The Wii U's front end♔ will get leaner and meaner over🍰 the spring and summer with operating system updates and Virtual Console support, Satoru Iwata revealed in today's . System owners can expect performance improvements while navigating through the console and launching games.

Two updates, one in spring and one🌌 in summer, are slated to reduce load times between launching games and returning to the menu screen--Miiverse browser and mobile support will go live around th🐼en, too. The spring update will also include Virtual Console support for Wii U, adding Miiverse and GamePad-only play to the initial lineup of NES and SNES games.

Virtual Console pricing will remain consistent from Wii, with $5 to $6 price tags for NES titles and $8 to $9 for SNES games. These versions are different from those you may still𝔍 have from a Wii-to-Wii-U system♓ transfer: if you want to play on your GamePad or get mad "Yeahs!" on your screenshot of Prince Darkness Gannon, you'll need to pay $1 for NES or $1.50 for SNES games to upgrade.

Expect the Wii U Virtual Console to expand to other console🍨s, including the venerable Game Boy Advance, as the catalog fills out.