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"The Virtual Console successor is Nintendo Switch Online" - Reggie Fils-Aime

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Sorry if this has already been posted.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/06/...witch-online-as-the-virtual-console-successor

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"The Virtual Console successor is Nintendo Switch Online, right? With the mentality that says we're going to be offering a slate of games, and it's a slate that's going to increase over time. For many of these games, there's going to be additional online capability provided in those games. That's the vision we have for how to best bring our legacy content to Nintendo Switch."

"We do [believe people will subscribe], and I say that because what we've laid out is a proposition where, yes you get the competitive play accessibility, you also get the cloud save, and you get access to the legacy content," Fils-Aime said. "That's a fantastic proposition for $20 a year. We believe that it's not going to be any type of issue for us. In fact, it's going to enable us to continue offering a varied slate of opportunities from an online experience standpoint."

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Is this the first time they've confirmed that there'll be online capability in "many", not presumably not all the games offered? Up to this point I had figured they had ONLY said "we're going to be offering classic games with online!" - To me this says they'll be offering more games that don't offer online as well. Netflix style virtual console..confirmed? (but not actually)
 
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Dorfdad

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I hope we get some graphical improvements like emulators offer. Tried donkey Kong and it hasn't aged well especially against emulation.
 
Novel Mike

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I'll believe it when I see it. Starting out with just NES games has me not thinking very highly on what me ultimately might get for this. I get the feeling it'll take months or longer for us to get SNES games, hell maybe up to a full year and N64 longer after that.

Adding online play is certainly cool but for me it won't matter until we get to N64 games, theres where the dream is to me. Mario Kart 64, Mario Party 2 and 3, Bomberman 64, all with online? That sounds amazing which is why we either will never see it or it'll take them several years for it to actually happen.
 
TubaZef

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I would be ok with it since the games are included in the Nintendo online fee, which is pretty cheap.
BUT Nintendo has this history of handling the Virtual Console very badly, with 1 new NES game per week and once in a while adding a SNES and N64 game to the library. If they can offer more titles, than it could be a great thing.
 

bdwnfn99

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How did E3 come and go and we received pretty much zero new news on the online service? This does not give me any new confidence
 
LewieP

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"Thanks for buying all those Virtual Console releases. Now please subscribe to this service to get access to some of those games you already bought multiple times"
 
PCPace

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TubaZef said:
I would be ok with it since the games are included in the Nintendo online fee, which is pretty cheap.
BUT Nintendo has this history of handling the Virtual Console very badly, with 1 new NES game per week and once in a while adding a SNES and N64 game to the library. If they can offer more titles, than it could be a great thing.
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Probably going to offer much less than one a week. Probably every few months you'll see a handful of new titles go up since they seem to be doing some kind of modification to each game individually
 
CaviarMeths

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If the selection of games grows to be the size of the Wii VC or larger, then I would certainly consider it a bargain at $20/yr.

It's got a long ass way to go though. Launching with 20 NES games is a poor value.
 
rochellepaws

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I'm amazed they were content to launch their online service so poorly. No big online game launching with it and the retro collection only containing NES games isn't exactly going to have people reaching into their wallets.
 
EinBear

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In theory, this sounds great. A Netflix style service allowing access to Nintendo's entire back catalogue sounds well worth £20 a year.

I'm just pretty convinced that they'll launch with 10 NES games or something, and drip feed the rest out over the next 5 years.
 
RionaaM

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Fuck, VC is dead for me then. I don't want to rent games, I want to buy and keep them forever.
 
Edge

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He means the free game that we get every month?

Great, so after 2 years we will have a massive library of 24 games. Amazing.
 
PlayBee

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Dorfdad said:
I hope we get some graphical improvements like emulators offer. Tried donkey Kong and it hasn't aged well especially against emulation.
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Uhh what sort of graphical improvements are you expecting through emulation of an entirely sprite based game aside from clean upscaling?
 
Blackleg-sanji1

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I'm convinced this probably would've went better to a lot of people if the didn't launch with nes games of all things throw 10 n64/gamecube classics up there first I imagine you'd get a lot better reception shit they'd get it from me at least
 
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