IGN - For months, many gamers have wondered if their Wii games, and transferred Virtual Console and WiiWare software, could be played entirely on Wii U's GamePad, much like New Super Mario Bros. U. Today Nintendo has provided that answer, definitively stating its new controller will not offer that functionality.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
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VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
Also keep in mind that not every WiiU game will stream to the WiiU controller. Monster hunter 3 ultimate is one of those games, and I have a feeling that in the future. More games are not going to be taking advantage of that feature. So if that a huge selling point for you. Keep that in mind.
Haha great pic they used on the game pad.
Whether or not a Wii U game will use the "gamepad" is 100% up to the devs. Nintendo isn't forcing them to use it last I checked.
I would expect this, because it would allow games to be made that use 100% of the graphical resources just for the game and not for streaming to two output devices. Not that streaming to 2 screens will eat that many resources to begin with.
Why on Earth would it? Virtual console titles would be nifty, but how would Wii games be expected to work considering most games on that system used the Wiimote motion controls in some way.
They'd have to patch in new control systems for every single Wii game ever made to allow this to even be a possibility...can't believe that people actually wondered this in terms of Wii software.
It has to do with compatibility. When playing Wii games on wiiu, you run the Wii system software. The Wii CAN'T. use the gamepad and therefore games can't be played on it.
Hopefully they will work around this somehow... but the fact that they haven't found a workaround yet is disappointing. I do think wii/VC stuff should be playable on the GP.