Nintendo Confirms Users will Need Their Old Wii Systems for Wii to Wii U Game License Transfers

[Shawn Zipay]

So you've managed to accumulate a fairly significant number of digital games on your Wii console. That's awesome! Games are always fun, but what if you wanted to pick up a shiny new Wii U later this year and wanted to keep all of those digital games.

You may just figure you can go ahead and sell off your old console but that is not a wise move. Nintendo has revealed that in order to transfer your digital games' licenses to the new Wii U, you will still need your old Wii.

Wii U owners can wirelessly transfer content such as Miis, and WiiWare and Virtual Console games to their Wii U systems. Both systems will need to be connected to the Internet and the Wii U will need an SD card to facilitate the transfer. The process is very similar to transferring content from Nintendo DS to Nintendo 3DS or from Nintendo 3DS to Nintendo 3DS XL; which has been received positively by consumers. Transferred Wii content is accessible and can be played through Wii Mode, an application on the Wii U’s main menu.

It is presumed, however, that once this transfer is complete it will be safe to sell your old system without any issue.

(via Gimmiegimmiegames)

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