| Train wreck said: Not to be an ass, since im getting the system anyway Sunday, but a lot of this information should have been given out months ago. They are kinda big. The external harddrive that you use takes up two USB slots on the system. The OS out the box is half the size for the Basic system No USB flash drives |
Only the external units that are powered via USB but this is often the case with these type of USB hard drives regardless of the system it's plugged into. External units that plug into the wall will only need 1 USB port.
| Crono141 said: It seems we'll have to rely on the hacker community again to get features working that Nintendo was unable or unwilling to include in the system themselves. There is no good reason you can't use WiiWare/VC titles on the second screen other than "Nintendo didn't want you to." Maybe it stems from how they decided to do Wii B/C (similar to how they did GC bc on the Wii), but if that was the case, then they should have changed how they handled BC so that they could deliver on what seems to the average end user as a no brainer. |
This is correct. The "Wii" system inside, as it were, is sandboxed or isolated away from the higher Wii U functionality to prevent a lot of the Wii exploits from working on the Wii U.
It's possible that the Wii U Virtual Console may allow you to link any Wii Virtual Console games you already own so that you may be able to download for free the updated Wii U version which would have GamePad functionality.
Remeber that Virtual Console is actually an emulator system and those emulators on Wii were not developed with Wii U functionality in mind.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
