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Reggie Wants GameCube Titles Added to Wii U's Online Store

Posted on Friday, September 21 @ 09:04:21 Eastern by Alex_Osborn

I don't know about you but I totally loved my GameCube. It could have something to do with it being the last Nintendo console I cherished before the company ripped my heart out with the Wii, but I'm not entirely sure. Regardless, the system had so many great games. From Wind Waker to Eternal Darkness to Luigi's Mansion Metroid Prime, Nintendo's purple, minidisc-eating lunchbox packed quite a punch on the software front.

As such, one would hope that Nintendo plans to bring the system's most memorable titles to their online store, especially in light of the fact that the Wii U can't play GameCube discs.

Apparently NOA's Reggie Fils-Aime is well aware of this fact and would like to see games from the GameCube era on the Wii U's online store as well. Speaking with Kotaku, Fils-Aime teased the possibility, responding to the outlet's inquiry by saying: "That is a great question. And personally I would love for that to happen, but we have nothing to announce right now."

How badly would you like to see GameCube games come to the Wii U? I for one would be much more likely to shell out the $300+ if I knew I could relive some of my fondest memories with the GameCube. Let's just hope they're not priced at like $30 a pop.
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  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 10:16 am
    I want this to happen as well, but something tells me that certain games many people love like Eternal Darkness will never make the light of day due to companies either having been broken up or refusing to release the title since they're no longer working with Nintendo.


    The other problem is file size. If I remember right, each GC game is averaged to be around 2 GB, so just a few GC games and your basic Wii U (8 GB model) could max out the storage.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 11:01 am
    One thing I keep getting reminded of is that you can attach literally ANY usb storage to the Wii U and it'll keep spinning like the hard drive was inside the entire time, so if they offer GCN downloadable (and god forbid with some kind of upscaling) I will fill TERABYTES of hard drive space.

    That said, I'm not giving up ****. I won't count on Ninty to do the smart thing, so I'm going to hold on to my GCN and keep buying up classic games for it.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 11:51 am
    True, but don't expect the less educated consumer to know about that.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:20 pm
    I didn't know that when I preordered, but the Gamestop employees have been repeating it non-stop to finish their stock of standard-edition Wii Us.
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:10 pm
    "and it'll keep spinning like the hard drive was inside the entire time". What on earth are you talking about? Unless you are talking about some technical issue I've never heard of, I doubt you'd be able to fill TERABYTES of storage when it would take 500 games at 2GB each to take up 1TB.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:20 pm
    Hypebole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 11:46 am
    I'd love to play Wind Waker in HD through my Wii U.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:20 pm
    Agreed. There are a lot of amazing GCN games that people have missed out on.
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:19 pm
    Wind Waker was my favorite Zelda game. The cartoon-like graphics allowed the characters faces to be much more expressive than in other iterations, and I think that helped introduce some personality into the game.

    But the most important reason that it is my favorite is that at the end, it shows the bird girl and the leaf kid together with Zelda and Link. When I was a child playing OoT, I always thought it was really sad to see Links friends become Sages and spend eternity alone inside a crystal, fighting evil or something.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2012 at 4:22 pm
    That was kind of heart breaking. Like trading the princess for all the characters you met on your amazing journey. *cries*
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2012 at 3:46 am
    WW was one of my fav's s well. Originally I hated the graphics and thought it made it too childish, but once I got the game (years later on sale) I ended up loving it. It's one of the few games I can remember giving me that sense of adventure feeling.
  • moretokes
    moretokes

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2012 at 2:21 pm
    Star wars rogue squadron 2 not 3

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