Hopefully this means WiiWare as well. It's time to empty the fridge.
Nintendo of America has confirmed to ABC News that you can transfer your Wii Virtual Console purchases from your Wii to your shiny new Wii U.
Nintendo America’s Scott Moffit told ABC News that purchases will transfer across and while there will be some ‘restructuring’ to get them as the Wii U has multiple system accounts, your thousands of dollars of purchases on the Wii are safe. Well I have at least that much, I’m sure many others do too. We’re going to assume that Nintendo means WiiWare games with this as well.
The Wii U GamePad should have enough buttons on it as well so you don’t have to hang onto the Classic Controller if you don’t want to. Hopefully Virtual Console games can be played off the gamepad as well.
Update: Nintendo has confirmed in a Q&A held this morning that “We are readying the system to be able to transfer saves and everything you’ve bought.”. Great news!
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