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Nintendo Switch 2 Will Be A "Conservative Hardware Evolution"; To Feature Full Backward Compatibility, 1080p Screen (wccftech.com)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Last time they tried a slight upgrade to not rock the boat and maintain backward compatibility was the WiiU.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That was the Wii actually. It being a slightly up clocked Gamecube. The WiiU was a massive hardware upgrade from the Wii at the time. The WiiU just had a host of other problems.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The Wii: Two GameCube glued together with funky remote controllers

The Wii U: Two Wii glued together with a funky remote controller... With a screen!

You can play GameCube games on the Wii U via USB by hacking the Wii part of the console, Nintendo just had a little bit more work to do to make it natively compatible...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Nah, the Wii wasn’t even two GC glued together. It was really just an overlocked GC. When you play GC games on Wii, the hardware clocks down and the Wii becomes a gamecube.

The reason why the Wii U can do that as well, is because in adition to it’s own hardware, all the necessary Wii hardware is also on board. It’s less a Wii mode than a built in Wii.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Eh yes but they really rocked the boat with the Wii going to motion wands and those Wii characters.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The article is "Conservative Hardware Evolution". Emphasis mine. The Switch2 will also be a conservative hardware evolution, exactly like the Wii. The Wii's hardware was extremely conservative, already ancient upon release. Rocked 0 boats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Controllers are hardware too

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Peripherals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Peripherals are hardware. Hardware literally means “the physical components of an electronic system” and last I checked, you can touch a controller.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The WiiU was one of my favourite consoles.