In 2005 when we showed the Wii for the first time, that was the first time anyone had ever seen or mentioned Wii. I know that Nintendo put out some information in advance of E3 and I think there’s a number of different ways to approach E3. She also said that all those “leaked” rumors we heard about the Wii U before E3 were somewhat staged: “I wouldn’t call it an information leak with the Wii U. McCollum also confirmed that the Wii U on display at E3 only supports one controller, but was reluctant to say that the final system won’t support more. It would be nice to play Resident Evil 4 with a non-motion controller again. Hopefully some or all of these will grace the Wii U in some fashion. Though the GameCube can largely be considered Nintendo’s weakest-selling console, it had a number of amazing games like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Monkey Ball, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Star Wars: Rogue Leader, Viewtiful Joe, Beyond Good & Evil, Wave Race: Blue Storm, Super Mario Sunshine, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, and Super Smash Bros. McCollum also mentions WiiWare, but we believe she means Virtual Console, which is a subset of the Wii Shop Channel. We hope the answer isn’t simply bigger SD cards, but it could be. It will be interesting to see how Nintendo handles downloads that large. GameCube optical discs hold 1.5GB of data and many games for the system used most or all of that storage. … the GameCube discs will not be compatible with Wii U, but a number of the games that were playable on GameCube can be downloaded from WiiWare.”
“The Wii was compatible with GameCube and Wii U will be compatible with Wii and that’s pretty traditional in launches from Nintendo.
“You know it’s interesting that you bring up backwards compatibility and Nintendo’s history usually goes back one system,” said McCollom.