I hate to say it, N5 will be backwards compatible

[Jonbo298]

Exactly what I was thinking. Nearly every CD/DVD Rom drive has that smaller notch for miniature versions of the discs. Who says Nintendo is staying mini. I think they are gonna go with a format that is about the same size as blu ray discs because they need to keep up with size comparisons otherwise companies will stay away or make little video clips in games look crap compared to other consoles.

And they don't have to go with the same memory card format. They can have some kind of converter and could put your saves on another format that Nintendo will probably support (something like SD cards, etc...) and then just copy files to it and play Gamecube games on it.

And who knows what Nintendo is doing next gen with their console. They are gonna learn from the things the other companies did this gen. and fix what they didn't do. Since this is the first console that doesn't have Yamauchi, the man who doesn't think there isn't competition, Iwata will hopefully listen to the industry and not try and go too far in one direction but still keep that Nintendo look/feel.