Its silence on the issue doesn't signify anything, necessarily, since it hasn't made any public comment about the console. But it has to be backward compatible, right? There's no way Nintendo's engineers can release a console in 2024 without backward compatibility... can they?
One is software emulation, where a more powerful processor runs a program that allows it to pretend to be an older chip running a years-old game. This was beyond the capabilities of most console chipsets until the 2000s.
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