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GameCube Joining The Wii U’s WiiWare?

GameCube Joining The Wii U’s WiiWare?

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In an E3 interview, Nintendo of America Director of Entertainment and Trend Marketing Amber McCollum revealed that certain games “playable on GameCube” will be downloadable through the Wii U’s WiiWare store. The GameCube, with its extremely limited online capabilities and lack of storage options beyond memory cards, was limited almost exclusively to playing GameCube games, implying that some such titles will find their way to the WiiWare store.

When asked why the Wii U would not, itself, be compatible with GameCube titles as the Wii was, McCollum said, “Nintendo’s history usually goes back one system. The Wii was compatible with GameCube and Wii U will be compatible with Wii and that’s pretty traditional in launches from Nintendo.” The Wii was the first Nintendo system outside of the GameBoy line to offer backwards compatibility with any previous Nintendo console, so it might seem strange that McCollum feels that Nintendo has already established a tradition in how it handles its backwards compatibility.



Even if we look to handheld compatibility, the GameBoy Advance, the first Nintendo handheld to have two previous generations of hardware to be compatible with, was able to play both original GameBoy games and GameBoy Color titles. It wasn’t until the Nintendo DS that backwards compatibility was scaled back solely to GBA titles.

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