One of the most significant announcements to spawn from the event is that the house of Mario will be releasing Nintendo DS software on the Wii U. Following suite with a number of NES and SNES games that are currently available on the system, Ninty announced that it’s confident in its ability to port DS titles to the Wii U and will be doing so via the platform’s Virtual Console service.
Specifics regarding which DS titles will be coming to the Wii U in the future weren’t elaborated upon, nor was pricing or a time frame in which gamers could expect the content, but the slide featured in the presentation did tease Brain Age — so that’s something. Of course, it’s not hard to compile an expansive list of games that fans would love to see arrive on the home console, but it’s a little more challenging to tell which software the Big N will choose to be ported to the platform.
Whether or not DS games could be made available on the 3DS eShop wasn’t addressed, but given that the system is already backwards compatible it’s not much of a stretch to imagine they will. More details are sure to land at some point later this year, so stay tuned to Game Rant for more details.
Would you purchase any DS games for your Wii U? Should Nintendo be focussing on porting older games from its handheld library to the Wii U?
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