The Nintendo 3DS eShop allows players to download Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, and a select few NES games. As of September 29, 2017, it has been announced that the Wii Shop Channel is to be discontinued in 2019, which the purchase of Wii Points ending in March 2018.

As of December 2007, over ten million Virtual Console titles have been downloaded. Virtual Console Arcade allows players to download video arcade games. The Wii's library of past games currently consists of titles originating from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Nintendo 64, as well as Sega's Master System and Mega Drive/Genesis, NEC's TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD, SNK's Neo Geo AES, Commodore 64 (Europe and North America only) and MSX (Japan only). These titles are run in their original forms through software emulation, which in some cases, particularly Nintendo 64 titles, is unable to faithfully replicate certain graphical and technical features.

The Virtual Console ( バーチャルコンソール, Bācharu Konsōru ?) (sometimes abbreviated as VC) is an online service for the Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS that allows players to purchase and download games originally released for past Nintendo game consoles.

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