Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library With Another Classic Title

It is complete! 1-5 💯✅

New Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC and Metroid Fusion at the same time? Looks like my night will be a busy one this time.

EDIT: After playing the Mario Kart DLC, I can say that I love the fact the Yoshi's Island track is not treated like a track based on Mario but instead as a track based on another IP, kind of like Animal Crossing, the F-Zero tracks and the Splatoon battle arena.

As great as Metroid Fusion is, sorry Nintendo, I won't be party to your exploitative subscription model. At the very worst, it should be behind the base subscription along with SNES and NES, not the premium option. Of course, these games should be available for purchase. So, stick it! My subscription expires in 2 weeks and I won't be renewing.

I can’t wait to play this … whenever I can genuinely pull myself away from Octopath Traveler 2.

@HalBailman
Also this is the more expensive premium option where people are lucky if they get one game added a month when Nintendo have an absolutely mammoth amount of GB games they can add.

I didn't realize maximum velocity is coming that rules.

Not sure I would wanna pay 10 bucks for Metroid fusion like the Wii u days when I could just collectively have everything for cheaper.

Yep will be played today!

Metroid Fusion is out now!!! Go go go!!!

First Dread, then Prime Remastered, now Fusion... Metroid fans eating FAT. All the food in the kitchen pantry.

@TheBigBlue
Especially when the family plan option is available.

Split 8 ways with 7 other members of this site, I pay $10/yr for NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, GB/GBC, GBA (and online, cloud saves, all the other stuff).

Feels like highway robbery. I'll raise my glass to the family plan. 🥂

@JaxonH Wait really? I don’t use the family plan, but that is a steal! Still feels weird playing dread before fusion, ha!

I've been wanting to play Fusion again so happy to have it, probably my favorite Metroid game after Super, but it being the only addition to the service feels really underwhelming 1), because there are so many GBA games worth putting on and it's going to take years at this rate, and 2), the thing is like four hours long so it's going to do almost nothing to address the lack of variety with the GBA games.

@JJtheTexan so they were right. Got it

My favorite part is when Samus says, "It's Morph-Ballin' Time!"

Are Prime 2 & 3 not mainline games?

Great news, now if only I could buy the game instead of renting it.

Well, that's one I really wanted taken care of. Wake me up when Zero Mission and Kirby and the Amazing Mirror show up and I'll be all set.

This is great for Metroid fans. Would be nice if they added Metroid Zero Mission as well, then people could choose whether to play that or the original NES version of Metroid I. The Metroid II: Samus Returns 3DS Remake should also get ported to Switch imo. Then we’d have great options to play the whole 2D series all in one place.

… Wun can only hope.

Sweet. Now we just need Zero Mission.

Nice but I beat this recently on my steam deck. Not really keen on dumping more money for their weird subscription package when the 20 dollar one is all that is needed.

I'm sure people will enjoy it. Great game without a doubt.

@HalBailman

I understand what you mean but in the end if I need to buy them separately I pay a lot more, it's not that much more money than the standard subscription.

Maybe I sound snarky but it's only 40 eu in total, not even 1 AAA game or 2 meals.

One of the few standout GBA games I've yet to play but wanted to for ages. Can't wait to get cracking :3

Last time I tried this was on my GBA Micro. Couldn’t finish it, but that was before I got into the franchise. Hopefully this time I can finally crack fusion…

@Aezetz What about if you're only interested in a couple? That's the issue I have. For example, I never played Goldeneye, and it would be nice to just buy that one game. I don't care about the rest. Another example is Mario Kart SC on GBA. My friends would love to play multiplayer together, yet we can't buy it. It's a joke.

What aggrieves me most about the likes of Mario Kart SC and Metroid Fusion is that it's hidden behind the premium subscription. The SNES and NES releases have dried up, and GBA games align with SNES games, so they should be with the basic subscription.

@SalvorHardin Exactly! The drip feed of games is appalling. While I understand Nintendo don't own the rights to all those unreleased games, at least put GBA with the SNES-level subscription to restore value to that service. Instead they put them into premium.

@HalBailman I feel like you need to embrace emulation, rather than letting the actions of a corporation get you this agitated.

I’ve set up my Wii U under the telly so I can play Metroid Prime Trilogy and looks like I downloaded Fusion in the past already.
Wii U to the rescue!

@Fazermint I'm not agitated, only disappointed. I don't like being forced into subscription models, and boycotts are my only recourse!

@LinktotheFuture "Are Prime 2 & 3 not mainline games?" Metroid Prime games are obviously their own series, hence the first game then Prime 2 then Prime 3 and eventually Prime 4.

Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Dread are not Prime games.

@jco83 You are the first person I have ever come across who considered the Prime games spinoffs. Metroid Prime Pinball is a spinoff game.

If you can show me where Nintendo has stated that the Prime games are spinoffs, that would be helpful. Maybe they are, but they never seemed like it to me.

@LinktotheFuture I didn't say Prime games are spinoffs, nor did I say they are not mainline games, I just said they are clearly their own series, being numbered as they are, separately from the numbered 2D Metroid games.

I definitely consider Prime games mainline, it's just that they are numbered separately from 2D Metroid games.

@jco83 Obviously they are numbered differently. The article has been changed from the time I made my original comment. At first the article said that you could play every mainline Metroid game from the original Metroid all the way to Dread on Switch, but since you can't play Prime 2 or 3 on Switch, that isn't true. That was my point. It never specified anything about only counting the 2D games, and still doesn't at the time I am posting this comment.

This is one of the only GBA games I double-dipped on carts. I have the US cart (a borrow that ended up being a trade with my sister's ex), but I later bought a Japanese cart.
For the fact that the JP version was released a few months later with some enhancements. (I'd guess it was released later to tie its release in with Metroid Prime, since that game had to be localized TO Japanese.)

@LinktotheFuture Ah I see Sorry if my previous comment came across as argumentative! 😅

To be fair I was surprised when I found out Dread was officially called Metroid 5, I was like "What about the Prime games!?".

Then I guess I realised they just wanted to keep the (2D) Metroid games as their own thing, kinda separated but sharing all the same everything with the Prime games

Remember there have also been Prime spinoff/sub games. Prime Hunters on DS and Prime Federation Force on 3DS

So just think of it as Metroid = the 2D games and Metroid Prime = the 3D games

@jco83 No worries.