Wii U won't play GC games

[ghost_of_fazz]

Mr Khan said:

ghost_of_fazz said:
This has nothing to do with CPU and GPU compatibility, it's because of the controller ports and memory card slots. Those take a lot of space, and they're not free.

So I'm ok with it.

See, they don't need the controller ports because they can just soft-emulate it now. They couldn't soft-emulate with Wii (and didn't need to), but this one they could just emulate much as they're going to have to emulate Wii

It's the disc drive that's stopping them. That has to be it

OR Nintendo will offer GC games via their online shop, and by disabling backwards compatibility, people will have to buy them from there instead.

This strategy is understandable, GC controllers are hard to find nowadays. And GC games have small sizes. and with modern compression techniques, I wouldn't be surprised if they take less than a GB per game, and they might add some functionality to them or what not.