Nintendo is Better at Backwards Compatibility than Sony

When comparing various implementations of backward compatibility, iTWire noted that Nintendo handles such issues much more better than Sony.
There's still some flamewars raging about whether Sony was right to slash $27 off the costs and drop a hardware implementation of PlayStation 2 software compatibility in its flagman PlayStation 3 console. And while Nintendo was never a poster boy of maintaning an uninterapted user experience, it went a great length to provide a smooth and carefree transition for deprecated platforms users. The Nintendo Wii offers GameCube compatibility to the degree of even offering the slots for existing GameCube controllers.
Nintendo has also delivered a Virtual Arcade that not only offers games from previous Nintendo consoles, but competing old-school games systems in an ever growing library. Yes, you can’t plug your SNES cartridges into the Wii, but even that’s taking backwards compatibility a tad too far. It’s easier to do it in emulation, and Nintendo is able to re-monetize a vast library of their own and other’s gaming content.