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Imagine viewing Super Mario World on the Wii U screen
The Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nintendo, Scott Moffitt, confirms during the interview with ABC News that Nintendo Wii owners can transfer their Virtual Console games onto their newly purchase Wii U system and is playable on the Wii U GamePad. No mention if Wiiware games get the same treatment.
Update
Thanks to the live blog during the Nintendo Wii U Developer Discussion, Nintendo Wii U hardware producer Katsuya Eguchi receive a question about downloaded Wii games and Virtual Console games over to Wii U and his response is this:
We are readying the system to be able to transfer saves and everything you've bought.
Confirming that Wiiware games are also transferable!
There will also be gaming accounts for each family member of some sort.
The interview also reconfirming (was reveal dring the Nintendo press conference) that the Wii U system can support up two Wii U GamePads. However, there is no confirmation that any of the announced Wii U games will be using this feature.
Are you trilled that you can transfer all your Wii Virtual Console games to the Wii U? Leave your welcoming thoughts at the comment section below.
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Re: E3 *Update*: Confirmation on Wii VC Transfer
June 5th 2012, 4:52 pmDigiDestined
I knew Nintendo would do the same thing they did during the DSiWare to eshop transfers. 
June 5th 2012, 5:11 pm
That is welcome news.
June 5th 2012, 5:28 pm
I just knew Nintendo wouldn't force us to keep our Wii consoles because of this situation. We wouldn't just be forced to pay for VC titles again, those games may not even be available on the new eShop either. What's the point of offering downloadable classic retro videogames, if they're just going to be lost in the winds of time again?
June 5th 2012, 6:29 pm
I figured the same thing.DigiDestined wrote:I knew Nintendo would do the same thing they did during the DSiWare to eshop transfers.
Glad to see that Nintendo didn't disappoint us.
June 5th 2012, 7:30 pm
Good news about Wiiware that I just updated.
June 5th 2012, 7:43 pm
I'm still wondering if we'll be able to trade in our Wii console's towards the cost of purchasing a WiiU, or will need to keep them until after we've transfered our WiiShop content? I'm hoping Nintendo just finds a way of linking our WiiShop/Club Nintendo accounts with our new WiiU eShop accounts. That would easily bypass any restrictions this may cause.
June 5th 2012, 8:47 pm
They said this last year but I'm keeping my Wii for the other room. Beside the trade in value is next to nothing. Everybody has one.
June 5th 2012, 9:28 pm
This is totally awesome news! 
June 6th 2012, 8:09 am
WEll this is great bloody news. I happy to hear this. So happy
June 6th 2012, 8:23 am
Guys this was told this time last year
June 6th 2012, 8:24 am
i didnt hear. i heard about backwards compatibility. but not the ability to transfer saves and vc data
June 6th 2012, 2:01 pm
Didn't Nintendo already say that they planned to do this last year?
June 6th 2012, 6:10 pm
Good grief @KingreX32 and @Onlinemedia it was confirmed by Nintendo last year, but it would appear that most of the media has forgotten that information Nintendo gave them lol. 
June 7th 2012, 7:06 pm
Actually, I wonder how this would work. My original Wii - with probably a couple hundred dollars worth of VC/WW games on it - is dead and gone. If the WiiU pulls the listing from your Nintendo account - maybe I could get them all back. Nice. 
June 7th 2012, 11:50 pm
Fabulous news mates! :-D
June 8th 2012, 5:09 am
Was expecting this...
With this official announcement now, anyone who was on the fence about the "Wii Shop to WiiU transfer feature" can now download more good Virtual Console and WiiWare games.
I guess there might be some games (licensed and removed ones) that don't make the cut (like it was the case in the "DSi-to-3DS transfer") There's a chance some of your games won't be transferable and downloadable and will stay on your Wii. I hope there is a way around it so everything is transferable.
With this official announcement now, anyone who was on the fence about the "Wii Shop to WiiU transfer feature" can now download more good Virtual Console and WiiWare games.
I guess there might be some games (licensed and removed ones) that don't make the cut (like it was the case in the "DSi-to-3DS transfer") There's a chance some of your games won't be transferable and downloadable and will stay on your Wii. I hope there is a way around it so everything is transferable.
June 10th 2012, 12:30 am
Not surprised, but still fantastic news. 
June 10th 2012, 4:02 pm
It is nice to know that I will be able to transfer my Wiiware and vc games to my WiiU
June 10th 2012, 4:47 pm
I'm glad that it's possible to take the WiiWare and VC games with me to the Wii U. I'm curious if with a transfer it is still possible to play the games on the Wii.
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