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Nintendo, there is seriously no excuse for no SNES app on Switch by now.
- Thread starter Uzumaki Goku
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Like the other subscription services, the majority of users are going to be for online play. The nes giveaway is just them doing the absolute bare minimum because others include games in the services.
If SNES happens, it'll be near the time the first year sub renews are due. They probably won't actually make that much money from the Netflix style model people asked for, hence the low priority of it even compared to the Wii U virtual console. Monkey's paw wishes and all.
As great as their E3 show was, and it was, I was genuinely disappointed they didn't announce SNES there.
I've 100% given up on that, even though that's my dream scenario.
Why do you expect it? Where's the PS1 app on ps4? Where's the og Xbox app on Xbox one? Why do you expect this from Nintendo but not the others?
Frustration is fine, but why do some people see this as such a mystery? Nintendo has created a model where its older library of games is tied to a subscription service. We know this. They don't have much incentive early on to flood the virtual platform with games unless a) subscriptions are expiring, b) they want to promote NSO and new SNES games for, say, the holidays, c) NES library has nothing else to offer.
Nintendo creates value with scarcity. The slower they introduce SNES and N64 games to NSO, the more impact each will have.
Nintendo creates value with scarcity. The slower they introduce SNES and N64 games to NSO, the more impact each will have.
This is weird...
3ds, wii and wii u did it. The last 3 Nintendo consoles did it. Why is it strange to expect it? Heck, Nintendo even said it was possible to come to Switch?
Why do you want to compare to the competition especially Sony. They did it with psvita, ps2, psp et cetera and the got a lot of bad words not doing it for ps4.
Microsoft is doing it best. Upscaling, better performance, free. They are the best. Would be nice if Nintendo learns something from them ;)
Just watch them give a free game like Tetris and walk away without SNES.
If this makes you feel better, Sony has been utter shit at managing their legacy library on PS4, and I certainly hope they do better with PS5. Now that it's out of the way, can we get back to no SNES being a terrible thing.
even if it does happen...just 2 games a month will not cut it. It would take years to have a decent SNES library
I Really have the urge to replay the 3 donkey Kong countries and Mario rpg and super punchout
Maybe they'll announce it when the Switch Lite is out and they need all those new buyers to subscribe to NSO.
It was cool to have games on the Virtual Console for when you wanted them. But how many did you actually end up buying? I grabbed a few games on the Wii, a few fewer games on the WiiU, and, like, one Virtual Console game on the 3DS. Not that I objected to buying more at some point ... there was just no urgency to do so, and there were always new things to spend money on.
I suspect that this sort of attitude is fairly common, and that the Virtual Console wasn't making enough money to justify incurring the costs of QA and clearing licenses. By giving the games a rest, they're building up desire for them, making it more likely that people will gobble them up when they are available (or jump onto whatever subscription they're part of, or whatever).
So that's (maybe) their excuse. I'm sure they'll drop stuff when they feel like the time is right. In the meantime ... well, there's still a ton of new stuff to spend money on. Including a lot of "nostalgic feel but modern quality of life" games that I end up spending more time playing than the classic stuff, anyway :-)
Let me buy snes and n64 games. Seriously, id pay 9.99 for link to the past lol just so i can play it on the go.
I can live with waiting as long as Nintendo is future proofing this so it can continue straight onto the Switch 2. I'll be pissed if Nintendo announces NSO is reverting to NES games a month with the Switch 2 and we have to start all over again.
Oh god... they're gonna do that aren't they?
Oh god... they're gonna do that aren't they?
I think the NES and SNES Classic (and possibily N64 Classic) are the reason for why Nintendo isn't investing into retro stuff for Switch because they might feel they would compete against themselves.
So just because they did it on past consoles you expect it now? Nintendo promised nothing. Microsoft's bc is free, but very limited. They are doing a great job with it, I agree. But to expect snes games based on something they once offered is a bit naive.
They won't even let me turn off those annoying onscreen button prompts so I have no interest in Switch as a retro platform.
I'm not sure that's the reason there are no SNES games on Switch, but I do know that the SNES Classic completely satisfied my nostalgia and obliterated my interest in having those games on Switch. That device is great, I'm not going to get excited about playing SMW on yet another console.
If we were talking about GBA games however that'd be a different story.
Their online offers are honestly fucking pathetic, what's worse is that they have around 10 million active subscribers and that's all they have to offer? Their switch software is good but their online offers seem to have regressed even though they are charging money now. I don't expect them to wake up from their slumber any time soon though and that makes the whole situation even worse.
Hey, if they actually put more balloon fight on there I'd take back any bad things I said about the service.
By this I mean the Balloon Fight GB game, especially the colorized version that was only available at specific GB kiosks in Japan to be used with rewriteable cartridges
The excuse is timing with the holidays more than likely.
Plus they don't seem to be doing new licencing deals for stuff that was on Virtual Console. Everything released for NES on Switch is first party.
Plus they don't seem to be doing new licencing deals for stuff that was on Virtual Console. Everything released for NES on Switch is first party.
The one and the same. "Balloon Fight GB" is, looking it up, what the Japanese GBC version is called, though I think the title is rendered in katakana.
The excuse is that when Nintendo wants to goose their share price, they just need to announce an SNES Collection and it'll go through the roof for a quarter or two. Similar to what they did with no Mario game on mobile phones.
Seems like a classic case of entitled "fans" acting entitled. I want SNES player as much as the next guy but the OPs attitude represents the worst side of gaming culture.
If NSO was a flop we probably would have SNES games by now. But Nintendo is making money, so they see no reason to do anything different than what they've planned. Consumers are justifying their direction.
Expecting anything from Nintendo is a classic mistake, you should know better by now. There's no guarantee they're even working on it.
What? That's not true at all. We have things like ghost and goblins and gradius that are from third parties.
I thought they were published by Nintendo, but I could be wrong.
Probably ? That's one of the worst kept secret in the history of gaming, you just have to look at what Steam did for the PC. Unfortunately, good luck explaining that to Nintendo higher-up. I can't wait for the old asses to retire and the new blood taking their place.
Nintendo could dominate more if they play for keeps and give the switch many of the ideas from their pass gaming devices. would love a lot of the virtual console stuff on the Switch.