Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic With A Hat
The fact that they're making a "classic shell" says to me like they're admitting they know this thing won't be popular before it's even out. Yeah, they say it's because of retro games, but that's obviously PR spin. Retro games should not be the main selling/focus point of a brand new console, especially at this stage in its development, and if they are, it just shows how little faith Nintendo has in its new crop of games. Not good.
Actually, if you read the article I posted, that was also made so that developers could make cross-platform ports and not have to worry about how to get it to work with the radically different style.