Is it possible to play purchased digital games from Switch, like Zelda Breath of the Wild, on Wii U. Meaning, purchase on Switch and then also be able to download Wii U version and play know on that?
@mlc9
No, you Cannot.
When you are accessing Wii U eshop page, the games are Wii U ONLY / Virtual Console for Wii U ONLY. There will be NO Switch games from Wii U eshop.
Although many of the same games do exist on both systems, the games are not compatible between the two systems. I mean, the very fact that the Wii U uses disks and the Switch uses cartridges should be an indication of that. But even if you somehow could transfer a Switch game on to a Wii U disk, or vise versa, the hardware is different enough that it still wouldn’t work.
@grabdexter I imagine he's fully aware of the media differences and that the code for a game on one system isn't going to be directly compatible with the other system.
What he's asking about is something that has been happening ever since the PS3 era (For an example, a season of Pinball Arcade that I bought on my PS4 also unlocked the same season on my Vita and PS3), and is growing with both the Sony and Microsoft ecosystems. Just not at Nintendo.
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