Backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 means the user can connect the product to any standard computer.
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Additionally, Mattrick claims that players making use of backwards compatibility were a negligible percentage of their consumer base.
They would instead compete on price, ease of use, features and the trade-off between stability and backwards compatibility.
Backwards compatibility has been a sore subject for some gamers but Microsoft's Don Mattrick says the company is looking forward, not back.
Nyko's complementary Playground app will offer backwards compatibility for other Android games and a variety of button-mapping features, including customized controller layout.
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Like other NETGEAR 802.11ac WiFi Routers, its compatibility with next-generation WiFi devices and backwards compatibility with current WiFi devices provides a future-proof solution.
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Regarding backwards compatibility, it seems like that's going to be on a kind of a selective basis from what we gather is that correct?
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata pulled out the stops at his GDC keynote: the Nintendo Revolution will include both backwards compatibility and WiFi features.
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Sony previously yanked its backwards compatibility feature in PlayStation 3 (a feature that, like Nintendo, Sony used as a hyping point to promote the system).
Nintendo used backwards compatibility as a hyping point for the Wii.
We've got to say, the dual-backwards compatibility is pretty sweet.
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Wii U owners can find a tweaked version of the system menu hidden away in the system's backwards compatibility mode, featuring just enough updated code to block existing exploits.
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All of these games are being made for the PS4, and some are also being made for the PlayStation 3 because of lack of backwards compatibility for the new console.
According to a a report from Japan's Ultra One magazine, the PS3 will contain a whole PlayStation 2 chipset inside its massive hulk in order to ensure backwards compatibility.
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With Nintendo struggling to juggle Wii games on the Wii U and Sony's Playstation 4 abandoning current gen PSN games, it looks like backwards compatibility is a thing of the past.
We also still don't know how much the Xbox 360 is going to cost, an exact release date, what kinds of configurations it will have, and, of course the big question: will it have backwards compatibility?
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Other the past year or so we've gotten plenty of conflicting reports about backwards compatibility it's no secret that there are some emulation "issues" involved but the Inq seems to think that Microsoft might have figured this one out.
For Wii owners, backwards compatibility of games and accessories makes the Wii U an affordable upgrade to HD, allowing them to keep their game library but giving them access to more third-party titles and new HD first-party titles.
He does the backwards compatibility thing.
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For all of Google's emphasis on integrating its own services across Android, playing YouTube videos outside of the official YouTube app has usually required losing some piece of the experience, whether it's backwards compatibility, mobile optimization or just keeping viewers in the same app where they started.
Today's Sony PS3 unveiling has opened up a world of questions regarding how Microsoft expects to maintain a competitive edge against a system that will supposedly have more than double the raw processing power, a next-gen media drive (Blu-ray, in this case), two-generation backwards compatibility, and even support for 1080p hi-def.
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