Nintendo’s Enigmatic Plans: A Deep Dive into the Switch Digital Console Rumors

Before Nintendo’s online subscription service gained traction, fans were looking forward to a time when they could acquire and download the company’s classic games to enjoy at their leisure through the Virtual Console service.

Although this was ultimately superseded by the tiered retro collection in Switch Online, it appears that Nintendo had ambitions to expand upon the original Virtual Console service by introducing online functionality. This information emerges from “a recent leak of iQue emails” according to Yakumono’s Blog, shared by dataminer (and Nintendo Life contributor) LuigiBlood.