At Nintendo's financial results meeting today, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced the company is planning to bring Nintendo DS games to the Wii U Virtual Console service, allowing certain titles to be playable on the Wii U Gamepad.

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Iwata did not reveal which DS titles would be playable, although he highlighted how good the popular DS title Brain Age might look on the Gamepad's screen in a presentation slide.Nintendo is doubling-down on its efforts to highlight the unique strengths of the Wii U Gamepad, in part to emphasize it as a separate entity to the Wii in the public's consciousness.

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