Wii U won't play GC games

[theRepublic]

kain_kusanagi said:

theRepublic said:

kain_kusanagi said:

I'd prefer it if all consoles where backwards compatible with all previous versions no matter how many slots and disc drives they have to have to play everything. Just think how great it would be if you could have one Nintendo consoles that played 25 years worth of games without having to rebuy the games you have sitting on a shelf.

That console would be big, ugly, and expensive.

Big, ugly, and useful, but not necessarily too expensive.

Yes it would be expensive.  Putting all those controller, game, and memory card connections in costs money.  The older they are, the more rare and expensive it would be.