No, you’re remembering wrong, you could transfer your Wii save data to your Wii U and play your Wii virtual console games on your Wii U from the Wii dashboard. The catch was just that it wasn’t copied from your Wii, it was completely transferred, so you couldn’t play your VC games on your old Wii anymore.

I don’t think it’ll be “just” a Switch Pro, but I don’t think it’ll totally reinvent the wheel. I expect something like the DS -> 3DS, where it’s mostly a performance upgrade but with a few gimmicks/tweaks to set it apart.

The wii player base is the same as the wii u

When I say “consoles” I meant handheld and home consoles, not just home consoles

The Switch didn’t because the Wii U playerbase was tiny and the form factor/physical media weren’t compatible. It was a necessary evil. Unless Nintendo decides to eliminate this phenomenally successful form factor that they merged their handheld and TV console divisions to make, there’s no reason to think that’ll…

Requiring internet for a system that’s built around being portable is a nonsensical idea

That’s not nothing, especially coming from a company that has historically been happy to try completely new things from one console cycle to the next and get players to buy games they already own all over again on new platforms.

The Swatch is the handheld version, the TV version is the Stitch

You partially have to hope you get lucky and managed to think like the creator.

On the TV show you do have to guess the connections, but that’s probably hard to make a computer score

One category that has 5 answers but one of the answers belongs to a different group?

You’re right, there were digital games on the Wii U, but it wouldn’t be simple. For one the backwards compatibility would have to be digital only, so it’s already cutting out a huge percentage of the already small Wii U player base that could take advantage of it. Also, the Wii U is meant to be on 2 screens and…

A lot of non-gamer people thought it was an accessory add-on.

Yeah it’s weird that they didn’t just build a disc reader into a cartridge-based console for backwards compatibility with one of their biggest failures, definitely shows that there’ll never be backwards compatibility again

My question is, will games be transferrable from one Switch to the Switch 2

Nintendo is the master of unforced errors and nobody would have expected a complete disaster to follow the raging success of the Wii either.

Even when a reddit community is fairly reasonable about discussions it still feels like they end up much more on the cynical/negative side of opinions, especially around the launch of a game.

Interesting, they sometimes pull/delist trailers/directs when they’re getting ready for a new announcement but it seems like a bad move to announce it right before their final holiday push for the Switch. Does seem to be another piece of evidence of a reveal in the next several months though. I suspect it’ll be…

Exactly, it’s easy to say something is “getting a pass” because it sells well, but it’s possible to enjoy something while still acknowledging its flaws, even major flaws. It got the worst reviews of any new generation of Pokemon by far, bad enough that they even publicly apologized for the quality. I don’t really think…

Every game has things that look a little awkward if you look at them too closely. The King Kong game would be fine if something of this caliber were the worst thing wrong with its animations.