Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

@Sir_Axeman I guess it might be because of Mario Kart World having come out last year. I'd imagine that Double Dash would be on Nintendo Classics in about a year from now, though I don't know for sure. It would be great to have, though. Also if you're talking about best-selling GameCube games, Super Smash Bros. Melee was the best-selling one, with Double Dash being the second.

@Sir_Axeman That would be Melee actually:

Resident Evil 4 at number 15 is a True injustice and a Crime

Why only list the US sales? The top 5 are the same, but the top GameCube list changes a little after that:

1. Smash
2. Mario Kart
3. Mario Sunshine
4. Zelda Wind Waker
5. Luigi's Mansion
6. Metroid Prime
7. Animal Crossing
8. Mario Party 4
9. Pokemon Colosseum
10. Mario Party 5
11. Paper Mario TTYD
12. Mario Party 7
13. Star Fox Adventures
14. Sonic Adventure 2
15. Mario Party 6
16. Resident Evil 4
17. Pikmin
18. Mario Strikers
19. F-Zero GX
20. Twilight Princess

Of those top 20 best selling games, 4 are on NSO, 2 are coming to NSO soon, and 4 (not counting Sunshine) are available in some other form on Switch. So we have half of them.

The remaining are:

• 4 Mario Parties - Mario Party has been on NSO before so these may eventually come also.
• Mario Kart - same as above
• Star Fox - also same
• Twilight Princess - surely will come to NSO and/or get a port/remaster.
• Smash - No Smash has appeared on NSO yet.
• Animal Crossing - same as above
• Sonic Adventures 2 - As a non-Nintendo game which hasn't been ported yet, who knows.

@Sir_Axeman For a console focused on quirky, colorful games, it's rather impressive Resident Evil got as much attention on their as it did.

@FishyS Sales figures were obtained from Installbase, which in turn were obtained from Circana, which are generally considered reliable, but are also a US company, and thus focus on US sales. I haven't seen worldwide figures lists for figures under 1 million, so the US figures tend to be more complete in this respect. There's also Japanese sales, but those seem to leave off some games.

@Electricmastro2 There were around 35 games which sold above a million worldwide so those were all reported on by Nintendo. Might not be 100% accurate but certainly more accurate than only looking at one country.

I just remembered something. Double Dash had a LAN mode that allowed multiple GameCube consoles to be connected to a local server, and every player would have their own screen. I wonder if Nintendo would be able to make that work online on Switch 2?

@FishyS It's not as complete, as those only list their own first-party games, which listed 25 games, and leave off things like Sonic Adventure 2.

In terms of successful GameCube games that still haven't been released/announced for Switch:

Super Smash Bros. Melee — 7,410,000
Mario Kart: Double Dash — 6,880,000
Animal Crossing — 2,700,000
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle — 2,560,000
Mario Party 4 — 2,460,000
Mario Party 5 — 2,170,000
Mario Party 7 — 2,080,000
Star Fox Adventures — 1,820,000
Mario Party 6 — 1,630,000
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut — 1,600,000
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess — 1,430,000
Sonic Heroes — 1,420,000
Sonic Mega Collection — 1,370,000
Kirby Air Ride — 1,350,000
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour — 1,270,000
Donkey Konga — 1,180,000
Mario Power Tennis — 1,160,000
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes — 1,100,000
Mario Superstar Baseball — 1,050,000
Super Monkey Ball 2 - 808,700
Super Monkey Ball - 735,776
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - 595,100
Need for Speed Underground - 562,800
Need for Speed: Underground 2 - 522,600
Harvest Moon Wonderful Life - 512,200
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly - 467,800

I'd say any of these are fair game except for Sonic Mega Collection, as earlier Sega games are already being released on NSO and would thus be redundant. Donkey Konga I also don't think they'd release without the bongos, which could be a conundrum to figure out in of itself for Switch.

Then you have the licensed media tie-ins which I don't think will get on NSO due to not being as reputable as something like GoldenEye 007:

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader — 1,130,000
Spider-Man: The Movie - 746,500
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - 617,200
The Simpsons: Hit & Run - 608,000
Finding Nemo - 587,300
Shrek 2 - 571,500
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - 570,000
Spider-Man 2 - 552,800
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike - 536,800
The Incredibles - 530,400
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 - 562,900
LEGO Star Wars - 514,800
007: NightFire - 492,300
James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire - 479,900
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee - 474,300

that would be HELLA COOL If they got it working, 8 player online games

These are prob the most popular franchises people would expect to be on GameCube NSO:

Super Smash Bros.
Mario Kart
Animal Crossing
Sonic
Mario Party
Star Fox
Zelda
Kirby
Mario Sports
Donkey Kong
Metroid
Super Monkey Ball
Need for Speed
Harvest Moon

Nintendo games will arrive on the NSO sooner or later. My curiosity lies with third-party games (due to the complexity of the licenses).
I think Extreme-G 3 has a good chance of being included, since the two N64 games have already been added.

There's def a lot to choose from:

@Electricmastro2 If even a 1/3 of those games end up on NSO it will be a miracle

Anyway Nintendo finally remembered to put out a trailer for Path of Radiance outside of Japan

In case anyone is interested, Madden NFL 26 will be the next NSO game trial for North America, and it's a Switch 2 game this time.

I suppose we'll have to expect NSO shrugging off most of the popular third-party GameCube games then, and that we'll be seeing more hidden gems then.

@D-Star92

on the Aussie eShop we get Stardew Valley, from 29/02 to 04/02, as our NSO trial but only on Switch 1 though.

ConcernedApe commented on the 27th of December last year that the Switch2 version of Stardew Valley and it's update pack were meant to release on all eShops at the same time but it only released in NA and skipped the rest of the world for some reason.

Hope we get the Switch2 versions when update 1.7 comes out. 🤞😌🤞

Madden looks fun, haven't played since 07 i think.

I think I noticed a typo in the NSO menu 🤔. On top of the Mario Tennis Fever banner, it says "Play Classic Titles" which is supposed to be present when a new game is added to Nintendo Classics (case in point, the Virtual Boy banner on the right). So either it's just so typo, or we can be a bunch of sillies and assume that Nintendo thinks the new Mario Tennis will be a classic 🤣.

Two Game Boy games, Yoshi and Balloon Kid, have been added to the service.

@UpsideDownRowlet Color me surprised, I use to have Yoshi for Game Boy, and I have Balloon Kid on my 3DS.