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

[DaRev]

Viper1 said:

DaRev said:

Viper1 said:

(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.

(1) So they've been working on this problem specifically since the console's inception?  So I understand you completely, you are saying that the entirety of Nintendo console designers have worked on this problem since day 1, worked on it this entire time and still haven't figured out how to do it?

(2) They've done this many times before?   They've rewritten 11 emullators to bypass a host OS sandbox to enable GamePad gameplay?  If I recall correctly, no Wii VC games had access to any of the Wii's higher system functions.  No IR or motion gestures, no nun-chuck, no balance board, no online, etc....   3DS VC...no 3D, no second screen.  So they don't have a history of doing what you suggest at all.

(1) Whether they're been working on this since 2006 or just Yesterday, neither speaks well of Nintendo, considering its a feature they are planning to have available soon.

(2) What they've done before is to get VC games and it can be done on the Gamepad, or else why not say it can't be done. And if it can be done, why not at launch, that's all I'm asking.