Lazycoder

When Nintendo says backwards compatibility

they mean BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY.

via Joystiq

?ÄùBackward compatibility: the disc drive will accept Gamecube games. We have designed Revolution to be a virtual console, enabling it to download 20 years of Nintendo content. … It is the gaming experience that will most separate Revolution from its competitors.?Äù This is huge! It will have built in emulation for NES, SNES, N64, as well as being able to read and play GameCube games! This completely trumps Sony?Äôs two-gen backwards compatitibility in the PS3.

That explains why they made this statement early on.

Now I know many of you walked in here today with numbers swimming in your heads. …. We?Äôd like to add one more number to the mix, and that number is ?Äú2?Äù, as in two billion games. That?Äôs the number of games Nintendo has sold since we entered the business 20 years ago. …. If you?Äôre ready to move beyond pure numbers to a place where your right brain can envision the best in innovation ?Ķ. you?Äôve come to the right place.?Äù

So the Nintendo Revolution will ship with a library 2 billion games strong.(ed. It doesn’t ship with 2 billion games. I need to learn to read. RIF) Wow. A WiFi version of Final Fantasy? How will that work? The Gameboy Micro looks sweeeeeeeet. If it comes in under $100 I’ll have to consider it. If it comes in under $70 I’ll trade in my GBA SP on release day.