archbrix on 14 November 2012
| 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. |
That's the way I understand it from what I've read. We'll have to wait for WiiU's own VC to play classics on the Gamepad screen. The good news is that they will include GC games, and I'd love to be able to play Wind Waker, Viewtiful Joe, etc in that way.
For that very reason, I'll likely keep my Wii VC games on my Wii rather than performing a system transfer to WiiU. There's just something really cool about having a small little box that contains almost 100 classics that I can easily move to any TV and enjoy while my WiiU remains connected to my big screen HDTV.
