii U as they wanted to carry over Wii's 100m audience...

The NX may not feature a disc drive, in which case BC won't be built into the hardware and instead will come in the form of digital software down the line.

Wii U doesn't have many games so instead of incurring the cost of emulation, why not make money from the 3-4 games that people will actually want to play and release them as remasters.

Wii U games won't sell NX hardware, so why not repackage of them as NX titles to help push the system and its presence in stores etc.

This is a goldmine of wrong.

First with the Wii/GCN comparison, Nintendo specifically referenced this hardware transition as their only positive one, and specifically said that they aimed to replicate that by absorbing the Wii U's architecture. It didn't just "make sense" then. According to Nintendo, it "makes sense" now.

A disc drive has absolutely nothing to do with BC. You can have BC with no disc drive. It would just not allow for physical BC, which doesn't matter on digital-only platform. Digital games would still transfer over.

Wii U has hundreds of legacy games from their past platforms that cost them a lot of money to produce. BC let's them continue selling those games and building on that instead of needing to spend another 3 years of time, money, and recourses building it from scratch once again when they're better surved adding more VC games. BC doesn't only effect Wii U exclusives.

No one thing will sell NX hardware. That's such a shallow argument to make. "Why not" is because repackaging a bunch of Wii U games costs time, money, and resources. That's an absolute waste when the alternative is having those games available day one on the marketplace. BC means something completely different on a digital platform then it ever did on a physical on, so I understand why this concept is so alien to everyone here. BC is a means to an end here. That end is not "play your old games on your new system." It's "our marketplace has games from all generations that you can buy day 1."

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CarcharodonKraz on 21 May 2016

i highly doubt it will be BC. it will raise the cost of the console while failing to push unit sales. A rival company hit the nail on the head when they said "people don't buy new gen systems to play older games". The wii, ps2, wii-u, and ds spoiled the consumer to the point that they think it is now just "a standard feature". That's just not the case.