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My main hope with the Switch is that they can get a real virtual console off the ground that supports they're entire back catalog. Putting out the new Zelda for Wii U and the Switch gives me hope. But Nintendo's history with online services is pretty abysmal. They're were several Wii U games I wanted to play, but the console had zero appeal for me.

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For the first time (starting in the fall), Nintendo will be charging subscription fees for its online multiplayer service. So expectations and pressure will be on more than ever. I want to believe.

Me too. The only thing that concerns me is that we're a little over a month out from launch and they're being pretty cagey about the details.

I mean, if Nintendo was run by competent people, they would include access to the entire NES/SNES Virtual Console catalog as long as you maintained a subscription to their service.

But this is Nintendo we are talking about, so instead we get a month long rental of one single game at a time.

The 3DS can do that. They made an emulator that runs on it and they sell Gameboy games on the store. I know nothing about the pricing though.

Considering the NES Classic is also an ARM chip I think there's a very good chance of this happening.

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