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If I were to play a Wii game on the Wii U, could I play it on the tablet? Using the tablet as the display and use the normal Wii controller+nunchuck to play the game? Or does that not work for some reason?

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No.

Unfortunately, the Wii U screen is a little more complicated than simply streaming from the main unit, and thus you will only have the ability to play from it on games where the developer has taken the time to implement that.

Since Wii games were (understandably) developed before the Wii U came out, none of them have the code necessary to transfer to the tablet. It remains to be seen if Nintendo will "retrofit" some (if any) of the virtual console games to use the tablet.

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Source: My cousin develops for the Wii U :3 – Raven Dreamer♦ Nov 26 '12 at 2:16
darn i think its dumb that it doesnt stream even a low fi version. I calculated by doing 800x600x2 (16bits rather then 24)/1024 = 937.5KB. Bluetooth does "theoretical data transfer speeds of up to 24 Mbit/s" so i guess 30fps might be too much hmm. Its a shame. 640x480 seems like its stream able – acidzombie24 Nov 26 '12 at 2:21
I suspect it's for compatibility - to play a Wii game you go into a separate menu, and the gamepad turns off. It's like a little temporary lobotomy of your console. Hopefully they'll just tweak the emulator to dual-display to the handheld. – Allen Gould Jan 2 at 22:24

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