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Nintendo reconfirms NES/SNES Classic will be gone after holidays, Switch Online main place for legacy content moving forward
- Thread starter Atheerios
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It'd be nice to have more than a pittance of legacy content on Switch Online, then. We need more than NES stuff, for one.
It's been pretty weird seeing people assume Nintendo won't release anything past nes games just because.
It's interesting that by the end of December the nes online will have about ad many games as the nes Classic did, wonder how much more till they move on to newer platforms.
It's interesting that by the end of December the nes online will have about ad many games as the nes Classic did, wonder how much more till they move on to newer platforms.
I'm still fairly confident that
- SNES games will added to the Switch Online sub soon, possibly with GB/GBC/GBA games being added later once the 3DS finally gets discontinued.
- N64, Gamecube, and Wii games will start being sold individually without the VC banner.
- Mother 3 is still coming, though it might be a full remake considering how long it's been.
Starting with only Super Mario Kart and like, Yoshi's Island. LttP added about 3 months later. SMW and Earthbound like two months after that.
Kind of, that was the original plan, but I believe they announced the decision to keep the SNES Classic on sale for another year before it even launched.
Guess no, retro games for me then. Shame really as I wanted to play the Donkey Kong Country series and Earthbound in portable mode. :(
I may be really petty, but I can't bring myself to play these games on the Online service because of the button prompts on the bottom of the screen, I find it really cheesy looking.
I'm sure there's a NSO family group slot thread on here?
Saw a bunch of 'em at Best Buy over the weekend so get 'em while you can.
Or heck buy a dozen to scalp later when they become scarce once more.
Or heck buy a dozen to scalp later when they become scarce once more.
Subscription only, but relatively cheap with $20 a year or minimal $4.40 a year if you find 8 people for the "family" membership, cheaper than a single Wii/WiiU/3DS VC game.
in theory this is a cool idea but there's no way they're going to offer a good enough catalog to satisfy everyone on $20 a year, esp if they're splitting their efforts between NES/SNES/hopefully more... restricting NES/SNES to the subscription and offering N64+ as standalone purchases would be alright with me; still offering some incentive to buy into the online while making more off the "more valuable, recent" titles. too bad that's never happening!
I think N64 will still get the classic streaming games treatment if only because they're so small. You could load every worthwhile N64 game that Nintendo could easily get the license for into less than a gig nowadays, probably.
So about that N64 Classic Mini...?
Edit: A Gamecube Mini with Wavebirds and Melee wouldn't hurt either :p
Edit: A Gamecube Mini with Wavebirds and Melee wouldn't hurt either :p
The cost of the classic consoles is a combined $140. That buys about 7 years of service theoretically. If the Nintendo online service games don't give me a fair value over the two classic consoles over the next 7 years then it will have truly been a failure. For now I'm not really stressed about something that amounts to less than $2 a month.
Fine by me. I don't think NCL realised how popular at least the NES Mini was going to be, so not surprised they didn't have significant long term plans.
In a few years, I can see them re-releasing one or the other at some anniversary with some different games though, just for funsies, and wouldn't affect their online shop.
In a few years, I can see them re-releasing one or the other at some anniversary with some different games though, just for funsies, and wouldn't affect their online shop.
I've been tempted for a while as I have the SNES Classic. This news has made me crack.
Amazon UK have them for £48 with Prime delivery if anyone wants one now. Great price as they were £80 a year ago.
Amazon UK have them for £48 with Prime delivery if anyone wants one now. Great price as they were £80 a year ago.
Maybe we'll see the N64 Classic or others (Game Boy?) when they have another empty holiday season. That seems to be the original impetus behind the original NES Classic coming out after Wii U fizzled and Switch had yet to launch.
So far it's been a pretty poor effort on the Switch. Hopefully they have plans to speed up the releases.
I hope you are ready for another chance to play through Super Mario World.