For everyone that is Team 2024, what is it exactly that you expect Nintendo to show up with at Gamescom? Nintendo hasn't gone to this show in years and it would have been easy for them to pass on it again this year, but they are going this year. Nintendo doesn't not currently have a game dated that wont already be out by the time Gamescom takes place. Are we really to believe Nintendo is going to make the investment to attend this show with a lineup of GameCube remasters and some new DLC? That sounds more like Twitter drop material to me. Even if your confident in no new hardware this year, can we at least agree that it is very odd for Nintendo to decide to return to Gamescom in Switch's seventh year on the market with (currently) no announced and dated games. Until this all changes, I will leave the door open for a late 2023 release
Yep, and its obvious that Nintendo is committed to a smooth transition to their next hardware, and ditching BC would be very foolish. Phil Spencer has gone on record saying that Microsoft is no longer in a position to overtake Sony or Microsoft because gamers became invested in their digital libraries on their preferred consoles during the PS4/Xone generation. He's right too, its harder to migrate to a different platform when you have a large library of games on a different platform. Prior to digital consumers were more accepting of a hard reset with console generations, but in the modern digital world its basically unacceptable. Imagine if Apple locked all your software purchases to the phone that you downloaded them on originally, but Android allowed you to redownload your purchased apps on any device you purchase in the future. This favor Android in a monumental way. Nintendo has a strong history of offering BC on all of its portable devices throughout history and a few of their home consoles supported it as well. Its not just that its important to consumers, its expected.
I feel confident that if a solution for BC wasn't possible with the move to Ampere, Drake would have stuck with Maxwell. A custom SOC using 1024-1536 Maxwell cores matches with 8 A78 CPU cores would still be very capable. Since they have moved to Ampere, it only makes logical sense that Nvidia has solved this problem.