Landstalker coming to the virtual console “soon”

Sega sent over an e-mail confirming what the ESRB let us know early: Shinobi III and Landstalker are coming to the virtual console. Usually, when Sega sends over these notes the games appear within a month. I wonder if this will be the spark to ignite Climax to develop more stalkers games. After Time Stalkers was panned it seemed like the series was going to disappear forever.