Xbrawl, I hate to say it....But it'll take a long time for Nintendo to overtake Microsoft for the downloadable games market.
Nintendo has sold an estimated $62.5m in Virtual Console sales since launch. The Xbox Live Arcade service has sold more than double that since it's inception - and grossed more revenue in 2007 than VC has done, LTD.
And that's fairly telling, atleast to me: We're talking Zelda, Mario, and other uber-IPs that have most likely sold the bulk of that (look at Sonic on XBLA to see how well comparibles have done - fairly well).
But when WiiWare comes up, it faces more problems than PSN and XBLA face - memory limitations, lower userbase, and unknown game sizes - how many WiiWare titles is a person going to fit on a 512mb internal card that already has VC games on it, and save states?
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
