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Nintendo Switch’s Virtual Console is Missing Launch Day

ByRuaraidh Dempster 23 February 2017

The Nintendo Switch is barely over a week away – and it can’t seem to stop losing launch products. After yesterday’s announcement that The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ won’t make it to launch, today, Nintendo have confirmed the virtual console feature won’t be ready either.

While the digital eShop will be available straight away on March 3rd, you won’t be able to purchase any games from older consoles. Nintendo fail to share any reasoning why this is the case, nor when they believe it will become available: “we will share more information in the future.”

For most, it won’t be too much of a problem – everyone and their nearest Switch owner will be playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But it is indicative of a further problem; without Zelda there really isn’t that much else to do at launch.

So it seems we are going to have to wait just a little bit longer to see how exactly the Switch’s virtual console will work. After all, we still don’t know whether owners of games from previous consoles will get a discount when buying a new copy.

Ruaraidh Dempster

Ruaraidh - pronounced Roo-Ree - is a Scottish gamer with the name and games to prove it. He enjoys mostly everything, unless it involves exercise, and much prefers to run around inside a good, open-world RPG, being chased across the lands by a horde of monsters after his sweet loot. When he has made his escape, he will often return to the real world to continue playing anything with a good story - indie or otherwise.