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I've always been loyal to Nintendo because of the backwards compatibility.  You invest so much time and money into gaming.  I always loved that I could still play my old games on my new system.  
I think they made the switch to digital to save on the cost of adding the extra ports.  Mostly everything is digital these days, so I'm not super upset they switched it for the Switch.
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Technically not, physically it's not backwards compatible but digitally it is. You can still play games from the N64, NES, SNES. It's just a bit limited but I think it shows the potential possibilities >

Yeah I know I explained it in another comments that I published, seeing that a lot of persons didn't understood what I meant originally >

It is definitely unfortunate that you can't play older console games on the switch definitely, but that seems to be a theme with gaming lately >

The switch has a lot of retro games available for it. 
Or you can modify it and play tons of emulated games. >

Yeah I know that you can mod your Switch so that you can play other games on it but what I meant was without the online or any modification to the console >

Gamecube was not retrocompatible in any meaningful way. The previous generation was N64 and if you bought a game to play on N64, you could not use it with a gamecube. I don't think there's any accessory that would allow you to plug an n64 cart into a gamecube. >

are you sure I thought there was something that you could put on your gamecube to play Gameboy's cartridge