Forget about using the GC controller on Zelda Wii

by Joystiq Staff on Aug 16th 2006 6:55PM

George Harrison, Nintendo of America's VP of Marketing and Corporate Communications, told the people in Camp Hyrule that the Wii version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will only have support for the Wii's controller -- not the GameCube's. While this isn't necessarily anything drastically bad, it is a letdown for those who maybe didn't want to give the full Wiimote scheme a go.

In more positive news, Harrison did note that new Nintendo games could come to the Virtual Console, besides just the classic ones:

"Remember, there are other secrets of the virtual console that we won't reveal until we get closer to launch. Virtual console offers the possibility for us to create new games, but our focus right now is in getting the Wii hardware launched and new games from Nintendo on the virtual console will be coming sometime after the launch."

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Tags: GameCube, Wii

Reader Comments (54)

My guess is that the game will be on 2 discs for the GC as it is and adding Wii functionality would have pushed it to 3. It becomes much cheaper from a manufacturing point of view to just burn 1 DVD for the Wii version and 2 mini-discs for the GC rather than always burning 3 expensive GC-discs and annoying the user with having to change discs all the time.

No wonder the gaming market has become so formulaic. You give gamers, even the "hardcore," something new and they bitch about how they should have the old. Try something new.

""No wonder the gaming market has become so formulaic. You give gamers, even the "hardcore," something new and they bitch about how they should have the old. Try something new.""

this should be the official slogan for the wii™. Bravo, wanderer, Bravo!

Like I said in the post about this on WiiFanboy, what Nintendo should do is release a $60 special edition set that includes both the Gamecube and Wii versions. I wouldn't pay $100 for both, but I would pay an extra $10.

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