Here’s why your Nintendo Wii still connects to your router ... My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations ...

Backward compatibility when a new console like the ... in order to make backward compatibility possible. Both the 3DS and Wii U shared some hardware with their predecessors, making it possible ...

an online Q&A revealed that the new system’s backward compatibility doesn’t work like prior Nintendo consoles. While the 3DS included DS hardware to play old games and the Wii U included Wii ...

With past backwards-compatible systems, like the Game Boy Color and Advance, DS family, and Wii / Wii U, playing older games was simple because the new console included hardware from the previous ...

Kawamoto adds to that: "Simply put, those systems were compatible because Nintendo 3DS contained Nintendo DS hardware, and ...