But what if you tried it the other way around? Popping a Switch cart into the disc drive of a Wii U certainly sounds like a recipe for disaster, and unfortunately that's exactly what one owner in ...

Note: Loading discs with your finger in the hole is not healthy for the Wii U disc drive nor the disc. 2. Put the disc in with the label side facing up, or right, for consoles set vertically.

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube 824k. As you might imagine, there is a catch here; while you can store and run games on a disc through a DVD drive, the Wii U's own disc drive won't be able ...

Last night @ArcadeBrooklyn I opened a Wii u in order to remove some switch games from the disc drive. Yes you heard correctly, the console owner's son stuck a bunch of switch games in there.

According to Anandtech, the Wii U's optical drive is "very Blu-ray like." The site found in its teardown that the drive allows for 25GB of capacity per disc -- the same as Blu-ray.

Update: Nintendo of America offered the following comment on the hard drive requirement for Lego City Undercover for Wii U. Lego City Undercover is a giant, streaming, open-world city.

The WiikeÜ spells trouble for game developers, however it may do wonders for the Wii U. The sales for the Wii U failed to even meet Nintendo's lowered expectations, selling only a measly 3.45 ...

Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth may be the first Wii U disc to be ripped and distributed online, according to a group called Venom. The group claims to have cracked the Wii U’s encryption ...

The group behind the first Wii mod chip has posted an update on its Wiikey website claiming to have broken the Wii U drive authentication and disc encryption, making it possible to play games from ...

The Wii U disc capacity is up to 25 GB, which means that if a game takes full advantage of the disc storage, buying it digitally would use up all the space on your Deluxe. The good news is you can ...