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[Hmilne08]

Hey guys new here=P. Ive been searching the interwebs and found that the wii U will not support gamecube games. but Darkcloud1986 or somthin like that on youtube talked about the Wii U store making it kinda like steam where you can just download all the games you want and probably wont need to buy a hard copy. I Love game cube games soo much good memories but i sold a lot of mine a long time ago and only kept my zelda collectors edition and soul caliber. I really want to beat wind waker but i cant find it any where online and on ebay its like $100 for a hard copy. Do you guys think they will put Wind waker on the Wii-u store, and other game cube hits? i have beaten almost all of the zelda games(except for the game boy ones) except for wind waker (in process of beating skyward sword).

[Crackkat]

im sure wind waker will be there and yh DC did say that would be possible

[Hmilne08]

Alright cool, I really like the art style of wind waker so i really want to play it!

[Waluigi]

64 games were on the Wii which was two gens ahead of the 64, and GC will be two gens behind the Wii U. My gut tells me most likely

[Chinomanila]

I too am hoping for Wind Waker to be on the eshop, I'm sure it will be though.

[Blake]

I purchased Wind Waker recently for $20 used. (At GameStop.)
And yes, now I have two copies of it.

[jono]

Wind Waker is my favorite game of all time (at least, until Xenoblade) so if they don't give me a chance to play it on the Wii U... I'll be mad. However, I think a Nintendo rep said that GC titles were coming to the VC, so I expect some of those.

[Joshua]

I thought it was confirmed that GameCube titles will be available for Digital Download for the Wii U?

[Nollog]

It was confirmed by a rep, who doesn't get that kind of information unless they need it, ie when they're installing kiosk's into game stores.
So the rep was just guessing, but using logic they're probably right.

[neverwinteru]

IT BETTER NINTENDO! seriously though they should have this its to be expected by most.

[Mr_Fabel]

I've never played Wind Waker so I hope there will be the possibility to download it!

[Blue22]

I read somewhere they might put on the app store as well.
But they should put gamecube games on there.

[Caius Casshern Sins]

I would buy Wind Waker for the Wii U, especially if it converted to HD

[Hinkik]

Get a big USB HDD then cause one gamecube game is almost always 1.2GB

And also I heard Wii and Wii U games will be for sale also in the "e-shop" and wii games are like 4.7gb and Wii U games are 25gb.

I think I should get a 2tb usb hdd now...

[Andy]

Get a big USB HDD then cause one gamecube game is almost always 1.2GB

And also I heard Wii and Wii U games will be for sale also in the "e-shop" and wii games are like 4.7gb and Wii U games are 25gb.

I think I should get a 2tb usb hdd now...

The disks can hold 25gb. Few if any games are likely to use all 25.

[Link707]

The disks can hold 25gb. Few if any games are likely to use all 25.

Exactly... Nearly 80% of wii games did not even go over 3gb... Though some, like ssbb went up to 8gb

[neverwinteru]

yea but you guys are thinking from the perspective of a wii owner. the 360 has plenty of games that go well over 6gb and they even have multiple titles that need multiple disc, though most were rpg even games like la noire and rage couldn't fit on a single disc for the 360. if the wii is meant to go well beyond the ps3 and 360 than i have to disagree and say their will be plenty of games that go to at least 17 gb. their probably wont be very many games to cap that out at 25 gb.



-Sidenote metal gear solid 4 would still be impossible to do on a single disc for the wii u

Edited by Misterrrrrr ECHO3!, 19 May 2012 - 10:52 AM.

[Usman Mohammad]

yea but you guys are thinking from the perspective of a wii owner. the 360 has plenty of games that go well over 6gb and they even have multiple titles that need multiple disc, though most were rpg even games like la noire and rage couldn't fit on a single disc for the 360. if the wii is meant to go well beyond the ps3 and 360 than i have to disagree and say their will be plenty of games that go to at least 17 gb. their probably wont be very many games to cap that out at 25 gb.



-Sidenote metal gear solid 4 would still be impossible to do on a single disc for the wii u

It would be possbile, the disc would have to be dual layered, they used a dual layered Blu-ray disc for MGS4 and they used a dual layered disc for brawl (the cause for the disc read errors on some consoles).

[CaptainFalco311]

I think that the general consensus here is that the Wii U will be able to download GCN games. My only worries with this are the price and the download times (storage isn't an issue for me, 500 GB USB hard drive ftw).

In regards to pricing, I believe it's currently like this:
NES: 500 Nintendo Points/$4.99 USD
Sega Master System: 600 Nintendo Points/$5.99 USD
TurboGrafx-16: 700 Nintendo Points/$6.99 USD
Sega Genesis/Sega Mega Drive: 800 Nintendo Points/$7.99 USD
SNES: 800 Nintendo Points/$7.99 USD
N64: 1000 Nintendo Points/$9.99 USD
GCN: My guess is 1500 NP/$14.99 USD

I think they'll make a $5 jump in price because the games are a) 10x the size of a N64 game and thus require more space on the server, b ) the games are more recent, so they can charge more because you can still go into a GameStop and buy a GameCube game, and c) Nintendo likes making money. That being said, Nintendo should definitely have external storage as an option from day one. Let's break this down from a storage space point of view:

8 GB Wii U hard drive
-2 GB Wii U and Wii saves, along with some downloaded VC games
-1 GB in WiiUWare games
= the average Wii U user has roughly 5 GB of space for GameCube games. GameCube games are usually 1.3 GB, so this means the average Wii U user can fit about 3 to 4 GameCube games without external memory.

Side Note 1: I really hope Nintendo switches from blocks to MB and GB. My hard drive is 500 GB, not 32,768,000 blocks.
Side Note 2: Half of me hopes that Ninty releases all of the Wii's VC games onto the eShop on day one. Half of me thought waiting for those games to come out and seeing what came out every week was fun, and it might be fun on the Wii U as well.

Edited by CaptainFalco311, 20 May 2012 - 08:17 AM.