Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

@Eel so if it is just activated like minutes ago it will be like 35€ to upgrade?

@SViper yes that’s about right

@Eel I see, so buying NSO Family Plan for 1-year from 3rd party shop and then upgrading it to Expansion Pack will be still cheaper if whole 69,99€ directly. Thank you.

It should realistically cost the same. Unless you find a family plan card on discount or something like that…

@Eel websites/shops like Eneba, Gamivo, Kinquin, CDKeys and other shops/websites like that always sell Digital things like that cheaper then normal prices of them.

@SViper I guess you could also buy enough eShop cards on discount to buy the expanded plan from the get go.

You can use eShop credits to pay.

@Eel I have 46 gold coins atm that will expire at the end of the this month and will get like extra 600 from BDSP in 5 day and 4-6 hours if I be lucky get my Dual Pack pre-order that fast.

It accepts gold coins as well, which surprised me tbh.

@Eel I probably now get it what you meant by eShop cards, because I never in my life bought or received gift cards, so they almost never on my mind.

NSO mega drive controllers are up for pre order UK now

If only I could get Nintendo switch online for free ): and I know this thread isn't about begging for Nintendo switch online.

Starting with the best first I see.

Also seeing this is rated T basically confirms that this whole service is stuck with that rating, so no M rated games. Not surprising.

On the one hand, I do agree that the service is kind of expensive and they should release games with a bit more frequency. But I still hate the tone of some of the comments in the article.

With this dripfeed seemingly being 1 game at a time they could arguably only release already announced games for the 1st year of NSO Expansion Pack, something like:

• December 2021 - Paper Mario (already known)
• February 2022 - Majora's Mask
• April 2022 - Pokemon Snap (1 year after the new game sounds reasonable timing)
• June 2022 - Mario Golf (see Pokemon Snap)
• August 2022 - Kirby 64
• October 2022 - F-Zero X or Banjo-Kazooie

@DarthNocturnal Huh. Does the entire game slow down while you're at the pause menu? Or does it take a while to load? I have Paper Mario on the Wii VC and that version takes like a second or two to load the pause menu.

I don't really see any slow down in the menus. Do you have any clips you can share to see?

So this probably confirms once a month for N64 (at least for a while). Which is...honestly the correct choice, unless they're completely ignoring the other systems going forward. There are not actually a ton of N64 games that have even the slightest chance of showing up, but there's enough that can be a (comparatively) big deal on their own.

I have a lot of thoughts about what Nintendo should do to make this service make sense in an era where its competition are giving out modern games at a quicker rate, but its certainly hard for me to be mad about getting two of my favorite games, back to back.

@DarthNocturnal Ah okay then. Hopefully they'll fix that. I don't have the expansion pack so I can't really see for myself. Thanks!

@kkslider5552000 I am hoping that's the case too. Especially since Nintendo showed off more games besides the N64 NSO launch lineup, and they basically said that they're gonna add more games whenever they feel like it. lol

Mostly I feel like Nintendo just needs to make the logical improvement NSO had a year in compared to when it started. Having SNES games and those couple of battle toyale games and some free trials...did not make NSO make complete sense to me, but at least made its pricing make sense.

But both now and then, I'm confused on why Nintendo wouldn't bring up as much as it could for why this is actually a good deal. I guess NSO was required for online, so it didn't matter, but waiting until the day before release to tell people SNES games would be added is...bizarre. I don't understand why you would present your product to be worse than what it will be. (its especially weird since back on Wii U they brought up adding N64 games to VC at least a year before it happened)

Why is there 2 paper mario games released for NSO, what's the difference between the two.