Will SNES games ever come to the 3DS eShop?

[theRepublic]

Conina said:

theRepublic said:

Why would more Virtual Console games increase console sales?  There is no reason for that to be the case.  People buy new hardware for new games.  Not to play old games.

Some people buy new hardware for new and old games. The world is not black and white and your gaming preferences aren't everyone's preferences.

And I would bet that there are more nostalgic Nintendo fans than nostalgic Playstation or Xbox fans out there, which would love to play classics now and then on their actual device.

I already said that there is a market for it.  The question is, "How big is the market?"

No one buys a new console just to play old games.  They by it to play new games, or new games and some old games.

Clearly, Nintendo has a lot of fans of their old games.  The thing is, these are games that a lot of people have already played, and they are of course old, so they are not worth that much.  Nintendo has only been charging $10 at most, right?  And there is a nontrival amount of work that goes into getting these games running.  Work that Nintendo already has experience in.  My guess is the already have a pretty good idea of the return on investment and profit margins they make on these Virtual Console games.  Clearly, it is not a high priorty for them.  It seems they would rather concentrate on selling new games at higher prices and I can't really blame them.

Would it be nice to have a huge back-catalog of Virtual Console games available?  Absolutely.  Do I expect it to happen?  No, not really.  Should we have a problem with Nintendo not focusing on this issue?  Again no, not really.