Video: New Switch Online Trailer Highlights Classic Pokémon Games

Well boys, we did it. Pokemon fans harassing switch online is no more!
Surely this is what they meant when they said they wanted gameboy Pokemon games right!

• Nintendo, probably

I just want the Pokemon pinball games or the Gameboy Puzzle Challenge again.

Ah yes the Pokemon games we've all been waiting for!

When are people going to understand that Gamefreak have said no and that's the end of the matter.

If Nintendo own 100% of Pokemon that of course would be different, but they don't.

Having Pokémon Stadium but without the ability to use your own pokémon feels so incredibly wrong. I want to play the Stadium games with my own Pokémon and not be locked to the rental ones.

@Yosher they should have allowed you to play the GB games on Pokemon Stadium

@Dee123 Citation please

@Dee123 huh? Never heard them say that, when?

The only Pokemon games not on NSO that I would ever be interested in are HGSS, MD: RTDX, and New Snap. Nothing else appeals to me.

Easily solved with a .gba file, but it could've been officially released since the dawn of Switch Online service.

I'm sure they're holding off for some new round of remakes. The more people demand it the more they'll see the viability in going to Extra Leafy Green and Burnin' for You Fire Red rather than collecting pocket change throwing the roms to NSO and having to hack together the multiplayer and bank transfer.

Yeah, this video only made me frustrated that no mainline games are available on NSO.

Just my personal theory but I think Digital Spy a couple of years ago asked the producers of Home & Away that why unlike Neighbours they never acknowledge or celebrate ANY anniversaries. Their response way interesting but annoyed a lot of fans basically they said:

"Characters and storylines from the past will alienate the very different current audience"

I feel that's sort of the response Gamefreak would give.

I'd rather have the ability to buy the older games again instead of them being on NSO.

I would like to try the Mystery Dungeon but refuse to pay for that tier for a rental.

I'd rather just buy a cart for gba and own it forever.

@Dee123 Gamefreak didn't say anything.

They should add the Pokémon Pinball games.

@speedracer216 they remade it for Switch anyway. Look up Rescue Team DX.

Ah yes, those "classic" Pokemon games that don't include the ones people actually want to play. Can you get any more tone deaf? Feels like we AT LEAST should have Red and Blue by now, wake me up when that's actually reality. I don't want to hear "Pokemon on NSO" ANYTHING until they're ready to make that announcement.

Pokémon Emerald Version

It was good to play Pokémon Snap, and Pokémon Puzzle League again, but man I would love for the OG games to come to the service.

You guys really got my hopes up for a second there. Maybe we'll at least be able to get the main games' soundtracks on the music app.

So I suppose the Japanese lineup will add TCG2 and remove Pokemon Puzzle League.
(Though it seems that while the N64 version of Pokemon Puzzle League was never released in Japan, the GBC version was.)

I let my NSO sub expire this year, it may be cheap but I was using it as a retro 'game pass' type sub and hardly ever playing anything much on it.

A quick tip though if you are coming up to renew, if you let it lapse Nintendo email you with an offer to get you back in - I was offered £8 worth of eshop credit to resub, doesn't sound much but it's almost 25% of the full sub price

bah, I couldn't care less about most of these as they are at the moment. Had Nintendo given us the original experience of the classic mainline Pokemon games and making them compatible with the Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 as well as updating Pokemon home to support them, now that is something I would be very interested in.

I never thought Stadium was very fun using rental Pokemon only. Those games really starts to shine when you can use your own Pokemon.

But out of all the "classic" Pokemon games released on NSO the only one I go back to from time to time is Pokemon Snap.

I'd like to think they are all delayed because they're working on a method to link PokeHome to all the Pokemon games.

The only reason I want the main lines is for stadium.

I do really have fun with gymleaders castle and a few rentals though!

Are the mainline Pokemon games likely to be re-released in their original format either on NSO or as a purchase off of Nintendo eshop?

The original pokemo games would be a no brainer to download for me. Also black and white and other pokemon games that have not been remastered on switch. Would be greatly appreciated.

NSO online with classic Pokemon (Gens 1-3) would be a game changer. However I think Nintendo & the Pokemon company would charge a separate subscription tier price for older Pokemon titles

Give us Pinball and Puzzle Challenge !!

@Dee123 if GF had that kind of power, then SV would have been delayed.

@Medic_alert shopto.net has a discount on NSO subscriptions

@Don Not likely at least not before the "Switch 2" has been released. And at that point they might make it available on the Switch as well.

The reason I believe this is that the Switch 2 is confirmed to be backwards compatible. And so I think they will use the current NSO classics apps, they may or may not update them for the Switch 2.

Long answer short: If they do it for the Switch 2, then I think it's likely that they also bring it to the Switch, because it's most likely going to be the same app.

@DaniPooo
Hopefully it will be for purchase instead of being part of a subscription. Otherwise all my Pokemon and gym badges will be gone when the day comes that Nintendo ends NSO in favor of a different retro game service.

I wonder if they're holding off because the early gens depict gambling. I've heard that law changes around it in some countries would make them rated as 18+ these days. Maybe they don't want the weirdness of having to stick Pokemon in the Mature app of NSO next to actual violent games?

They are probably remaking Gold/Silver.

I assume holding off firstly for when theres no big pokemon release coming up and secondly because the second they release a proper pokemon game on NSO people will want it to be compatible with both stadiums but also Scarlet and Violet (or whatevers newest switch game before it) etc so they can move pokemon to newest games.

@Don Well one can only hope.. But for me it would be a a big missed opportunity not to make the Pokemon stadium games compatible. That's pretty much what I care about the most because they have not rereleased these games with the full experience since back in the 90s.

@Dee123 ...except if it's kanto, they won't shut the hell up about kanto at GF XD

I'm by no means up to speed with the legal logistics of Pokemon, but is there some reason why Gamefreak are withholding the mainline games from the NSO/eShop?

We need the first pokemon stadium game. The second TCG game too
Oh and all 5 gen 1 games