UPDATE! Megaton Virtual console subscription incoming?! Emily Rogers hinting at secret sauce in that 8.0 3ds update...?

[the_dengle]

phaedruss said:

the_dengle said:

I'm far from confident that anything will come of this, though it is just suspicious enough to intrigue me.

If I were a betting man, I would bet that Nintendo doesn't have the infrastructure to stream Virtual Console games to 50 million 3DS owners around the world. Some sort of cross-buy plan, on the other hand, does sound like something they would do in time. They've been talking a lot about unifying their home and portable platforms lately. And just a few weeks ago, we got this tidbit:

 

 

Who said anything about streaming?

How else do you propose a subscription-based service would work?