Wii U Virtual Console Coming in the Future

[sethnintendo]

mai said:

Viper1 said:
I suspect it can't because the Wii Virtual Console is actually an emulator which naturally never had any Wii U functionality in mind when it was designed. It also seems that all Wii functions are sandboxed away from the higher Wii U level systems to prevent older Wii exploits. It's also probably a lot easier to enable Wii features in their own software environment rather than try to fully integrate it directly into the Wii U software environment.

They did it with GC mode on Wii, so this was expected. But porting Wii emulators to Wii U is not a big deal, I can imagine if exisitng Wii homebrew scene would have full access to Wii U OS they could do it in blink of an eye.

My Wii is practically a emu-machine right now, shared between legally obtained VC games and not so legal emualtion (I do play games I own though... mostly :D ). Damn Ninty, I takes ages before every next VC update and now it's practically dead.

I did notice that they made you do a Wii update when visiting the Wii Shop Channel a few days ago. I suppose this update is just another "counter" against the homebrewers/hacked systems?  I don't see any info about the recent update on their update history page.

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/gi_settings.jsp?menu=update&submenu=rvl-gi-sett-update-history