Will the Wii U ever be able to DL Gamecube Games

Just curious if anyone knows or not. Thanks.

Nintendo hasn't said anything about it. So this is only my personal speculation.

The Wii U is on the way out in a couple years, and Nintendo are doing a big overhaul with their networking (with DeNA). Given these facts, I'd imagine that GCN Virtual Console support will probably be seen on the NX (Nintendo's next generation hardware).

Cool thanks

If NX has some sort of unifying service, then maybe it will allow people to stream Gamecube games or something. Idk, no clue. There were a lot of great games on the Gamecube though. Lately I've been itching to play these games again:

The sad thing is, the Wii U hardware is able to play Gamecube games natively (in Wii Mode); there's just no support for it at a software/OS level and the disc drive isn't able to handle the smaller physical discs. Homebrew projects like Nintendon't have proven this.

Nintendo is fairly obtuse when it comes to VC releases, however. Just because it makes sense (GBA on 3DS, SNES on 3DS, GC on Wii U) doesn't mean it'll happen. I was honestly surprised that they finally got around to bringing N64 games to the Wii U.

The main argument against GC games would be the controller compatibility, but it's just a small issue. The Gamecube had pressure-sensitive analog L and R buttons, whereas the Wii U has plain old digital L/R/zL/zR buttons. For many games, this isn't used at all, but some games (such as Super Mario Sunshine) actually take advantage of these analog triggers and they would not work right on the Wii U Gamepad/Pro Controller. The obvious solution to this is the Smash Bros Gamecube Controller adapter, but they are extremely hard to find and I can see Nintendo scrapping the whole GC VC idea over something as simple as requiring a special adapter and older controller to play some games. They may also not like the fact that requiring the GC adapter would mean that the games couldn't be played with the Gamepad alone. Granted, there's precedent of allowing such game-specific controller requirements in the Wii era (some games support the Wii mote, some games need the Classic/GC controllers), but when we're talkiing about Nintendo and business decisions, logic and prior precedent aren't generally applicable.

I sure hope they would, Gamecube had the best games

i dont think it will happen.

they are probably going to do remakes out of them like windwaker HD and sony&xbox are doing.

maybe next gen or the NX will.

If the Wii U had done better, they probably would have. Right now it doesn't seem likely.

Not like they would put timesplitters on vc lol

Most likely not, we just got Nintendo 64 and GBA, next will be Gamecube and DS, i think they are getting prepared since these will be kinda big. Next Gen would be perfect since 3DS is still out.

Shame that, some of it's most memorable games for me are third party titles. (oddly enough I felt the same way about the N64, another Nintendo system not known for it's third party game support) I am itching like all get out to play Killer 7, Viewtiful Joe, and PN03 again. I really want Henshin a Go-Go Baby! to be a thing again.

I miss that.