Welp, I hope you guys enjoy it. I don't feel as strongly about the price or the contents as certain people, but right now there are other things I would rather spend my expendable income with (including other Switch games). Until they add more to this expansion and/or make any significant changes to the price, I'll probably only check it if they offer a trial through My Nintendo.
@GameOtaku
You have a Wii U, buy them there if you're so enamored with the VC model. If the complaint is that purchases should have carry? Well yeah, I'd agree. But what value is there complaining now when it was clear in 2017 they wouldn't carry? Hell, 3DS/Wii U wasn't cross-buy on VC so it was clear before the Switch launched
Also I can guarantee that if Wii U purchases were honoured on VC we'd be asking why we have to buy Mario Kart 8 again. Which then potentially leaves behind people who got the disc. Or people who brought used. Really, the line would end up being drawn somewhere and no doubt there would be loud whining in that spot
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Off to a flying start, failing to emulate things that have been emulatable on other platforms for decades. And those emulators were free and made by amateur fans, not paid products made by Nintendo itself.
Edit: Nintendo Life's auto-embedding thing is breaking the top link. I've separated it into two halves to hopefully bypass that. You can copy it and delete the space in between "twitch" and ".tv" and it should work.
@Eel There are two videos. For me the bottom one is embedded as normal but the top one says that Twitch.tv won't let it be embedded but there's a button to click to watch it directly on the Twitch site.
@Eel Ah okay, I checked the first one. Nintendo Life's forums turn things into embedded videos by default and that's broken the top Twitch link. I've put a space into the URL so now you can copy-paste it into your address bar and delete the space. That should work. As for the bottom one, I can do the same here for you: https://webm .red/X5rc
Just copy-paste and delete the space. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Edit: There's more related videos going up. This is about the really bad input lag.
Looks like there's a lot of work to be done to get it to the level of free emulators.
If that's input lag, I sure as hell don't give a **** about input lag. Looks pretty instantaneous to me.
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@skywake
Like many are so quick to say if digital us the future then certain things should be expected. Cross buy and backwards compatibility should be a thing on Switch. The Gameboy series was a prime example of how physical cross buy and BC should be so going forward to digital purchases shouldn’t be that big of a stretch. Instead you must subscribe to a service for online gaming to play a small sampling of games you may or may not have any interest in. Why would it be so bad to have a purchase option for individual games on the service? Would it really be as bad as you think?
I gave Mario Kart 64 a spin and if anything I'm kinda impressed with the emulation. Very clear compared to what I'm used to for N64 titles. Then again the previous experience I have with N64 was the Wii VC, which was 480p over component, and the Wii U VC which was generally compressed 480p on the GamePad over WiFi.
@GameOtaku
Cross buy on the Switch from Wii/Wii U/3DS isn't a thing, that's just the reality. No amount of ranty posts on the interblags is going to change that fact. And given the reality of it not being a thing I'd much rather pay for a subscription vs repurchasing a library. Because it's just a better solution given the reality we live in
And in terms of the purchase option? Dude, I've litterally said three times I wouldn't be opposed to them adding it. If they added it would mean people such as yourself could give Nintendo more money. Which reduces the cost of the service for everyone AND stops you ranting on forums annoying everyone. Win win.
Also, this suggestion that NSO is a "small sampling" is a bit of a joke......
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@skywake
That’s not to say it couldn’t be implemented if they would just pull the trigger and let it happen especially since you can already attach your 3ds and WiiU to the Switch account.
Had everyone stuck to their convictions and not supported nso in the first place we would’ve been in a much better position now imho.
@GameOtaku
Doesn't matter how much you wish it it's not going to change anything. As a consumer we make decisions based on what options are infront of it, you can't purchase things that aren't available for sale. Dream about cross-buy between Wii U and Switch all you want, it's never happening. The realistic options are buy yet again on Switch or pay for a subscription service. I go for subscription, paying for it again is dumb.
But just backtracking a bit to tear down your last point about NSO being a small library again. Across the Wii, Wii U VC and the SNES Mini I have brought outright 33 classic games digitally. Most of them multiple times. I worked out at one point I had spent more on than I would have if it was a NSO subscription during those years so it's about on par in terms of cost here
In any case, of those 33 games 12 aren't on NSO. Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Super Castlevania, Street Fighter 2, Secret of Mana, Paper Mario, Mega Man X, Final Fantasy VI, Earthbound, Contra 3 and Alex Kidd in Miracle World. So there are a few, mostly third party titles. However most of those titles are readily available via other means. Infact all bar Alex Kidd and Paper Mario were on the SNES Mini and that's why they're on this list. Paper Mario is coming to the NSO expansion next, so it won't be on this list for long. Then there's Alex Kidd, Mega Man X, FF, Contra and Street Fighter I'm fairly sure are available on the Switch eShop
But on the other side? There are 109 games available to me on NSO that I didn't purchase digitally somewhere else. Games that basically by definition I wouldn't have taken a risk on purchasing. This isn't a small library of content.
Probably the bigger gap is stuff that I have original copies of that never made it to the VC, NSO or the mini consoles. Unirally, Mario Paint, Tetris & Dr Mario, The Lost Vikings probably high on that list. Stunt Race FX used to be high on that list but guess what? NSO got it despite years of it never coming to any VC service. IMO those are the games that are missing... and the VC did a worse job of filling that gap
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