Topic: Do you think ds games will ever come to the eshop

It is possible with the two screens but is nintendo likely to do it since the ds era is over and the 3ds era is over they could revamp their sales one more time

Maybe one day.......

If you're talking 3ds, we still need GBA games. Probably not though because it's backwards compatable already.

im talking wii u

If DS games were on the WiiU eShop, they would look like this.

They should have retail downloadable versions of DS games for 3DS. I thought they should've done that with Pokemon B2/W2. As for Wii U, I think it would be wiser to make a "3DS player"; kind of like the Super Game Boy or the GBA player.

I think nintendo had intentions to do it thats another reason why theres two screens and the bottom ones touch screen nintendo would be very smart to do this

well i download all my 3ds games so how would nintendo let me send my games over or would nintendo screw me over and make me buy physical copies of each game they need to just release each game on e shop system of choice for example luigis mansion dark moon it could cost 59.99 on wii u and one 3ds 39.99 people would still buy both systems 3ds for 3d feature and price and wii u for tv and gamepad function then again they could do cloud gaming like you make an account for all your downloaded content then you can take it to any system you choose also maybe nintendo should release a 3d gamepad sold seperately dony has already made a 3d playstation display tv nintendo is 2 steps forward and 3 steps back

Maybe around the year 2025.

yeah definetely by then

If I got a dollar for every time this was suggested on this website, I'd be able to afford a Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One, and every game available on them as of 12/29/13 at 12:30 A.M.

Never say never!
There were Gameboyplayer "upgrades" for SNES and GC. I Mean there was one for GC and for Wii none. According To my "genious" rule there should be one coming in the late lifecircle of Wii u.

Not gonna happen.

There were also Game Boy adapters for NES and N64, but Nintendo only made those for themselves (they sued someone who tried to make an unlicensed retail GB clone for the NES, though). I've read about the NES one and I have seen the N64 device. Either that or Nintendo themselves was using a bunch of Chinese adapters (I saw the cart label and it wasn't in English, probably not Japanese as I think even in Japan Nintendo always gave their hardware English names) for this Pokemon tournament. (I got pwned by some 8-year-old so I didn't win the prize of challenging Team Nintendo on the TVs, using one of the N64s they had sitting it boxes with said mystery cart. )
Nintendo probably broke the cycle on the DS/Wii generation. I've heard rumors that by then Nintendo was using their own private emulator as a means of testing games without having to spend all day on a portable.

I could see them start to come to the 3DS eShop much later in the 3DS's life.

Maybe it will come true in the future.

Some DS games are already in the eshop: DSiWares, 3DS downloads and even Retail Downloads of DS ports on the 3DS.

VC is barely happening... No way anything else will happen.

im not sure if the 3ds would ever get downloadable ds retail games. its true that you can get dsi ware from the eshop, but this was software designed to be downloadable from the start. its also true that you can play ds games on the 3ds in ds mode, but when it is in that mode it locks down all the 3ds features. is it possible they could make a mode that locks down just enough features to allow a digital ds game to be played? probably. is it worth it for nintendo to do that? probably not. and if they did it might just open the door a crack for 3ds homebrew to sneak in. not a risk they would be willing to take, especially when you can still play the physical ds games on the system.

now will ds games ever come to the wii u e shop? its likely, but not for a long time. the ds is still very popular at this moment, so physical sales and used sales are still good. why would they want to try and compete with used sales? it wouldnt be worth it for them to offer ds games at that low of a price, or they wouldnt have enough sales. and would you really want ds games stretched out on your tv? to my knowledge there was one ds game ported to the wii shop, one of the ace attorney games. we thought it was a new ace attorney game and were disappointed, not to mention it didnt look very good and was small.