You'll need to re-buy games bought on Wii Virtual Console.

Nintendont have no shame. :P

Sheep, you all okay with this?

Thoughts?

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Nintendo unveils Wii U Virtual Console

You'll need to re-buy games bought on Wii Virtual Console.

Nintendo has announced the Wii U Virtual Console, the service for downloading old games made for old Nintendo machines.

The Wii U Virtual Console is due to launch after a spring system update, but games will take time to appear. You won't get all those games available on the Wii Virtual Console at once.

Wii U Virtual Console titles are being individually re-jigged to include Miiverse functionality and GamePad play, meaning, wince, you'll need to pay to download new versions of games you've already bought. To help this situation there will be a significant discount for anyone buying on the Wii U Virtual Console a game they own on Wii Virtual Console.

The service will initially have NES and SNES games. There was no mention of GameCube titles. Other platforms will follow, including Game Boy Advance for the first time, Iwata said. (Game Boy Advance titles were actually already available to 3DS Ambassadors on 3DS, but oh well).

Before the service launches, Nintendo will offer a number of NES games to try for 30p ($0.30) for 30 days. Titles include Balloon Fight (available today) and Mario & Yoshi.

Miiverse will be expanded with user communities and additional communities for games to avoid posts being buried too quickly. These features will be added around the time of Wii Fit U launch later this year.

Miiverse will also launch on smartphones this spring as a browser-based experience. A full app will arrive at a later date

1 thing sony DIDNT copy from nintendo :cool:campzor

Either fire up Wii mode and play them that way, or pay $1 - $1.50 for Gamepad play.

I see nothing bad about this.

That's really not that bad. Considering most people around here didn't even indulge in virtual console they won't really be having this issue. For people like myself, playing something like Secret of Mana off and on screen certainly isn't a huge deal for 1.50

btw I think the Try the NES games for $.30 for 30 days program ACTUALLY means, the NES games for that Month will be avalible on a discounted price of $.30 for 30 days.

Not pay $.30 for 30 days.

Either fire up Wii mode and play them that way, or pay $1 - $1.50 for Gamepad play.

I see nothing bad about this.

LegatoSkyheart

Ahhh, okay, I see now but still, after the killin they made on Wii, it printed money dontchaknow, :P don't you feel that Nintendo really shouldn't ask you to pay the messily $1.00 ?

Ahhh, okay, I see now but still, after the killin they made on Wii, it printed money dontchaknow, :P don't you feel that Nintendo really shouldn't ask you to pay the messily $1.00 ?

SecretPolice

Ahhh, okay, I see now but still, after the killin they made on Wii, it printed money dontchaknow, :P don't you feel that Nintendo really shouldn't ask you to pay the messily $1.00 ?

SecretPolice

You can still play all your Wii Virtual Console games on your Wii U for FREE. You only need to rebuy them (at $1 apiece) if you want Wii U exclusive features. I wouldn't complain.charizard1605

Ahhh, okay, I see now but still, after the killin they made on Wii, it printed money dontchaknow, :P don't you feel that Nintendo really shouldn't ask you to pay the messily $1.00 ?

SecretPolice

Preferably yes but I mean, if you don't wanna you can still just play in wiimode. I wish the Wiiware games could get off screen modifiers. Man, Lost Winds 1+2 off screen would be godly.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"]You can still play all your Wii Virtual Console games on your Wii U for FREE. You only need to rebuy them (at $1 apiece) if you want Wii U exclusive features. I wouldn't complain.Xaero_Gravity

You can still play all your Wii Virtual Console games on your Wii U for FREE. You only need to rebuy them (at $1 apiece) if you want Wii U exclusive features. I wouldn't complain.charizard1605

Still have over 4000 points on my Wii account,those do transfer too right?MonsieurX

Still have over 4000 points on my Wii account,those do transfer too right?MonsieurX

I believe you can use them on Wii Shop through Wii Mode on Wii U, but not Wii U eShop.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Still have over 4000 points on my Wii account,those do transfer too right?SuperFlakeman

I believe you can use them on Wii Shop through Wii Mode on Wii U, but not Wii U eShop.

Still have over 4000 points on my Wii account,those do transfer too right?MonsieurX

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Still have over 4000 points on my Wii account,those do transfer too right?charizard1605

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]

Ahhh, okay, I see now but still, after the killin they made on Wii, it printed money dontchaknow, :P don't you feel that Nintendo really shouldn't ask you to pay the messily $1.00 ?

ActicEdge

Preferably yes but I mean, if you don't wanna you can still just play in wiimode. I wish the Wiiware games could get off screen modifiers. Man, Lost Winds 1+2 off screen would be godly.

They're on the iPod man.

I got them both for $2.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Still have over 4000 points on my Wii account,those do transfer too right?MonsieurX

You can still play all your Wii Virtual Console games on your Wii U for FREE. You only need to rebuy them (at $1 apiece) if you want Wii U exclusive features. I wouldn't complain.charizard1605

Same here if it was MS they probably charge 10 bucks.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"][QUOTE="charizard1605"] Yes, but ONLY in Wii Mode. charizard1605

Annoying! :evil:

You need to pay to have the extra features with the Wii U. But you can still play them without paying.MonsieurX

This I think. I've already transferred all my Wii VC games to my WiiU. I doubt they're going to lock those games until I pay again.

[QUOTE="ActicEdge"]

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]

Ahhh, okay, I see now but still, after the killin they made on Wii, it printed money dontchaknow, :P don't you feel that Nintendo really shouldn't ask you to pay the messily $1.00 ?

LegatoSkyheart

Preferably yes but I mean, if you don't wanna you can still just play in wiimode. I wish the Wiiware games could get off screen modifiers. Man, Lost Winds 1+2 off screen would be godly.

They're on the iPod man.

I got them both for $2.

With a virtual joystick? I have standards you know :P

Where the hell is lost winds 3 btw frontier?

This seems misleading. Basically what I understand is that the games you already have for Wii VC will have some extra features for Wii U VC and that's what you would pay for.

Basically you have to pay if you want to play it on the gamepad, and use miiverse.layton2012

You don't need to purchase any game to use its Miiverse community.

Basically, you need to pay a small fee to upgrade your old VC game to the Wii U version of it.

Anyone with two brain cells seeing the VC games being locked to the console would have seen this coming a mile away. A smart person would have bought the original game on it's original system and not paid money for a glorified ROM service. I have no problems with it because I won't ever use it, like I did with the original VC.Zeviander

This time you can play all those games on the Wii U gamepad itself, since it has all inputs needed.

Off-TV play is an extremely attractive function, especially since the games will look better on the small screen.

No complaining here.

You can still play all your Wii Virtual Console games on your Wii U for FREE. You only need to rebuy them (at $1 apiece) if you want Wii U exclusive features. I wouldn't complain.charizard1605