Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

Main games I'd be interested in playing anytime soon if this is real (that have a reasonable chance of being on here):
-Both Golden Suns
-Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
-Sonic Advance series (and the spinoffs as well)
-Pinball of the Dead (It's only rated T!)
-Gunstar Super Heroes (to see if me being underwhelmed by it at the time was a mistake or not)
-Any cool Atlus game I never played before
-Mario Advance 4 (mostly to play the e-Reader levels I never played)
-Mario and Luigi
-Final Fantasy V Advance (the one GBA FF remake I never played)
-Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
-The Klonoa GBA games
-Pinobee (you ever have that weird game you saw someone play but never played yourself and are super curious what it even was?)
-Borderline every 1st party Gameboy/GBC game I don't already own (so the majority of them)
-The Gameboy Megaman games (the only system that I could see NSO getting Megaman games)
-The weird Gex and Rayman GBC games I had growing up
-Tetris and Tetris DX
-...
-some other 3rd party Gameboy games that I totally know exist!
-I dunno maybe that MGS game on Gameboy Color

@Fizza I didn't scroll far enough down at first, so I thought it was snot coming out of his nose

Games I want:
Minish Cap
Pokémon R/S/E
Hamtaro: Ham Ham Heartbreak
Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue
Sonic Advance 3

From what I've read of this leak it appears to be a full on dump of development code. Not directly from source control but indirectly via a development console. And it's signed by the developer who pulled it from source...... so that's a thing....

In any case, seems very much real and someone is definitely getting fired and blacklisted from the entire industry over this. Whether or not it actually ends up coming out? I mean it might not, not everything that's developed is released. But it seems like it's definitely a thing being developed and, IMO, it's such an obvious move that had already leaked I don't think we should be too surprised by it

I'm kinda surprised Nintendo Life is running this one on their frontpage given the shady nature of the leak

You know, when I said the NSO Expansion service was likely going to attract further DLC when it launched and people should reserve their judgement? Well, add another DLC to that list:

@skywake My only problem with this is that I've bought every DLC listed so far. I think the biggest appeal to me will be the games added to it. I still haven't gotten a subscription, but if the GB/ GBA library gets added, that'll probably sway my opinion. The service is certainly gaining value, though.

@StarPoint
Well the Animal Crossing and Mario Kart DLC you knew were part of the expansion when you brought them so that's a thing. In any case, I've got all three without paying anything additional which works out to be $90AU of DLC just for myself since the Expansion launched. Not bad considering I pay $110AU/year for the family pass

Now you could argue that I wouldn't have got some of this DLC if it wasn't part of the expansion. You'd be right. But amongst the five people on my Family Plan the number of DLCs not brought would definitely be adding up. I can only speak for myself but as a gut feeling..... probably about 6 DLCs that would've otherwise been purchased and another 4 DLCs that will be used that wouldn't have been purchased. So $110AU spent, $180AU saved, $120 bonus. And that's before any of the other things in this service

The scales have most definitely tipped towards this being a decent value

@skywake Yeah, the reason why I bought those DLCs is that I was convinced that I wasn't going to be getting the expansion anytime soon. It wasn't a great value for me at the time, but looking back, I do sort of wish I had bit the bullet and gone for it beforehand.

Again, if the game library side of things gets expanded with GB/ GBA, I will most likely be grabbing it. It's becoming a better value all the time, and I'm interested to see where it's heading in the future.

Playing a bit of the Octo Expansion, now I remember why I skipped this one. Splatoon is just one of those games where I never got into the single player mode at all. It's just purely been about the online modes. I didn't beat the original Splatoon single player, barely played the single player mode in Splatoon 2 and I kinda feel like this expansion will be the same

With that said, it's part of the NSO Expansion so of course I'm playing it. And I feel like that super low risk of trying stuff out is the main appeal of these kind of subscription services more generally. There are movies I've watched on Netflix or Disney+ I would have never have brought or rented. There are albums I've listened to on Spotify I wouldn't have brought. And some of those things I've tried out on those services have ended up being things I've ended up loving

So yeah, this particular DLC? Not something I'd be jumping up and down to get NSO for. Not something that really justified the price of the service by itself by any stretch. But that low risk being able to try out stuff like this? WELL worth subscribing IMO

Will mega drive games include the 32X and mega cd games.

@Ninfan I think it would be cool to include Master System games there as well at some point, it was basically SEGA's NES so I don't think it would be too difficult to implement.

@StarPoint Yeah, by the time Nintendo added the Splatoon 2 DLC to the expansion pack, I already beat it. Last year, in fact. I might upgrade to the expansion pack if they add GBA games, too - GameCube games would be awesome for sure...though that's just wishful thinking at this point. I would like to see Mario Party 1, 2, and 3 come to N64 online, as well.

@Ninfan That would be cool to see, but I kinda doubt it. When it comes to Sega's legacy games, they seem to only want to rerelease their Mega Drive games and not much else.

@Fizza what master system games would be good ?

@skywake
I just beat the Octo Expansion today.

So, I used to feel similarly about the single player. But after starting a new save file recently and re-playing the standard Octo Canyon campaign, I really came to appreciate it. Much more than the first time I beat it. I loved the puzzles in the Hub worlds and finding the scroll and sardine thing, and in each level.

I'd never got past the first few levels of Octo Expansion, but this time I played to completion. At first I wasn't enjoying it much. I thought Octo Canyon was much better. But the further I progressed, the better it got, and by the time I finished it my opinion had done a 180. It has higher highs and lower lows than Octo Canyon, but it's just as good imo.

Of course, Turf Wars and Salmon Run are crack in a pipe, and will always be the go-to modes for me. Even so, I thoroughly enjoyed both the Octo Canyon campaign and Octo Expansion.

Wonder will NSO get the light gun games from nes and snes to use with joycons.

@Ninfan I wouldn't know since that generation completely skipped me by but I would love to get acquainted with it the same way I have with every other NSO app.

@Ninfan
They did put some of those games on the Wii U VC so it's entirely possible. They put a crosshair cursor on the screen to act as a visual to show where on the screen you were pointing. Shouldn't be too hard to do and I think they'd get a bit of interest if they did it

While they're at it, would be nice to give Mario Paint a similar treatment. I'm not too familiar with the games compatible with the SNES Mouse to say whether there'd be much value beyond Mario Paint but. I mean there's stuff like Doom but I have no idea why you'd want to play the SNES port of Doom on the SNES NSO app when Doom exists on the eShop as a better port already

@Cunir you can only make new profile icons with the elements you buy with points - they can't be used with existing icons unfortunately.

Given Sony announced that retro titles in the PS Plus premium subscription will be available to purchase separately and even free to those who previously purchased them, is there a decent chance Nintendo may do something similar for the retro games under NSO basic and expansion pak?

Has the maintenance for the NES/SNES apps begun yet? What games do you guys think or hope will be added?

@TowaHerschel7 If anything Mega Man gets added (1, 2, X, etc.), I will lose it. The original Castlevania and Tetris would be great additions as well. Yes I am still holding on to hope from that leak we got a while back, how could you tell?