• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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.

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

          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.