You yourself said "why would they?"

Nordlead questioned the possibility of it ever happening.  Majin stated that there's no demand and therefore no reason (which can be assumed wrong given the aforementioned information).

Read the full sentence.

Apparently, you fail to understand what your own words imply. Yes, you said they never announced it. THEN you said, "and why would they", which would imply that they have no reason to announce/release any DSi VC. If that's not what you meant, then I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. But in that case, you also chose your words horribly.

And if you're going to try saying that the whole "remake" thing works as a valid argument, do you REALLY think that people will buy retail releases of classic handheld titles?

The clause referred to still falls under his logic - that is to say, doing this would be simpler, easier, cheaper, and be an added feature for the hardware.

The Nintendo Classic line did not do fantastically.

Chrono Trigger DS.

Nintendo has already said they're cutting back on Virtual Console with the Wii, in favor of WiiWare services, which are more popular (and generate much more profit).

I highly doubt they're going to try to push a similar service for the DSi. Simply because the DS doesn't need it. The reason Wii needed a Virtual Console type service was because in its first year, it had hardly any games and needed a good boost of past Nintendo titles to generate attention and placate the 'hardcore' gamers. The DSI doesn't have that problem, with tons of existing DS games and a growing DSiWare support.

That article was a fake.

It better have been.

...A-are you sure?

100%?  No.  Reasonably certain? Yes.

Unless we're to believe that Nintendo gives canned responses to high profile gaming websites and personalized responses to random bloggers, I think it's really unlikely that article was legitimate.

http://vc.nintendolife.com/news/2009/07/nintendo_rep_virtual_console_being_toned_down

It seemed pretty real to me.  Unless you saw a different one.