Nintendo Updates Its 'Switch Online + Expansion Pack' Trailer With New Footage

I am still saddened by the fact they haven't had more on release but I guess there are only so many game boy and game boy color on it though I do have a good feeling they are going to add Pokemon.

@edgedino Don't forget, we usually get a Pokemon Direct video of some kind on Pokemon Day (Feb 28th) so they could save an announcement for that.

It's well worth it to me. Getting access to some DLC and numerous games from different retro systems is cool.

I'm just waiting for nintendo to allow us to purchase the said games, until then, ill continue to play them on retroarch series x

They are practically letting us play NES, SNES and GB games for nowt lol.

At this point, yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. The DLC doesn't really matter much to me since I bought the Splatoon and Mario Kart DLC separately (and would prefer to "own" them rather than have them tied to a subscription service) and I'm too disappointed in Animal Crossing to be bothered to check out the DLC, but the retro lineup has grown a ton! I can't wait to see what all is added to the GB/GBC/GBA libraries. I still wish Virtual Console was an additional option because I don't really like having things tied to subscriptions (even though you don't really own digital copies either), but the value's good enough for me to be fine with subscribing at this point.

If theres not going to be an option to buy the retro games anymore, then I really hope nintendo just carries this online expansion and our individual accounts and purchases through to their future hardware so that this infrastructure doesn't just disappear. They've hinted that it will build on it, but we've had nothing concrete and we all know how left field they can be. It's 6 years just to get to where we are now. Steamdeck seems a better nintendo emulation system, although I'm not particularly advocating that.

It's Gameboy and GBA, but... portable? Like, not on my PC?
I am very, very glad its a thing. I have a pretty mint SP, 3DS, and several Anbernic portables, but yeah I'm happy to play these on my Switch.
Edit: if it was your first time with sarcasm YES I was kidding about the gba and gb portable thing.

@Angelic_Lapras_King in which more effort and manpower will be spent then was spent in the entirety of ScarViolet's development. HOW EXCITINNNNNNG!

Are the ness and sness still getting new stuff?
Havent checked in a while.

I really am excited to play Fusion; it’s the only 2D Metroid I haven’t played, as long as your counting remakes being separate. I hope they add Zero Mission too.

The NSO+expansion price is still not worth it for me.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH. I AM NOT PLEASED. WANT GAMECUBE NOW.

rabble rabble rabble

My excitement for GBA games completely dissipated when I realised it was an expansion pass exclusive. Steam Deck emulation it is then.

It could be way better

I am happy overall, but there are a handful of little things that have annoyed me...

1. There should be more than 6 GBA games at launch. I'm not a member of team "release everything now" but I don't agree with the "15 games across both" approach when the Expansion Pass is a premium cost. Should have been an equal amount of each.

2. They have made the effort to give Gameboy, Pocket and Color variants of the games... but then they only add the DX version of the best game on the entire system, meaning it only plays in Color variant. I want to play Link's Awakening in Gameboy (without the additional dungeon, and the way I played it originally) but I can't. That's a big oversight.

3. The timing of the release, in my view, is too close to the 3DS and Wii U eShop closures. Nintendo have found the exact right time to annoy people that have been buying Gameboy games out of FOMO/collection and to completely cut off future sales. September would have made more sense.

@nocdaes 1. It's possible that the frequency of releasing might be slightly quicker.
2. If you have the Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda, you CAN play the Original Link's Awakening. That's part of why I have it, really.
3. I could care less about the dates, but these days, I don't play on my New 3DS XL, because it's seen better days. A friend of mine was REALLY hoping for Animal Crossing New Leaf to be ported over to the Switch, because there's more to do there than on New Horizons, apparently.

That 64 app is hugely marred by Nintendo’s complete lack of giving a ***** about the 64 controller restock. They literally create problems, rerelease goldeneye yet it’s impossibly to obtain one of those controllers currently in the UK.

Due to Goldeneye they have surged in price on eBay too - now going for around £150.

Please for goodness sakes Nintendo, put some energy into sorting out that issue.

I would like it more if they give you an option like Playstation does. They give you a choice (at least the first party) to buy PSone games or have them with the subscription.

Well, I’d never played on a Gameboy Advance before, and I’ve never played a 2D Zelda … so I had a look at Minish Cap, and completely lost three hours!! Bliss!

I mostly just really, really hope they one day work out something to include Harvest Moon 64 outside of Japan. I'd play that game probably all day every day on the Switch.

I feel that things are great now with the online service, especially the expansion pak is wonderful. Seeing as I share the family membership with other people, we reduced the costs to a very low annual fee. I'm quite happy with that.

What I'm really hoping for is that we'll see the likes of Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire added to the GBA library. But I very much doubt that will happen. One can hope, though!

To be honest, no. Nintendo need to get better at harnessing their old games. GCN should be included too. I get that they remaster some GCN titles and release them as full retail but they could just withhold them frankly. They’ve always been choosey with what titles they release to us anyway.

