Until then, the GamePad is no use for Virtual Console titles.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/32474
The Wii U will be receiving its own Virtual Console service in the future, Nintendo's Satoru Iwata confirmed. Until its arrival, however, players cannot expect to be playing Wii and Wii Virtual Console titles on the Wii U GamePad.
As confirmed by our Japan correspondents, a post on NeoGAF's gaming forums quoted Iwata to say "We understand that there are people who were looking to playing Wii games, Virtual Console games, and so forth on the GamePad, but unfortunately we cannot accommodate those users' expectations."
As it stands, Wii Virtual Console titles are only available to play on the Wii U by putting the system into Wii Mode. From there, only accepted Wii controllers are allowed for use.
This really should have been implemented for launch, I wanna be able to play Super Metroid on the Gamepad goddamit!
The Wii U Pro Controller is the same price as the DualShock 3 and Xbox 360 Controller, so I wouldn't call it overpriced.
My questions are, does my Wii VC translate into Wii U VC games, or am I expected to repurchase for the privilege of playing on the tablet?
and also, do my VC games have to already be downloaded on the Wii (prior to transfer) to be playable on the Wii U, or can I download them on the Wii U after the account transfer?
I'm inferring from this that, yeah, this is Nintendo's plan to make us repurchase VC games to get the Gamepad functionality and I suspected that since it was revealed that the VC would be run in the backwards compatible Wii mode. It just fits the corporate culture regarding IP. It's a new system so you buy the games all over again (like you don't get free BluRays to replace your DVDs). I'm not thrilled about that at all, but I won't act like Nintendo are being exceptionally dickheaded here because I figure Sony and MS would do the same thing.
I think this and the fairly restrictive hard drive details have been released this late on purpose in hope that early adopters won't notice or will have already made a pre-order and would not want to back out of it. Both pieces of news are not necessarily positive. Nintendo is often vague and ambiguous when trying to hide something that would not go over all that well if stated clearly.
Do my VC games have to already be downloaded on the Wii (prior to transfer) to be playable on the Wii U, or can I download them on the Wii U after the account transfer?
This is so sloppy and lazy that it's embarrassing. How did Nintendo get something so basic so wrong? No wonder Japan is in decline. They just don't trail-blaze any more.
CHANGE YO NAME MIYAMOTO
CHANGE YO NAME MIYAMOTO
CHANGE YO NAME MIYAMOTO
I think "Haterade" would be appropriate.
Since each game has its own emulator, each game would need its own patch. I imagine they will do that in time, but it's not the most important thing for them to do right now.Each game ships with an emulator, but I believe the emulators are shared on the system level. Nintendo being conservative, they'd probably want to test all the games individually with a new update though.
I assume you mean updated to be played on the GamePad, because we already know you can transfer WiiWare games to Wii U (though they will be played in Wii mode).
