Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

@Don I think DS and maybe 3DS will be it. I am convinced the Wii and Wii U have no chance because of the size of game files. I suspect a lot of people are going to struggle with the Gamecube library as it grows. Throwing Wii and/or Wii U games on top of that would be adding fuel to the fire.

@JaxonH Dear lord, the words "the Wii will be 25 years old" is horrifying. The years are flying by and I am getting old. 😥

@FishyS I'm currently 18, and I've just understood that most things I like are older than me. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think retro is just whatever I'm nostalgic for. I think it's the Atari era to the N64 era.

@MarkSeteth72 You may be one of the rare few who doesn't define things like that in terms of personal experience. 😆

Regardless, the NSO collection is called 'Classics' not retro. In terms of music, the classics bar has moved up pretty consistently and you now hear early 2000s music on classics stations. I would say 20+ years for music; Jason's theory that Nintendo uses 25 years as the classics threshold for consoles is reasonable.

Has anyone else seen that patent Kouichi Kawamoto just filed?
It looks like Nintendo are exploring how to make DS games work on NSO.

From what it shows, it'll all be handled on one screen so no extra peripherals necessary which is surprising given how they were more than happy to do that with the Virtual Boy of all things.
You never know though, they might try selling us some kind of Nintendo Switch 2 branded stylus.

I (slightly seriously but mostly joking) wonder if Nintendo gating the Virtual Boy app behind the Expansion Pack and an additional accessory of limited regional availability is a ploy to make sure as few people as possible actually interact with one of their greatest failures while still preserving it to some extent.

@BrazillianCara I wouldn't be suprised if there was truth in that.
It's certainly an easier pill to swallow than if they pulled this for DS.
If a plastic shell with a couple of lenses goes for $100, god knows what a second screen attatchment would be.

That might be part of it, but I think its mostly just that its an extremely niche product and people who care about it will pay more for it because its better than trying to pay for the actual product online. And also that they didn't want to put it in the work to make it work without its own specific 3D gimmick. (which makes sense, because I'm still certain NSO classics are handled by an incredibly small team for what it is)

@kkslider5552000 Yeah, NERD (Nintendo European Research & Development) in Paris are responsible for pretty much all of Nintendo's emulation efforts and have 75 employees but of course that doesn't mean all 75 are working on the NSO Libraries

I know I mentioned this before elsewhere, but I've been wanting to revisit the original Luigi's Mansion. How likely is it to come out on Nintendo Classics this month? Logically speaking, I think it's pretty likely with Halloween coming up, and they didn't add a GameCube game last month. Though on the other hand, I'm not sure what Nintendo wants to do... and I'd love to know if that game will get a rerelease this month.

@D-Star92 It's now confirmed for October 30th.

@Grumblevolcano Yes! Let's go! Thanks for telling me!

With talks of potential DS games being added in the future, is there any hope of us getting some Pokemon games from Game Boy to DS? I really want to play the classic games in their original form on a modern gen console as official releases.

@Don I feel like it could come eventually still since they did make it available on 3DS for the GameBoy games.
But I believe it would be a new application so that you couldn’t rewind, use save states, or use cloud saves considering their efforts to prevent cloning/cheating in their other games.

I’m a bit hopeful that maybe they’d finally do so next year around Pokémon day for the series’ 30th anniversary.

@yokokazuo
I’m hoping for a 30th anniversary release as well since they released gen 1 on virtual console for 20th anniversary. I’m fine with the classic Pokemon games being available outside of NSO, hopefully will be a purchase download.

Disney Illusion Island is the latest NSO game trial, at least here in the US. I should come back to that game actually, lol.

huh. I was hoping it would be Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance like EU just got recently.

@FishyS I was thinking it would be SMT too... plus Nintendo Life's article didn't even mention it was for Europe only. But from what I've played of Illusion Island, I do like it and recommend checking it out, especially if you like Disney, Mickey Mouse, and/or cute games. As of this post, the game trial isn't active just yet.

@D-Star92 Sometimes the EU and NA game trials are the same game but a week or two seperated and sometimes they are completely unrelated - I've never figured out any rhyme or reason.

I'll probably skip the NA trial — although I like cute games like illusion island, I have a bit of a phobia of the old school disney characters like Mickey and especially Goofy. 😅 Something about them gives me nightmares. I suppose I could play it as a Halloween horror game 😆

I will say, I might play, as I have with every other game trial I actually bothered with that fit the specific mold of "game I'll never buy but am curious enough to try but would forget even if it had a demo". Props to the Overwatch 1 trial, the only way I ever got to play Overwatch 1, a game that in case you forgot, inexplicably doesn't exist anymore.

Not interested in a Disney game but the fact it even remotely reminds me of the modern Rayman games is so weird and specifically interesting to me that I'd be willing to give it a shot.