I mean it would make sense if they did release gamecube games on the wii u virtual console since gamecube games like paper mario: the thousand year door are hard to find and when you do find it, it's very costly 

Edited May 15, 20169 yr by Zeldablade7

It's Nintendo. They don't want our money.

Ah I wish they did because I love so many Gamecube games. But I don't claim to know or understand Nintendo Marketing decisions (then again I am just a dumb 16 year old SO) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Same reason they don't release the GBA games on the 3DS and instead release them on the Wii U.

 

I don't know what that reason IS, mind, but it's all lumped under the same general category of "lolnintendo".

Nintendo must be masochists because they love to shoot their selves in the foot.

Honestly, I wonder this, myself since Nintendo gave us GameCube controllers as an option to play Smash bros Wii U with. I would love to use the GC controller more than just one, single, fighting game.

Same reason they don't release the GBA games on the 3DS and instead release them on the Wii U.I don't know what that reason IS, mind, but it's all lumped under the same general category of "lolnintendo".

Aparently the reason why GBA games are not on 3DS is because the 3DS can't emulate GBA games very well and I think the Ambassador program also has something to do with it.

I mean it would make sense if they did release gamecube games on the wii u virtual console since gamecube games like paper mario: the thousand year door are hard to find and when you do find it, it's very costly

I've wondered the same thing with their Game Boy titles not on Nintendo eshop.

Same reason there are so little Wii U games this year: unfortunately the Wii U is on its way out.

Wait you actually wanted to play Gamecube games on the Wii U? We thought you just wanted the controller for Smash, lol!

 

Seriously though, I have no idea why Nintendo isn't doing that, considering that the Gamecube was one of their most popular systems to date. But this also feels equivalent to the PS4 not being backwards compatible not only with PS3 games but with PS2 games as well. I just don't get it, when did being backwards compatible suddenly become an "unnecessary" option instead of a feature that you could safely count on with each new system so when your obsolete hardware eventually dies out, you've got something newer and better that can still run all the games you have. If it was a matter of format differences, like with the Gamecube using discs while the 64 used cartridges, then yeah, backwards compatibility would be a bit demanding, but companies like Playstation have been disc-operated since day one! Not only that, but since most times you have to go out of your way to just find and buy a working or refurbished version of an older system to replace your dead one, you have to go out of your way to buy something that the company itself isn't even relying on as a major profit source anymore. I'm sure they appreciate any little 80-200 you spend on a new previous-gen console, but they would much rather you spend all your money on getting the new current console. Well newsflash industry, I and other customers would gladly buy every new little thing you dish out in a heartbeat if you built it so that it could support every single game I've purchased once already and already own in a physical format instead of having to wait for it to either come out in a digital format to pay for it again and take up more precious memory or for the 50/50 chance of them all getting HD remasters.

 

If there's one thing gamers love most, it's reliability, whether it be in the game they are playing or the system they are using, and if companies are still trying to figure that one out (again it seems...) then they still have a long ways to go.

If the Wii U had been a bigger success I'm sure Gamecube games would've been on there. More than like would've sat between the $10 N64 games and the $20 Wii games, at $15 on the VC knowing Nintendo.

Aparently the reason why GBA games are not on 3DS is because the 3DS can't emulate GBA games very well and I think the Ambassador program also has something to do with it.

 

The 3DS can run any GBA game just fine...

The 3DS can run any GBA game just fine...

I remember reading somewhere that the way GBA games ran in the ambassador program wasn't good enough for Nintendo and they can't get them to run as well as they'd like with an emulator

You know, I never wondered about this!  But then again, I've never purchased games from the Virtual Console, so I don't have to say much on the matter, ya know? But if Nintendo knows that there are fans that are clamoring for classic Gamecube games to be ported over for the Virtual Console, they don't seem to be listening, ya know?