What was first, Xbox Live Arcade or Wii Virtual Console?

[thatmariolover]

The virtual console is designed to allow new games to be made for it and offered through the download service.

Nobody's taken advantage of it yet.

/sigh

At any rate, Nintendo's had a download service longer, certainly. They've had the SNES flashcarts you could get through the Japanese Nintendo Power. Just pay something like 7 bucks, pick the game you want to play and get a flashcart back with the game on it. They used to even have kiosks in stores that could copy the games so you didn't have to mail them off.

As for the virtual console, I really think that Nintendo based more of it on the Xbox Live Arcade than the other way around.