But Grandma and Grandpa playing Wii games for hours in retirement homes across the country?
Wii games are available at a variety of price points for every kind of shopper.
Erickson Retirement Communities discovered that Wii games were fun and good exercise for seniors in its retirement homes, because swinging the remote simulates motions people use when playing for real.
It's a great value for first-time Wii owners who just want to jump in and experience all the great Wii games that helped usher in a revolution in motion-controlled gaming.
One of the great things about the Wii U for someone like me is that I can now play many of the old Wii games on the new system if I choose.
With Nintendo struggling to juggle Wii games on the Wii U and Sony's Playstation 4 abandoning current gen PSN games, it looks like backwards compatibility is a thing of the past.
And will Nintendo, which has been so active in getting kids active through video games, be able to keep kids off the couch with Wii U games?
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Below is a list of upcoming Wii U games for launch day and beyond.
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Check out some of the Wii U games in action in the videos throughout this post.
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Their rival, Nintendo, will provide more detail about the release of its Wii U games machine at a New York event on Thursday.
Well, you've got yourself a hefty firmware update to download should you wish to do anything other than play disc-based Wii U games.
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Nintendo said it would launch its Wii U games console on 18 November in the US, 30 November in Europe, and 8 December in Japan.
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Players will be able to use the hand-held console as a camera, take pictures of themselves and automatically convert their images into Miis -- personalized in-game avatars like ones from Wii console games.
GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GameStop (NYSE: GME), the world's largest multichannel retailer of video games, announced today that it is now taking pre-orders on Nintendo's revolutionary new video game console, the Wii U. Top Wii U games, like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, ZombiU, New Super Mario Bros.
Despite not being shown with the gamepad controller, Pikmin 3 was one of my two favorite Wii U games at E3, the other one being Zombi U. It has the potential to be one of the stars of the Wii U launch period, but the lack of online multiplayer is going to hold it back from being the true Wii U showcase it could have been.
The Wii U Pro Controller is compatible with many games on Wii U. In ZombiU, it can be used by another player for local multiplayer matchups.
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Other companies have also prospered by providing easy-to-use products: think of the Nintendo Wii video-games console or the Flip video camera.
That is how you play the most interesting Wii U multiplayer games.
Nevertheless, we did run a few Wii and N64 games quite happily using the Dolphin emulator running with a WiiMote, a third-party IR bar and a Bluetooth adapter for the PC.
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All Wii U Deluxe Set owners who purchase digital content for Wii U, including downloadable games in the Nintendo eShop for Wii U and download codes sold at select retail stores, will earn points with a value equivalent to approximately 10 percent of the Nintendo eShop list price of each purchase.
For Wii owners, backwards compatibility of games and accessories makes the Wii U an affordable upgrade to HD, allowing them to keep their game library but giving them access to more third-party titles and new HD first-party titles.
Some Nintendo partners, as well as competitors, predict the new Wii U's early success will more likely be determined by family-oriented games like "Wii Fit U, " an exercise program.
The prices for NES and Super NES Virtual Console games for Wii U will be the same as they were for the Virtual Console on Wii.
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While there are millions of gamers who play FIFA 11, a growing number of consumers around the globe are playing motion-controlled games on Wii and PlayStation Move.
In the short term, Miyamoto said "Pikmin 3" and "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" will be released for the Wii U and other games that bring a Nintendo-esque style of play will also be released later this year.
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Nintendo will roll out a portal for bite-sized games for its Wii console, dubbed WiiWare, later this year.
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's famed game designer, said what was missing were games for the Wii U that made its appeal clear.
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