According to Natsume, the renowned dev studio responsible for a number of golden oldies, Nintendo has no more interest in the 16-bit realm. Engadget spotted the following quotes on the company’s Facebook page:

Will the two Pocky & Rocky SNES games ever be re-released on the Virtual Console?
– @ominiq (Twitter)

“At this point, it’s unlikely we’ll see any other Natsume SNES games coming to the Virtual Console, as Nintendo’s interest has moved onto other classic systems.“

And when asked if Lufia (another SNES gem) would be made available, Natsume said “If it’s not up now it’s not coming”.

Natsume went on to discuss how Nintendo handles the politics behind the Virtual Console service. Nintendo has full discretion over which games are added, and publishers work alongside the company to strategize price points and brainstorm which games will sell best.

Ultimately Nintendo does the “bulk of the work”, and if Natsume can be believed, the Japanese games maker just doesn’t want to deal with SNES any more.

Keep in mind that this news hasn’t been confirmed and no one knows for sure if Nintendo has halted Super Nintendo VC games.

Read More at Original Source: http://www.vrworld.com/2015/04/26/nintendo-abandoing-snes-virtual-console-games/

Wtf.
Why the hell would they do that?

If this is true, that'd be a real shame, but at least SNES VC already has a good library, including Super Metroid and EarthBound.

Eh, nothing surprises me with Nintendo these days -_-

Maybe I'm wrong on this, but once they have the emulator running on the console, is really that difficult just adding the ROMs on the eShop, or the games have to be adapted individually? After years of people emulating their titles, it doesn't seem difficult to do so.

Low sales can be the only reason surely.

that sucks. oh well less money for Nintendo

I hope they bring them to the 3ds

You still have to give the game a full QA.  There's always a chance the game won't work.  If the game doesn't work then there'll be hell to pay for Nintendo.  This goes for Sony and Microsoft.

Well that sucks. Don't know what they're thinking with this one.