Tue, Mar 24, 2009 | 06:50 GMT
Rumour: DSi to get Virtual Console for Game Boy games
Kombo’s rumouring that DSi’s to get a Virtual Console system for downloading Game Boy and GBA games.
Apparently this has come from Nintendo reps at a US pre-launch DSi event.
The games will be saved to DSi’s SD card and will be limited to first-party Nintendo games, at least initially.
There’s no official word on this yet.
DSi launches on April 5 in the US and April 3 in Europe.
Thanks, Kotaku.
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Posted in: DSi, Nintendo, Rumour, Virtual Console
Tags: game boy, game boy advance
3 comments
#1
Blerk
24/03/09, 8:57 am
Well that’d get around the lack of a GBA port. And also force everyone to rebuy all the games they already own. Nintendo does it again!
#2
trav
24/03/09, 11:07 am
That would be interesting though. Games like Golden Sun which are hard to find nowadays would be a welcome addition to the catalogue.
We all scoffed at the Virtual Console on the Wii, but I ended up buying a fair few SNES, N64 games on the service.
Be nice if Nintendo added the SNES, Mega Drive and below back catalogues to the DSi as well, but that won’t happen.
#3
Blerk
24/03/09, 11:28 am
True. Apart from the Golden Sun bit. What a crap game.