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This is the hard-hitting cow-ntent I come to Nintendo Life for - thank you.

Yesss this is a great idea. Would be a really nice edition to NSO.

So does the game translate the in-game text on the overlay? Or is most of it just in completely untranslated Japanese? Am interested either way as this is great for preservation.

Really hoping this means we get the Donkey Kong Land games, and DK64 on NSO soon.

Really hope we get this over here. If not I may just have to download it using my Japanese account and understand barely anything with my awful Japanese skills.

I would honestly love to get one of these if I can afford it someday. I do really hope that Nintendo makes a little NSO app for the games that are on the system also, as I think it would be an awesome little curio to have them drop all 20 VB games at once for the service .

Hoping this comes to NSO at some point. I genuinely think that OG Red and Blue will be added this year.

Really great list. I think they will add the mainline Pokemon games to NSO however, as they did it with VC on 3DS and the VC runner on there had save states built in too.
As for games not on here, I'd love some really out of left-field ones, like Silent Hill: Play Novel, GBA Banjo-Kazooie, and the Crash and Spyro GBA games. Also, can't believe Four Swords wasn't on the list.

This is great news - so glad they're still supporting this game. Hopefully we can get tracks from the GBA games too at some point, maybe even some completely new ones!

I love that you included Animal Forest N64 - like you say, even if it's just on the Japanese app, I would still adore to play it that way. I also echo what someone else said in that I'd love to get 64DD games at some point - the OG Doshin the Giant would be so interesting to play.
I do think it would be amazing in the distant future as well, if we could get the playable demos of games that never released, on NSO - Earthbound 64 I believe was once playable at an event, and it would be so cool to see things like that for the first time .

I downloaded Palia just to try and am now absolutely addicted. Unlike other farming sims this one is actually relaxing to me as they've changed how plants work and how the stamina bar functions, so you don't feel like you have to constantly min/max, but also feel rewarded for doing so if you want. Hope more farm sims employ similar systems .
Also gonna play more Super Mario RPG when I get time as it is amazing.

I've got so much to still play on my Switch from previous years. But I'm gonna predict another one or two NSO apps - thinking Virtual Boy, Sega Master System, Game Gear or Saturn.
Virtual Boy would be a fun one as they could release most of the games for that system in the first drop easily .

Other than a great release line-up, and the continuation of the hybrid console idea, I want them to call it the Switch 2 (sounds silly to say I want this but genuinely hope they just call it this, got so used to saying Switch), and I need backwards compatibility, both digitally and physically. Also, want analogue triggers and the continuation of all the NSO apps onto the new console.

Great news! Hopefully they change their minds and add more tracks, from the GBA games.

Would be cool if they eventually add the missing content from earlier versions of the games. Even though it wouldn't be ideal, I'd even pay under 8 quid to get the missing dungeons and After Years as DLC.

I don't rate Gearbox as a developer but this is still worrying for other companies owned by Embracer group.

<Insert Paper Mario: Sticker Star joke here>

Still really hoping we get Persona 1 and 2 on Switch. Maybe some translations of the OG SMT games too.

Everyone is going to be saying it but...

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Nintendo should get Shin'en to make a new F Zero game on the Switch 2 - their Fast series shows how they can do the concept really well, and with a bigger budget behind them I wouldn't be surprised if they could make one of the best racers ever.

Would be great to see this series come back, perhaps on the Switch 2. HD graphics and online multiplayer would add so much.

Will probably wait for a sale on this - even if this game isn't amazing, I'm still glad developers are preserving their old games on Switch.

I wish they'd add Twin Snakes to this collection or even Vol 2 - I know Kojima doesn't like that game very much but it should still be preserved.

Finally gone back to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 after beating Tears of the Kingdom - and damn this game just gets better and better. Just bought the season pass and that adds even more amazing quests, and things to do.

I'm hoping that it's Samus Returns HD or Metroid 6. Hope Nintendo does a lot more with Mercury Steam in the future tbf.

I think you can battle friends online now it's on NSO - can't you?

Thought I had played this one, but on reading the review realised I was thinking of Sacred Stones. Am now very excited to play this game for the first time .

Loved this article - really reminded me of Official Nintendo Magazine and the way their writings used to relax me. Also I need to give Stardew another go - I always get about 30 hours in then stop.

Never played any of these games but always wanted to, and couldn't find anywhere to play them legit, so this would be awesome. It'd be great if it lead to some of the older games coming to nso as well.

No one deserves a rest more than him. Personally, I'd love to see him go back to the Kirby and or Kid Icarus series in a few years. Uprising is one of my fave games on the 3DS and I'd love to see more in the future.

And this is where I'd put Earthbound 64...

IF I HAD ONE

I haven'r played them yet but am still hyped to after I finish playing AC Odyssey!