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Conina said:

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.

What I am trying to tell you is it is not free for Nintendo to make these games available.  It takes manpower, time, and money.  It seems as though Nintendo has decided that their resources are better spent mostly elsewhere right now.



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