I miss Mr. Iwata.

I'm hoping for GameCube games on VC.

Well, it's not a secret that Nintendo hates backwards compatibility.

I am greedy, I want both.

I think you're confusing VC with BC.

VC currently goes up through N64 and the rumor was adding GC to that list of support, which is certainly possible if they've built an emulator that would work on Switch.

Putting Wii or WiiU games would be more like what they did on WiiU with Wii games. These are cases where they just ported the past game to the new console. Mostly commonly as a digital title. I bought Metroid Prime Trilogy that way and its awesome.

I think what this does is solidify the notion that even digital games are not going to be BC on NS. Where previously there was a possibility as they only stated physical BC. To me, this quote is more encompassing of a total no BC approach for any past system content.

Considering they also haven't talked about VC yet, I'm giving up on my hope that VC titles would just move over this time and instead think if/when VC is announced we'll see new features and thus a cost associated. Hopefully, this will be similar to WiiU and a low cost with decent new features (online play?). I do hope that it doesn't rollout slowly again. You'd think the core emulation and functionality could just be extended easily with whatever new feature they were adding. Also hope they don't keep losing fidelity from the original game.

I really hope you are joking with this right?

Nah, it is pretty obvious that BC is impossible: The machine has no ports that would allow for physical media, and the architecture is so incredibly different that the only way they could do it without emulation would to have a segment of the SOC dedicated to the other systems (space that could instead host CUDA or ARM cores).

Given that BC is impossible, the only thing left to discuss is emulation and how they can improve the end user experience.

I hope we get 1080p Gamecube games.

You'll get 480p GC games and you'll like it.

You know me so well...
Won't look half bad on a 6.2" screen.
Curl up into a ball and play some Smash.

I hope extra Joycon will remedy that failing.