Nintendo accidentally listed Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps for the Wii U Virtual Console

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Isaac Todd
December 30, 2020
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Last night, Twitter user @wight90297332 discovered that the N64 titles Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps had been listed for release today by Nintendo. Though, rather than joining NES and SNES games as a part of Switch Online, they were instead coming to the Wii U.

Of course, this turned out to be a false listing, with Nintendo removing them earlier today. Now when you check the Nintendo Japan release calendar, a message at the top states that ‘Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps were listed as Wii U titles to be released on December 30, but will not be released. We apologize for the error.’ (thanks to Gematsu for the translation).

According to the @Nintendo's JPN release schedule, Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps are launching on the… Wii U Virtual Console? today in Japan. Links lead to 404s.

• Banjo-Kazooie: https://t.co/2RkttmDO6K
• Blast Corps: https://t.co/picENyxY8e https://t.co/RSkaDOeI3W https://t.co/OTUMz3EIZY pic.twitter.com/enFr5RcXYs
— Gematsu (@gematsucom) December 30, 2020

Whether this means that Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps could be coming to the Switch at a later date is unknown. It would make sense for N64 games to be available via Switch Online next, even if they end up being ones now owned by Microsoft.

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