I am a fairly substantial Nintendo fanboy. I may have strayed from the SNES and N64, but the NES was my formative console, and I've had every portable they have produced (unless you count the Virtual Boy). When the Wii came out, one of my major reasons for purchasing it was the potential to play all of those back-catalogue games near and dear to my heart through the Virtual Console. It has been a joy rediscovering old favorites, and being able to play through "Super Mario Brothers 3" again takes me back to my brother and I sitting in our family room negotiating with our mom over how many levels we could complete before we absolutely had to come in for dinner.
So, as a man who spends his life on the road, I want to be able to take this nostalgia with me. Considering the available horsepower of the DS combined with its WiFi capabilities, I am dismayed to not be able to have my Virtual Console locker be portable. My dream setup would be that I could transfer my VC titles from my Wii to my DS via wireless connectivity or have access to a DS store via WiFi for purchasing on the go. Nintendo already has licensing deals in place to provide catalogue access to systems like the Genesis, TurboGrafx 16, Neo Geo, etc., and could offer handheld consoles from the portable timeline like Lynx, Neo Geo Pocket, Game Gear, and all the rest. Additionally, Nintendo could leverage their kiosks and WiFi download locations as distribution points for VC. They have great infrastructure already in place that they could leverage to help roll out DS Virtual Console access to the masses. Nintendo could offer a unified mobile platform for all classic gaming.
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