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[–] morphballganon -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No shit.

Every 5 years, chodes expect each new Nintendo console to be a copy + paste of the previous one.

It's never happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Except no one expected the Wii U successor to be the same. The Nintendo switch leaks came years before the release, when it was still known under the codename "NX", and they were 100% accurate

[–] icecreamtaco 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
  • SNES
  • Every handheld console except for the DS and Switch was a copypaste + upgrade from the last one. GB Pocket, GB Color, GB Advance, GBA SP, GBA Micro, DS Lite, 3DS, 2DS, New 3DS, 3DS XL
[–] amon 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Every handheld console except for the DS

I'm sorry but it is quite literally a GBA with an additional touchscreen and an ARM9 processor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You’re dismissing that way too easily. A dual screen handheld was pretty game changing and not to mention touchscreen was not a standard back then.

[–] amon 1 points 9 hours ago

Fair enough, I have one and it is really ahead of the time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"The new console unfortunately is not backwards-compatible." -> riots

...versus...

"The new console is backwards-compatible because it's an upgraded version of the old console." -> riots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

You can be backwards compatible without just being a hardware revision. Look at the Wii, while it's definitely built on the GameCube, it has many more features

[–] ampersandrew 7 points 1 day ago

This time it did.