Last week, Nintendo confirmed that the Wii U would be getting its very own Virtual Console service, allowing owners to play retro classics from yesteryear. If you're a longstanding Wii owner who ...

Long before the Wii U was officially announced, Wii owners everywhere were already dreading the seemingly inevitable reality of having to re-purchase their Virtual Console content on a new system.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 rumours were true - today, Nintendo confirmed its plans for the Wii U Virtual Console during the Wii U Direct presentation. Following a spring system update, the Virtual Console service will ...

There's really nothing like the Virtual Console in terms of breadth, no other place to discover retro games you might not even have heard about. I don't know what the Wii U Virtual Console will be ...

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 ...

Together with software on the Wii U loading faster, and a new Virtual console also heading to the Wii U within the Spring updates. Previously, the Nintendo Virtual Console service was only ...

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 ...