Virtual Console and Wii U Panorama View Also Set to Launch REDMOND, Wash., April 26, 2013 – The next major system update for Nintendo's Wii U home console after launch is now available for download.

Nintendo updated its Wii U Virtual Console service today with a pair of classic titles from its Nintendo 64 and DS game libraries. Nintendo 64 games will cost between $9.99 and $12.99 USD.

A Wii U-specific Virtual Console didn't make launch and has currently only been promised for a nebulous "future" release, but players can still access the classics in all their glory thanks to the ...

The Wii U Virtual Console is well and truly up and running, which its greatest supporters will say is a more-than-welcome boost of old-school goodies to fill out the Wii U lineup, and the greatest ...

Next week's update will also bring the Wii U Virtual Console which Iwata first promised to old-school Nintendo fans in January. The Virtual Console essentially acts as a software emulator run off ...

Those disappointed that the Wii U did not launch with a virtual console to play older games the way the Wii did in 2006, take heart. Nintendo is working on a Wii U version, and apparently the ...

Many people have also been wondering what is happening with the Virtual Console, at the moment you can access it through the Wii Menu but not through the Wii U eShop itself. This is something that ...

Maybe. But whether the system ultimately proves as revolutionary as its predecessor, a new Wii U beneath your TV means access to Nintendo's Virtual Console, and innumerable classic titles vying to ...

Fear not, gentle player, Nintendo announced this morning that the Wii U's Virtual Console is on its way soon. Old games sold on the Wii U will come jazzed up with game saves, Miiverse Communities ...

The portable 3DS and 2DS systems have a different Virtual Console service with its own selection of games, separate even from the Wii U Virtual Console service -- and only New 3DS systems will ...

As such, the Wii U will be able to play Wii games ... McCollum also mentions WiiWare, but we believe she means Virtual Console, which is a subset of the Wii Shop Channel. We hope Nintendo gets ...

Up until yesterday, one needed to run the Wii U's Wii Mode to access the Virtual Console. We also noted that one could not get Club Nintendo Coins when making purchases via this set-up.