I swore off video games a long time ago but the technology is still amazing.  A friend of mine sent me this link which briefly describes a patent filed by Nintendo (here).  One interesting snippet from the patent is something which possibly hints at abilities similar to those of the iQue:

[0055] a modem 136 or other networking interface (which may in turn connect system 100 to a telecommunications network 138 such as the Internet or other digital network from/to which program instructions and/or data can be downloaded or uploaded), and

With Nintendo's release of the iQue to China this is very promising since it might enable us Americans to download are old fav SNES roms to play again:) More on the iQue here