Wii U Virtual Console launches this spring

January 23, 2013 6:21AM PST

By Eddie Makuch, News Editor

Nintendo reveals new virtual marketplace for high-definition system; NES and SNES games to be available at launch, with GBA titles coming later.

Today during a Nintendo Direct presentation, president Satoru Iwata announced that the Wii U will introduce a Virtual Console this spring. At launch, players will be able to download Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System games, though Game Boy Advance titles will be added at a later date.

 

In addition, Nintendo said there will be "special pricing" options for those who already own Wii versions of Virtual Console titles. This is $1 for NES games and $1.50 for SNES games.

Wii U Virtual Console titles will allow players to save game progress. Additionally, they can be played on the Wii U GamePad and will feature support for Miiverse.

Nintendo is going to get torn to shreds for making people re-buy downloadable content. Really a stupid stupid move, just let ppl transfer the games!! Basically charging ppl so they dont have to go into "wii" mode to access the games. I hope Sony and Microsoft dont try to follow this lead,

You can either play them in Wii mode, or pay a fee and you can play them on the Gamepad and get access to Miiverse.

You'll have to excuse my french, but I was f***ing pissed that not only do we not get the VC service until spring, and not only are we asked to pay a fee to get Wii U versions of VC titles we already have on Wii, but that they're starting all over again from scratch with NES and SNES titles.

It will take *forever* for them to get to GameCube titles.

I red somewhere that Japan is getting Earthbound on their N-Direct and for 30 yen.

People are really tripping out over $1-$2?

-_-

Well a lot of that probably has to deal with that they are putting it on the gamepad as well.  That probably takes some amount of coding although I'm not sure.  Just a guess.

welcome to the new world of digital content... i hope sony and ms don't go the same way with already bought digital content...

Even if I don't like the idea of paying, it isn't bad at all and I'm not planning to upgrade every game anyway. But are the games still attached to the console? So if my console broke down I loose all the games I bought? And, are there going to be new VC games available for Wii? or every release will now be for Wii U only?

So they want a buck to use a smaller screen and post on Gamefaqs?