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.

OK, I'll join the club and say it. The Wii U and, to a degree, the 3DS Virtual Console are becoming rather frustrating, stale affairs. There's something odd that, years after working through the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The previously touted Wii U Virtual Console has now been made available on all consoles (thanks ShackNews), offering a handful of nostalgia-ridden games to boot. Included in the launch list is F-Zero, ...

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 ...