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backwards compatibility is pog

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean yeah backwards compatibility is great, but we've seen this before. We lost the GBA slot in the DSI and 3DS. WiiU removed GameCube Disk functionality. They cut backwards compatibility when they stop producing the previous generation's media. This isn't the extension of the Switch's lifespan, it's the beginning of it's death.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The WiiU was a successor console to the Wii, not a midlife refresh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's my point. We lose backward compatibility in the next console.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

maybe altho they seem more keen to work on a single system and have it be more of an upgrade each time. also its worth pointing out that leadership at nintendo has changed quite a bit and they restructured the whole company in 2015 in order to focus on just one system at a time. So who knows. All I can say is its good to have it confirmed that the next system is backwards compatible, because we werent 100% on that.