ORIGINAL: Charles_22
Nonetheless, people seem to often buy it with the understanding they can play the old games on it. There are those, also, who don't have the old sytems, I would qualify as such if I were interested in the Wii, who will be disappointed that one of the selling points was largely fictitious.
I wonder if they sell the downloadable old games with a large discount, assuming they don't give owners of old titles a discount? Some people, if they believed the hype, would have also trashed or sold their old console just to save space, since, afterall, this was going to take care of that.
Nintendo made it very clear that the Wii is fully backward compatible to the "Gamecube" and that all the rest of the games work via the "Virtual Console" only and need to be purchased from the classic game archive.
You only need to read the specs of the console. Nothing hidden, no "fictitious" selling points.
If you don't do the reading it is your own fault. Common sense.
