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The following is the complete list of the 481 Virtual Console titles that were available for the Wii U in Japan sorted by system and release date. English translations are highlighted between parenthesis.
These games utilize the backward compatibility of Wii U with Wii games in order to run, albeit without needing to explicitly access the Wii Menu. Games that can be played with the Classic Controller can also be played using the Wii U GamePad as a controller instead. The download variants can also support any save files created on or transferred ...
While Wii Virtual Console titles cannot be played using the Wii U GamePad's controls, a September 2013 system update enabled the use of the GamePad's screen as a display. While some Wii games were also available for download from the Wii U eShop, these are not designated as Virtual Console releases and lack Virtual Console features.
Games dated December 8, 2012 (Japan), November 18, 2012 (North America), and November 30, 2012 (Europe and Australasia) are launch titles for the specified regions. For a list of games that were announced or in development for the Wii U but never released, see the list of cancelled Wii U games .
The following is the complete list of the 659 Virtual Console titles that were available for the Wii in Japan sorted by system and release dates. The last new title was released on April 9, 2013, and the ability to purchase new titles ended on January 31, 2019.
The Wii version of 428 was the eighth best-selling game in Japan during its week of release, selling 34,000 units. [34] Year-end sales of the game totalled 53,315 units. [ 35 ] In Japan, the game has sold 181,276 retail copies across all platforms, including 179,269 copies for the Wii, PS3 and PSP by 2012, [ 36 ] and 2,007 copies for the PS4 in ...
The central focus of the fan translation community is historically of Japanese-exclusive computer and video games being made playable in English for the first time, and sometimes of games recently released in Japan that are import-worthy and are unlikely to be officially localized to English-speaking countries. It has since expanded to include ...
The best-selling game on the Wii U is Mario Kart 8. First released in Japan on May 29, 2014, it went on to sell over 8.4 million units worldwide. There are a total of 20 Wii U games on this list which are confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, 14 were developed by internal Nintendo development divisions.