@nocdaes regarding your third point, i kind of expected to announce something on that closure, like a sale, but also that the VC games on 3ds would all become avaiable.. (or not)

i jus buoguht gba:sma4:smb3 on wii us for the extra levels... i guess this was now sort of for nothing, but seeing the closure is so nearby, it would be nice to know if there is anything on the VC of both shops which won't appear on this service..

@Bondi_Surfer well that's te power of this service instead of those people wanting to 'buy' those games again... dipping in is something worth treasuring.

I would be fine with the Expansion Pack if there was a 3rd incentive besides more classic games and renting DLC. Otherwise, it doesn't feel very affordable to me, even if I were to choose the Family plan. More importantly, it's worth even less because I already own the DLC for at least one of the games and I already have some of these games.

I own the expansion pass and I regret my purchase. The simple fact is that there isn’t enough. Now if all dlc hit the pass day one plus the retro games that would be a great deal and I’d uphold my subscription. But for me the retro games just aren’t worth the money as I own many of the good ones on other platforms and they don’t bring enough of them when it would be easy to.

@arabiansanchez
I second this give me GCN. I need a way to play Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Thousand Year Door for cheaper.

Are we EVER going to get most GameCube games released in some fashion?

Wave Race Blue Storm, 1080 Avalanche, Animal Crossing, Four Swords Adventures, Melee, Star Fox Adventures, Mario Party 4 - 7, Wario World, Double Dash, Power Tennis, Toadstool Tour, GX, Air Ride, Chibi Robo, Colosseum, XD, Custom Robo, Mega Party Games, Thousand Year Door, Konga 1 and 2, Assault, Jungle Beat, Super Star Baseball, Strikers, Battalion Wars, and Path of Radiance.

Those are all stuck in purgatory if they don't ever make a way to have GameCube games available.

Also, the Expansion Pack is better now. No way it should've had such little content at launch. You don't just release an on-demand service with like 10% of the content It's eventually getting.

I wonder if there are plans to release Game Boy and Game Boy Advance joy cons so that you can have the original controls.

@Uncle_Franklin Just buy that Hori dpad joy con. No need to release a controller whose only feature is less buttons.

@Bret

Well it's the authenticity really, as with the the NES, SNES, and N64 controllers for NSO.

The right stick gets in the way playing some of the Game Boy games.

Played Super Mario Land 2 in Game Boy Color mode in the hope that it would give me an impression of how the worlds are supposed to look.

Those hopes were dashed somewhat when I saw that the honeycomb in the Tree Zone is depicted as blue.

They should have added these years ago. Glad they are finally here.

@DrewBA77 We will probably never get GameCube games. We never got them on Virtual Console either.

Ports like Luigi’s Mansion (3DS), Twilight Princess, Windwaker, Mario Sunshine, and Metroid Prime are the best we will get.

The analog triggers for GC also pose a problem. Mario Sunshine needed to get its controls reworked for the water jet pack. Prime is also getting modified controls.

They could sell the controllers for the best experience. Or plan for better GC compatibility for the next console. Or do a Classic Mini GC (less likely).

@Tandy255 I wonder if we'll get DS in the future. That seems more likely than GC in many ways.

I also expect Game Gear to come at some point too.

I just want to play the original smash bros. Had a chance to get it back on the Wii VC but didn’t for some reason, little did I know that was my only chance.

I really like the service but I’d like to see them add TG16 and more SNES.

not really. already bought the dlcs, so paying for mega drive, GB advance, & replaying 64(only 1 of these I have & it still works) on switch isn't enough to upgrade yet. obviously if/when GCN comes I will be part of the massive crowd that signs up.

@Deemo37 Yes and yes. Paper Mario has never been better.

I'm so jazzed about Excitebike 64. Stoked, even. Really hyped. Thrilled. I wish there were another word for the emotions I feel about this game making its return.

Fr though incredibly underrated, really fun gameplay and its extra modes and course builder were phenomenal.

Nintendo can give me a headache, but I think it might be time to buy the expansion subscription.

I'd love to see GameCube, DS, and Wii titles in the future, assuming they're going to go that route

It definitely looks much better to be worth the money compared to when it first launched

I thought they will add Mario Party 3 On the Nintendo 64 app on the switch they said they will so when then? They added goldeneye007 & i don’t care about that I do have the Mario Party series like Mario Party 3 but I would like to play it on the switch

As the more things get added the more I am looking to resubbing and getting the expansion also. I haven't had a online sub in 2 years. Now for €40 it feels more justified for myself.

I would love for them to add the Pokemon gen 3 games (even though I bought Sapphire, Emerald and Leaf green last year for completion reason as they were the only generation I didn't own).

It needs a clearer release schedule.

There are so many games for the all various platforms they could add and they need to add more regularly

I’m enjoying it. Waiting for Sega Saturn games to join the line-up, too

I would sub in a heartbeat if they added expansion/DLC for every first party game, you know the IPs they own themselves.

Right now if you're not interested in the retro games it's still very lacking. I'm surprised they haven't added the stuff from FE games and Xenoblade 2/3.