Rumour: Switch Virtual Console Was Apparently Nintendo’s “Original Plan”

What if?

by Liam Doolan Yesterday, 5:30am

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo LifeBefore Nintendo’s subscription service took off, fans were able to individually buy and download the company’s retro titles and play them whenever they wanted thanks to the Virtual Console service.

Although this was eventually replaced with Switch Online’s tier-based retro library, Nintendo apparently had plans to carry over the existing Virtual Console service and add online functionality. This information comes from “a new leak of iQue emails not too long ago” according to Yakumono’s Blog, run by dataminer (and Nintendo Life user) LuigiBlood.