I just had a scary thought that Nintendo would probably leave VC play on the Gamepad until they are able to make some big announcement like at E3 2013.

The original emulation on the Wii also had faults. they can usually update it at any time.

That being said, a console emulator on a console would most likely be using VSYNC emulation, in which case, the only difference is the amount of clock cycles between each screen refresh (since the CPU instruction sets between Wii and WiiU CPUs are backward compat). It would be relatively easy to design the already existing emulators because a batch of processing at each VSYNC, followed by pushing the CPU into a looped/sleep state until the following interrupt.

Of course, there would be some cosmetics involved due to diffwerence in timing between the CPU and PPU, but that should have already been resolved with a simple ration pause timer on the Wii version, and would only require some kind of integer change (if it was done correctly).

I pick number 4.

Yes because having VC support straight out of the gate to the gamepad is what everone is buying the Wii U for.

Perhaps they made a decision to focus on actual WiiU games working on the gamepad so when people try it they don't go this thing is a dud.

I have no doubt they will include VC on gamepad later as peopel will demand it.

hahahahaha!!!

OT, dont fret, im sure they will make it available soon, this is all still kinda new to Ninty, hell took a while to get PS1classics up and running on Vita(which i didnt even know when i got hte damn thing) and there are some games still not running on it.

whether people are buying it for that is irrelevant, it is a feature that should be there day 1, but isnt. In this day and age it is a little jarring. This isnt some lets bash Ninty thing, SOny had a similar issue with the Vita and people didnt like taht either, i know I didnt.

wow, gone are the days when you bought a console and it worked for life. No need for software updates or anything, and certainly no RROD issues.

If I was to chose one, I would say Nintendo is being lazy in not including the VC feature for the GP. Because I don't think getting that done is rocket science.

so it can be done before launch

We can only hope...

Lazy.   I'll never get why gamers like to use this word when referring to something not implemented and they don't understand why.

It's like the fall back line for everything.