![]() ![]() What is on the Switch eShop today also harkens back to a bygone era of gaming. ![]() The Switch doesn’t have a Virtual Console yet, and it’s not clear when it will have one, let alone whether it will be backward compatible with games released on Wii U and older. There’s no way to port Wii U purchases over to Nintendo Switch yet, so eShop games and Virtual Console titles are locked on the older hardware for now. There’s still a huge caveat lingering over all Wii U digital games, though. Amazon Prime has new copies for $79, while resellers want anywhere from $10 to $95 for them. It later was included in the Nintendo Selects line of budget-priced games, but even that version is incredibly expensive nowadays. Nintendo ported Pikmin 2 over to Wii as part of its “New Play Control” lineup, adding motion controls to the mix, in 2012, three years after Pikmin got the same treatment. ![]() At $19.99, that’s a steal for a copy of this classic, which became scarce not long after its initial release on GameCube. The Wii version of Pikmin 2is now available on Wii U Virtual Console, and it has added off-screen play support. This week’s set of Nintendo eShop downloads are pretty paltry across the board, but there’s one highlight in the lineup - for Wii U, anyway. ![]()
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