Nintendo DS games coming to Wii U Virtual Console
Nintendo's Satoru Iwata says that DS games will be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console, as part of a company effort to "focus on enriching the value of the GamePad to give momentum to Wii U this year."
The dual-screen experience of the Wii U harkens back to Nintendo's surprise hit, the DS, and the company plans to capitalize on those similarities. At its financial results meeting, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that the company will be bringing DS games to the Virtual Console service on the Wii U.
"We are now sure that we can solve the technical problem of displaying Virtual Console software from Nintendo DS on the GamePad," Iwata said in the briefing. "The dual-screen Nintendo DS, one of which is a touch screen, has a very strong software lineup, and so we plan to add the Virtual Console titles from Nintendo DS software to the future Virtual Console lineup for Wii U."
Iwata said this is part of a larger plan to "focus on enriching the value of the GamePad to give momentum to Wii U this year." He didn't mention which games would be coming to the service by name, though as IGN notes, the presentation slide shows how a game like Brain Age might look on the GamePad.
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Nintendo's Satoru Iwata says that DS games will be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console, as part of a company effort to "focus on enriching the value of the GamePad to give momentum to Wii U this year."-
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They need a unified account and storefront so that anything I buy on the Wii U Virtual Console works on the 3DS VC, and vice versa.
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Look at this man. Let's make him President of Nintendo instead.
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I don't get why they are splitting the store offers like this. It's retarded. It should be Crossbuy anyway.
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Awwwweeesoomeeeeeeee
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Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but... GAMECUBE. DO YOU SPEAK IT.
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This can already be done with hax. You rip your GG game from your original Wii. Then load up the ISO with some loader on the WiiU in vWii mode, I believe. So it's technically possible.
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Yeah, I disapprove of the way they've handled the Virtual Console. It would add so much appeal to their systems for so little effort (compared to actually making a new game). It's baffling.
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And all those companies probably want a release schedule that gives their game a couple of weeks in the spotlight. I can't see how they'd ever agree to 'dump it all out there and let people buy what they want'.
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I've been thinking about this more, and I'm excited about it, but I want Nintendo to release games according to a proper schedule. Back during the first 18-24 months of the Wii's lifecycle, you could set your watch by Virtual Console releases. 9am Pacific on a Monday? VC games. VC games on the Wii U seem so scattershot. Set a schedule, stick to it, and release at least three games on every release day.
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Will both screens be squished onto the GamePad? Because unless they alter the games, that 256x192 resolution is going to look pretty ridiculous on an HDTV.
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Well maybe the pixel-art games will look okay, but the 3D games would have some huge jaggies. Wii games look jagged enough already and that's over double (480p) the vertical resolution of the DS.
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I guess maybe they could jack up the resolution somehow like they did for the N64 games (320i to 480p).
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Y'know, I already use a Wii U Pro controller on the PC. If they did a sort of bundle deal - classic game service along with an easy wireless dongle that supports four pro controllers like I use, I think there's a real possibility there - and one that, being computer based, probably wouldn't cut into their core market too much.
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It is an exciting prospect of doing DS games on the Gamepad.
But what they also need to do is open GBA and DS games for the 3DS eShop, it would be about time since 3DS is soon three years on the market already and still those two are not there.
Also Gamecube and N64 need to be added to the Wii U Virtual Console.
And since Nintendo is changing their strategies it is awesome to hear that they have finally put a dedicated team to work on making the unfiied account system truly non-locked on a single 3DS or Wii U. So that people can easily transfer all their bought stuff to another device. This of course already sucks abit since combining my 3DS and Wii U NNID to be one and the same didn't copy all my account activity from 3DS for some weird reason. Only the stuff that I've bought after unifying the account show up on Wii U. But all the older stuff shows up only on 3DS.
They need to really shift to next gear with the Virtual console and start pumping out 2-4 games per week. -
I see a future with all DS games ported to the WiiU with HD facelifts for some of the most popular games. I also feel this will be key to bringing WiiU sales into the black and save the console.
If this encourages people to make games that use both screens in the same way as a DS we may see an upgrade path for the DS with faster hardware so it will be able to play new WiiU games.
If both consoles upgrades and software publishing feed off one another they will make a killing and see the next iteration of the DS. Maybe a DS dock for the WiiU as well as game transferring and save sharing between both.-
If even just half of my predictions come to fruition I will be a very happy camper, If they are all included in the system my head may explode.
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