New Nintendo Direct coming up tomorrow at 9am EST, Wednesday 1/23/2013. You can watch it here:
http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct . I have been hearing rumors back and forth that this will be new game announcements, new information about games already announced, that this will be only first party games with third party information coming at a later date and the latest rumor would be the Wii U Virtual Console service. Let's take a look at that for a moment shall we? What could this mean? What will this include? What will this exclude. I saw this rumor off of Twitter from Nintendoworldreport.com
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33089 . I also hopped over to my favorite Nintendo news blog and RMC also was posting it as a rumor,
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=194686 . Well let's get my number one wish out of the way. Off screen ( Wii U gamepad ) play. Playing a few Wii games lately on my Wii U I really understand what a great feature this is. Meaning I miss being able to this this. Now that that is out of the way we are left with the question of if this is true then will we be able to transfer our Wii Virtual Console purchases over to the Wii U. I for one hope so but I am afraid Nintendo will not do this. The Wii did not have an account for your purchases based off an user name. This was done by console. Now maybe they have a SD move utility like the 3DS or like the Wii to Wii U had and this could be fixed. I guess we will see. I won't be buying VC games over just to have on the Wii U but maybe I would enjoy a few titles I didn't pick up in the past. Wii the Wii U have all the VC games on it or will it be limited to just a few releases like on the 3DS? It might be a separate library like the 3DS. These games I would guess have to be re-licence to be released on the Wii U most likely and I also wonder if they will have to re-rated on the ESRB to be released and both costs money. Best case is we will see the full library that the Wii had which includes: Commodore 64, NES, Sega MasterSystem, TurboGrafx-16, TurboGrafx-CD, MSX (Japan only), Sega Genesis, SNES, Neo Geo, Nintendo 64, and Arcade. Now rumors are saying that we could see Gamecube support on the Wii U based on the Neo gaf screen cap from the links I posted earlier. I say this is fine with me. There are plenty of great Gamecube games I never got to play. Digging a little deeper I did find a quote when I was looking for a list of the Wii VC systems. The quote says,
In a July 2011 interview, Nintendo's Amber McCollum stated that select Nintendo GameCube titles would be made available for download on the Wii U console via the Wii U's own Nintendo eShop.[29] Current Virtual Console titles, however, are not available directly from the Nintendo eShop, and cannot be played natively. At this time, Wii U users are required to purchase or download Virtual Console titles via the Wii Mode app using the Wii Shop Channel. You can check it out yourself at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Console#Wii_U . I found that quote to put a little more true to the rumor that we will see a Gamecube announcement tomorrow. As I was writing this wouldn't it be cool for a split screen VC? One person plays on TV with Wii Remote, Classic/Pro controller, Wii U pro controller and the other person uses the Wii U gamepad or they can use one of the other controller inputs and the Wii U gamepad is just a feed for his screen. You can send me a check Nintendo for this great idea :).
EDIT- Just thought maybe this will explain why some games like Donkey Kong country and I think Sim City was removed off the virtual consoles. Maybe we will get updated games for Wii U VC.
Other things that would be great to see more demos announced, An increase on your Wii U friends list, More apps built into TVii like Xfinity, Netflix and HBOgo, and ESPN so I can stop using my Xbox 360, Pikmin and Wii Fit U release date, Super Smash Bros information, Mario Kart Wii U information, Zelda info, Metroid, or dare I say Star Fox? Another cool thing would be more 3DS and Wii U interaction. Be that both being able to play the same game multiplayer, using the 3DS as a controller or being able to play Monster Hunter on your Wii U then syncing your game on your 3DS and taking it with you to play your same save file. I bet I am forgeting some things that I knew they would talk about and I am sure some things I have said already have been announced. I am sure I will be let down with what ever is announced tomorrow since even half of these would make an amazing E3 conference. Come on Big N prove me wrong and wow me......
Got something to add, throw in your two cents and then tune in tomorrow at 9am EST to see how right or way wrong we were.
I'm really hoping for some Zelda news today. Shot in the dark prediction: maybe an old-school Castlevania reboot in announced.
ReplyDeleteGood guess natetnu, not just one Zelda announcement but two. New Zelda Wii U announced but no footage. They said they were exploring changing things like having to do dungeons in certain orders and playing by yourself. A new Zelda Wind Waker HD remake was a big surprise. Unfortunatly it was a shot in the dark. They said it would all be first party announcements today. I agree with a few tweets I saw today. If this had of been E3 this would have topped the last one. This years E3 should be good. We will see Mario Kart and a 3d Mario. I believe they also said it would be playable.
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