Nintendo Switch Virtual Console hinted at in eShop Javascript code

Nintendo Switch Virtual Console hinted at in eShop Javascript code

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https://www.techradar.com/news/nintendo-switch-virtual-console-hinted-at-in-eshop-javascript-code

While Nintendo has been rather firm in its stance on the lack of a Virtual Console service for Nintendo Switch, its back-end operations suggest otherwise. A keen-eyed software designer has found references to Virtual Console game platform categories within the Nintendo eShop’s publicly available JSON readout, a file format for web-based JavaScript code.

The software designer goes by KevDoy on Twitter, where they have shared the findings. The JSON file includes the following string of code, highlighted by KevDoy in the below tweet: