Man, retouched snes games with online ability is a dream. Shame nintendo cant implement a lobby system on this service. Dont even have to talk to randoms.
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Nintendo reconfirms NES/SNES Classic will be gone after holidays, Switch Online main place for legacy content moving forward
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Same.
I love NES and SNES games, and I just want a shitload of them on my Switch.
I look forward to playing all of them as they are trickle-fed to the service over the next 50 years.
Lol, so many high hopes in here for the online lineups. Like we havent been shafted two generations in a row for virtual console, but SURE, Nintendo wont be shitty and SUPER slow about releasing games for this service. I TOTALLY BELIEVE THEM THIS TIME.
If the past is anything to go by, we have a year, maybe two, of real effort and then it will dry up, leaving hundreds, maybe thousands of gems unreleased.
I honestly hope I eat these words but I fucking doubt it. Nintendo has the same problem as sega, rereleasing the same handful of games over and over, leaving some real great games in the cold for almost 30 years now. It's sad and I hate it and i blame no one for looking to emulation themselves when these companies could care less.
If the past is anything to go by, we have a year, maybe two, of real effort and then it will dry up, leaving hundreds, maybe thousands of gems unreleased.
I honestly hope I eat these words but I fucking doubt it. Nintendo has the same problem as sega, rereleasing the same handful of games over and over, leaving some real great games in the cold for almost 30 years now. It's sad and I hate it and i blame no one for looking to emulation themselves when these companies could care less.
Pretty much confirms that SNES will be moving to the NSO. If they are stopping selling the classic and they say that main place to get contant will be on NSO.
I mean it was already obvious that it was coming but these holiday sales of the SNES classic might have been a reason they were holding back until it's sold out.
I mean it was already obvious that it was coming but these holiday sales of the SNES classic might have been a reason they were holding back until it's sold out.
An N64 Classic would have been a terrible idea for many reasons. Very glad they're moving away from these systems and will now put all their eggs in the Switch basket for the foreseeable future.
It would be one thing if they release all these same old games by default and then said "here is some fun new shit" but we all know its going to be "hey everyone you can finally play.... SUPER MARIO WORLD!!! ON SWITCH tune back in a few months from now for the next hot update!"
They've drip fed the same bullshit so slowly and so consistently squandered their own library, that the reason the classic systems are so exciting is you can hack them and pack them with games you actually want to play in a convenient manner.
I mean I know it's not the point of your post but Wario's Woods is a pretty fun puzzle game. In fact all 3 releases this month are solid. Nija Gaiden is a classic and I have find memories of Lolo. Of course more is always better but there aren't garbage tier titles at all.
They need to hurry up and just release titles as they're ready instead of trying to make a collection to release at once. If I have to choose between new advanced "cutting edge" hardware from other companies like Microsoft and Sony versus 20 year old games from Nintendo in 2020 then the choice is clear nostalgia only goes so far.
But they're not even doing all of them it seems like, so it's a bummer.
This is good news. Maybe eventually we'll even get Gameboy Advance, N64, and Gamecube games on the service. I'd be ok with paying a vastly higher price per year for the family membership if they had way more games and good emulation. I wonder if they could even eventually get DS games working decently.....
What are the chances that the price of these will go up once these will be out of production? Maybe I could try to grab one as I could still find a couple more of these around where I live as these aren't really popular here.
I mean, it's not like they can just release any game they want. Sure, it'd be nice if they could, but so many games are tied up in licensing knots - to speak nothing of those games which were actually based on licenses...
It certainly doesn't help that third parties have now realised the financial allure of remakes and remasters. After all, why put Mega Man on Nintendo Netflix when you can charge people for your own collection?
I won't consider Switch online until SNES games become available. They're deluded if think people like myself would ever pay actual money for their current "service".
First they have to actually start seriously making games available on Switch Online. The current library is pathetic, especially for the Switch being close to entering it's third year.
Too late for that. They've allowed publishers to do what they want with their releases on Switch both online and retail. No common feature rich emulator for releases, no uniform branding and prices and some publishers actually released some of their games on retail collection instead (SNK, Square Enix).
It's chaotic and poorly thought out like usual with Nintendo legacy and online content.
This such a hilariously bad take, I don't even know how to respond. Nintendo can't mandate what publishers do with their old games. The idea that it's Nintendo's responsibility is beyond absurd
I was originally going to hack my SNES Mini, but Nintendo's OS is so pure that I just couldn't go through with modifying it. It is slightly tempting to pick an additional one up though...
Yeah, it's a massive competitive advantage they have that they can tap into this. Netflix of retro gaming.
It might just be a generational thing for me, but a library of SNES games is when it becomes meaningful to me. The transition from NES to SNES feels to me to equate to a transition from novelty "heh" factor into "this is a genuinely enjoyable gaming experience that engages me".
Maybe that's the problem from Nintendo's standpoint, they're terrified of disengaging people from purchasing new games, particularly the indies which to more casual gamers might seem interchangeable with SNES era games.
Microsoft and Sony seems to be doing a good job at it. PSX Classics all use the same emulator and a common price fork on PSN, same for Xbox and Xbox 360 games on Xbox live. Some titles got updated releases on PSP/Vita but are still sold like FF tactics as PSX classics. What's so hilarious about that?
On Nintendo online service some are gated on their online service, some are sold as emulated versions directly sold by publishers and thus have a different feature set and price fork. It's a free for all. Maybe it should have been the hilarious first part of your response.
Those aren't the same as 3rd parties releasing retro collections, which are also on those systems and also don't follow any consistency
Trying to convince myself to buy the classic. I have the SNES classic and it's amazing for what it is, but I rarely touch it.
I'm glad mini consoles are dead, they're very overpriced here in Mexico. And honestly I don't want extra plastic just to play old games.
Bring them SNES games to Switch and I'll be happy
Bring them SNES games to Switch and I'll be happy
After people roasted them alive not just for the limited availability but also the limited timeframe, yeah.
Anytime. SMW is one of the best games of all time and a joy to play through.
It seems to be much different from the past. The VC is now a service and will probably be expanded to the Switch successor.
Many old games are impossible to be released, because of license issues or because the licence holders want to rerelease the games themselves (or just wants too much money).
You can buy any 3rd party controller or the Switch Pro if you want a D-Pad.
Or you couls get one of those D-Pad Joycon shells
Same here. I'll be honest that I haven't a clue what it will be like going forward but I was under the assumption the online service was going to gestate while these other two pieces of hardware were out. Now that they're ending perhaps the Big N will end the drip feed and focus on these classic titles coming more regularly.
I'd be quite happy to just see the regular eShop styled individually priced games again...
What honestly surprises me is that they haven't announced plans for a switch collection of the games in the classic consoles. I thought for sure we'd be seeing a NES Classic Collection and SNES Classic Collection on the E-shop with a limited physical release by now.
Of course, that would make less sense now that they've rolled out the subscription service but it seemed like such an obvious move when the NES classic was first announced.
As for the Switch Online service? It's pretty damn paltry at the moment so I hope they have plans to get more systems on the service. NES games are worthless to me at this point so they need to indicate that they are bringing SNES, GB/GBC/GBA, and N64 to the service, at minimum, quickly. (lol)
As it stands, Switch Online looks to continue to be a fucking sad replacement for VC for the foreseeable future.
Of course, that would make less sense now that they've rolled out the subscription service but it seemed like such an obvious move when the NES classic was first announced.
As for the Switch Online service? It's pretty damn paltry at the moment so I hope they have plans to get more systems on the service. NES games are worthless to me at this point so they need to indicate that they are bringing SNES, GB/GBC/GBA, and N64 to the service, at minimum, quickly. (lol)
As it stands, Switch Online looks to continue to be a fucking sad replacement for VC for the foreseeable future.
I'm content to side-load roms into my snes mini without having to pay a subscription fee to play my library.
As much as I think my classics are cool, they really need to speed up game releases and bring SNES to switch library.
Don't expect a great SNES library. Unlike NES, SNES has quite a few games totally worth playing today, many of which are better than a lot of modern indie games. That would eat into real gamer time which is the #1 resource they want. NES games aren't that good by today's standards outside of maybe SMB3 so no threat to gamer time.
If they had leadership and a clear plan from the start they could have done it though that's the point. Instead they rushed the release of the hardware without a virtual console in place so they've let publishers release their emulated ROM as they pleased without a common standard because they had nothing in place to offer them. It's also Nintendo's decision to have games sold or not on their hardware and to follow certain standards Now they've decided that their classic games will be their selling point of their crappy online service because online gaming sure won't be considering the lack of features and the app itself.
It's also 2018 where your two biggest competitors actually have good legacy support and backward compatibility on top of accounts systems where you don't need to buy the same legacy games on another hardware. It's pretty obvious about the kind of standard you can expect from PSX/PS2 classic or Xbox/360 classics and at which prices. Also non gated by a subscription service. It's not the case here at all.