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 ...

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 ...