Topic: Nintendo GameCube - Nintendo Classics

@judaspete I'd think that the only way that problem gets fixed is by not doing time-limited license deals in the first place.

That'd mean no film and TV spinoffs, no recognizable music and no celebrity endorsements but I'd think that that's a small price for games that can be kept on the market indefinitely.

Failing that, publishers and developers are just relegating their games to the high seas, for future generations, by acting in the way that they do.

I think Burnout and Burnout 2 could be on NSO, the cars are fictional and the music is original (?).
It would just depend on EA.

@Rodolfo6493 So in other words, never. EA has never seemed to care about Nintendo systems.

@ElRoberico EA, like any company, likes money. I think they would like the idea of ​​profiting from games that are more than 20 years old.
I don't know how much effort Nintendo puts into securing licenses for third-party NSO games, or if the companies themselves offer their games (for example, I don't imagine Nintendo has taken the initiative to secure licenses for Acclaim older games).

@Rodolfo6493 EA does care about money, but like a lot of other companies, they'd probably just release them on their own, like a lot of third party companies did after the Wii VC days.

Eh, EA likes money, but they also hold grudges. My supposition, albeit unproven, is that its not a coincidence that "Nintendo declined EA's offer to run the online storefront for Nintendo" was followed by "EA provides crappy support for Nintendo platforms, for years".

To be slightly fair to EA (something I don't generally want to do), I just assume Nintendo doesn't pay super well for NSO releases and remasters would almost certainly be more profitable, and in a way that most people would like and in some ways maybe even prefer to NSO emulation. (though its also possible they'd rush out a bad, overpriced remaster that's objectively worse than the original)

@kkslider5552000 I'd think that Nintendo are occasionally capable of writing a blank cheque or two to get games onto NSO, as they'd have certainly had to do that with GoldenEye and Sonic 2, but for the most part it does seem to be games that they own outright or are obscure enough that the rights holders would let them go for a song.

Burnout just sits in that awkward middle ground. It's neither a signature game for the platform nor something that EA would willingly offer up for peanuts. Hence it's unlikely unless they decide to remaster it themselves.

At least you can already play Burnout Paradise on Switch, and it goes pretty cheap whenever there's a sale on.

So does anyone else wanna see gotcha force on here or is it just me?

I hope we get the following GameCube games in the future:
1. Metroid Prime 2
2. Star Fox Adventures
3. Pokemon Channel
4. Zelda Ocarina of Time/ Master Quest (Preorder bonus original given for Wind Waker)
5. Kirby’s Air Ride
6. 007 games from EA (Not expecting them though)
7. Mario Party 4-7
8. Mario Kart Double Dash
9. Donkey Konga
10. Super Smash Bros Melee

I’m curious whether GameCube games like Metroid Prime, Pikmin 1 and 2 and Paper Mario Thousand Year Door will get released on NSO given all of them had a remastered re-release on the Switch.

@Don I would love to see Star Fox Adventures come to NSO. It was developed by Rare, so I dunno if Nintendo would have to jump through a few hoops to make it happen.

I think it's possible that Metroid Prime and both Pikmin games could be released. Super Mario Sunshine is getting an NSO release and that got a Switch version via Super Mario 3D All-stars.

I'm curious to see if we'll eventually get Nintendo's more mature games. I'd love to see Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and Geist make an appearance on NSO.

I wonder if Diddy Kong Racing would be tricky too? I noticed on Nintendo Today! they didn't include any boxart or footage of the N64 version in their "games released today thing" :-/ Not sure if it's because of copyright reasons or if Nintendo would just prefer to pretend that game doesn't exist because they're not keen on it or because Diddy Kong is surrounded by a bunch of Rare characters instead of Nintendo ones.

Either way I feel like it doesn't bode well for any NSO or Nintendo Music releases

@Bentleyma
Nintendo should own the game, Rare has never been a problem with the Donkey Kong games. While the standards are different with Rare’s own games, SFA should fall under the same category as DKC

@Megas75 That's true! I forgot about the Donkey Kong games. Fingers crossed it'll get released eventually. Although at the speed that Nintendo is currently releasing GameCube games, I doubt we'll see it for years.