Can someone explain why I can't play Virtual Console games on the Wii U Gamepad?

[DaRev]

Viper1 said:

DaRev said:

The fact that they realise that it's a no brainer to have that feature and they didn't include it, but will later, doesn't speak well on Nintendo's part. That's all I'm saying. Because you do not make a console with the capabilities of the Wii U and just leave out, to add later, a very desired feature of the console.

(1) Whatever VC they have planned for the Wii U, should have been available at launch, again, this is a no brainer, just like the system being able to use at least two Gamepads. (2) The latter feature is built in, so why something as 'simple' a a new, reused, or even stiched-up VC for the Gamepad couldn't be included at launch is beyond me. (3) So six months later we're all suppose to be excited that the Wii U can finally play VC games on the Gamepad?

Yes there maybe a lot of factors why they didn't impliment the feature, (4) but I believe that none would be significant enough to justify not including the feature at launch, while hoping to release it in the near future. Maybe they are not being lazy, maybe there're just being Nintendo! And we all know what that means

(1) OK, so they should just have delayed the entire Wii U launch until they had the VC ready?  Would you prefer that instead?  Or maybe a half assed VC system that hasn't been thoroughly tested yet?  That better?

(2) Simple?  Please, code up the emulators for us right now so we can show Nintendo how simple it is.

(3) 3DS gained VC in under 4 months.    And by all, you only mean the small percentage of total console owners that will buy it between launch and implementation.   If you are so damn hell bent on this being an issue, wait 3-4 months before you buy yours.

(4) Meaning you have no idea why it's not there at launch so you're going to make baseless claims and just make up stuff.

(1) Dude, they've been designing the Wii U for YEARS, and the ultimate focus is playing games on the gamepad. With that being true, VC games on the gamepad should have been figured out a long time ago, if the selling point of the Wii U is games on the Gamepad. You trying to tell me its taken Nintendo since the inception of the Wii U to try and figure out how to get VC on the Gampad, and somehow they just can't get it done? Or are you saying they though about it yesterday and didn't have time to do it right before launch?

(2) I don't have to, Nintendo has already done this many times and knows how to do it. Why they haven't done it for the Wii U is the million dollar question.

(3) Not having VC games on the Gampad is not a deal breaker for me - it's just a major disappointment. So I will be picking-up my Wii U tomorrow!

(4) I'm not making stuff up, I'm having an opinion, based on the fact that you cannot play VC games on the Gamepad at launch. My 'claims' are no more baseless than yours that try to justify why the feature was left out.