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Any hope left?

Yes, they will appear 28 38.36%
 
Maybe, wouldn't say no 23 31.51%
 
lol nuh 8 10.96%
 
Well, maybe N64 10 13.70%
 
Well, maybe GC 4 5.48%
 
Total:73
SjOne on 14 January 2015
spemanig said:
SjOne said:
They work in mysterious ways. They'd put GBA and DS games on Wii U before they do so on 3DS


I think there's a very specific reason for that.


Seems more like a way to pad its drought period than anything reasonable



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Frogger on 14 January 2015
SjOne said:

Seems more like a way to pad its drought period than anything reasonable


Nah man. It's setting up an infrastructure for the next handheld. If the next unified platform uses a variation of the Wii U's architecture, it makes sense to put those VC games on the that instead of the 3DS.



618116 on 14 January 2015

Gamecube titles can be run nativly on Wii U, in Wii mode. Now Wii U can run wii titles without Wii mode, so Gamecube titles also can be run.



AZWification on 15 January 2015

I'd say that both N64 and GC games will appear on the VC sometime in the near future!



                
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Jumpin on 15 January 2015

There's maybe 5 or 6 worthwhile N64 titles, but I can't even think of a single game on GameCube I would want to play.



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captain carot on 15 January 2015

F-Zero GX, Wave Race Blue Storm, actually Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 1 and 2 as well as Pikmin, because for me Wiimote absolutely sucks (and makes real Off-TV impossible) and other games. There's a ton of GC games i'd love to see on Wii U. Though some of them will never be released on VC due to bankrupt dev/publisher, expired licenses and so on. Or just because the publisher shows no interest.



SjOne on 15 January 2015
spemanig said:
SjOne said:

Seems more like a way to pad its drought period than anything reasonable


Nah man. It's setting up an infrastructure for the next handheld. If the next unified platform uses a variation of the Wii U's architecture, it makes sense to put those VC games on the that instead of the 3DS.


I don't see why they just can't uing the service now and save us the trouble 



the_dengle on 15 January 2015

There's no simple solution for simulating the GameCube's analogue shoulder buttons on a Wii U controller, so I don't see it happening. The controls simply aren't compatible and it would be silly to require you to have an adapter to play Virtual Console games.

N64 games are just a matter of time though.



Frogger on 15 January 2015
SjOne said:


I don't see why they just can't uing the service now and save us the trouble 


What??



captain carot on 15 January 2015
the_dengle said:
There's no simple solution for simulating the GameCube's analogue shoulder buttons on a Wii U controller, so I don't see it happening. The controls simply aren't compatible and it would be silly to require you to have an adapter to play Virtual Console games.

N64 games are just a matter of time though.


1. It was Nintendo that didn't go for analogue triggers on Wii U

2. Not every GC game actually uses the shoulder buttons analogue

 

So this is Nintendos own failure and at the same time no excuse to bring zero GC games.