Talk:List of Virtual Console games for Wii (North America)/Archives/2011/February

3DS Virtual Console launch
An anon IP attempts to add info stating that the Virtual Console service for Nintendo 3DS will be available at system launch. After a couple of attempts to add this without citing a source, the IP returned with a good-faith effort, citing a piece on Nintendo Life. The NL story provides, as its source, an article on IGN.

The problem, specifically, is in the excerpted paragraph from the IGN piece used in the NL piece. As of the time of this post, the statement on IGN doesn't match what NL has posted. If you compare, the first sentences match, but where NL says "Nintendo has clarified that the Virtual Console will be available immediately upon the launch of the 3DS", IGN says "Nintendo has revealed that a worldwide update, scheduled for late May, will enable some of this functionality, most notably the eShop (including the Virtual Console) and DSi-to-3DS data transfer." NL is supposedly quoting IGN, and NL even links directly the cited page on IGN, but they aren't matching. In such a case, it would appear that the NL story is incorrect, and thus isn't a reliable source. Going a bit further, NL says that Nintendo America has said it would launch with the system, but their own website hasn't been updated to reflect this (click on "Download Classic Games & More").

Again, in all fairness, this is at the time I'm posting this. I'm guessing it's potentially possible that an update to IGN's story (which makes the statement that NL is attributing to it) hasn't made it to the server from which my browser pulled the story. But, in much the same way as a improperly quoted source is handled here, I'm afraid I'd have to do the same with the Nintendo Life story, since its source doesn't say what NL says it does.

-- McDoob AU  93  07:22, 12 February 2011 (UTC)