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Here’s why your Nintendo Wii still connects to your router. Here’s why your Nintendo Wii still connects to your router. My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data ...

The advantages of designing in backward and forward compatibility. The role of interfaces, formats, standards, APIs, etc., in achieving backward and forward compatibility. How subsystem and system ...

The patent in question was brought up by RespawnFirst over the weekend, but we retrieved the actual link this morning. Reading through the technical jargon, Sony says that it has invented a new system ...

Nintendo has not yet announced whether its next console — which we’re calling “Switch 2” for now — will be backward-compatible. Its silence on the issue doesn’t signify anything, necessarily, since it ...

Sony has given its strongest indication yet that it may be looking at PS3 backwards compatibility for the PS5, with the format holder filing a patent titled, Backward Compatibility Testing of Software ...

Microsoft announced backward compatibility for Xbox One at E3 2015. See for yourself what the Xbox One and Xbox 360 look like in this gameplay comparison using Xbox One's Preview Program.