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Microsoft Has "No Information" About Bringing Anything Except Minecraft to Wii U

This comes after Microsoft talked about Rare Replay on Wii U.

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Writing on Twitter this weekend, Microsoft confirmed it has nothing to announce regarding any of its games outside of Minecraft coming to Wii U.

This comes after a tweet from the Microsoft Studios account suggested that the company might be open to the idea of bringing Xbox One's Rare Replay to Nintendo's console.

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"We appreciate all your suggestions!" Microsoft said. "However, we have no information of any games coming to the Wii U other than Minecraft at this time."

As for the initial tweet that started all of this, here's what happened. On December 7, someone asked if, in addition to Minecraft, Microsoft might bring Rare Replay to Wii U. Microsoft responded by saying anyone who's interested in that should take it up with the Microsoft-owned UK developer Rare.

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This led some to believe Microsoft was open to the idea of Rare Replay one day coming to Wii U. Interestingly, Microsoft's statement ends by saying it has nothing to announce "at this time," which leaves open the possibility of some announcement being made down the road.

Minecraft for Wii U launches on December 17. Microsoft acquired the Minecraft franchise and developer Mojang in 2014 for the price of $2.5 billion.

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Imagine there would be a lot of work involved in bringing Rare Replay to Wii U, since the collection includes a large number of emulated Xbox 360 games which never appeared on Nintendo platforms.

Those games would all have to be ported to Wii U, or be left out of the package

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@Spartan_418: Not to mention how much space they'd take up. This would be another one of those games that wouldn't fit on the Wii U's default hard drive.

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@catsimboy: Too bad the wii U doesn't have a disc drive.

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@JoSilver: So does the Xbox One but some of the games on the Rare Replay you have to download. It has four full Xbox 360 games, even if they fit on the Wii U's pathetic 32gb hard drive there won't be much room left for anything else.

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@catsimboy: Wii U allows external harddrives. I plugged up my 500gb WD My Book to it. Aint no thing but a chicken wing. And some hot sauce on top of course.

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@mesome713: right, but the Wii U doesn't have a built-in drive, which means that releasing a game that requires one is a big gamble.

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@ChazPrime: Wii U does have a built in drive.

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@mesome713: It doesn't have a built-in drive big enough to install Rare Replay on.

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@ChazPrime: You cant install discs to Wii Us Harddrive. It just plays them. So unless it has 32g of extra downloadable content other then whats on the disc, i see no issue. And if it does, then we just install to the external, easy peasy.

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@mesome713: We wouldn't have to have external hard drives hanging off our systems like an old lady at the casino with an oxygen tank if Nintendo wasn't so cheap and put a decent hard drive in. Heck I could work with even a 100gb drive, something big enough for a couple digital games and all the save files and game updates for my disc games.

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@catsimboy: You cray cray. Majoirty Wii U onwers dont use harddrives. Get outta here with that bullshat. Go complain bout them weak 1TB drives cant hardly fit nothin on. Straight bullshat!

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@mesome713: That made no sense whatsoever.

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@JustPlainLucas: Cant help you there bro.

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