Will SNES games ever come to the 3DS eShop?

[Conina]

theRepublic said:

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.

The old games are not system sellers, but cumulative they can be system justifiers: "The new console/handheld has only 2 new titles, that interest me, but it has also a great selection of classics for the systems X, Y and Z. Many of them, I want to play again, some of them I always wanted to play, but got distracted by other games"

And there is a nontrivial amount of work to get the games running? Depends totally on the system. The Wii U can handle every Wii game, so why not put every good Wii game in the eShop? The 3DS can handle every DS game, so why not put every good DS game in the eShop? For every other system, they have to make an emulator once which covers the whole software library... they could hire some talents from the homebrew communities for that and provide them insight in the detailed hardware and software specifications.

Anything up to SNES should be no problem for the 3DS, even N64-games could be possible... Sony managed PS1 emulation on the slower PSP.