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@Andee not really. My life today is in continuity with my life when I was five years old. That’s the amount of effort I expect from fictional characters lives too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo scraps the standard NSO pass and has the expansion pass as the only NSO pass.

@Joekun they’re selling an empty shell for $100. What makes you think they would sell a full working VB with almost all the games built-in for $100? They just wouldn’t. It would be $170+ at least.

I have expansion pass but I have no interest paying to hunch over with my head in a box to play the games. If they can be played on TV in 2D then I’ll be happy to play them all.

I’m happy that we are finally getting third-party GBA games. I hope other third-parties start supporting the NSO with their GBA games now. There are still some of Nintendo’s own GBA games I want added as well.

@Porky We have five years of Switch 2, the NSO is likely to carry over to the next console and if not, Nintendo will devise some other way to have their old games available to us.

Nobody’s blood should be boiling over not being able to play Virtual Boy.

@Boopero you also have to buy controllers to play N64 and GameCube games as the regular joycon does not have enough buttons

@Scposteel the way the games work I believe is that it shows two different images side by side that when viewed through the headset merges to become one image to give the illusion of depth

This is what people wanted though. Retro games available physically instead of tied to a yearly subscription fee. People would have been complaining if Nintendo added Wii to NSO demanding the games be sold physically.

Yes, the old games are going to be quite costly if sold individually. That’s why I’ve been championing the subscription fee and all the games that come with it. I don’t want to pay these prices for old games, I just want to pay for a yearly subscription which works out far far cheaper overall. I’d have been very happy if Wii games had been added to the expansion pass.

@RainbowGazelle it will be another 15 years before the Switch servers go down and that’s if you can’t continue to subscribe to NSO on the next console.

@Axecon I’m not interested in buying or playing using either accessory so I agree with you. I will enjoy playing them on TV if they are compatible, and I don’t mind them not being in 3D

@TrogdorTheBurninator you get to play GameCube, N64, GBA and Genesis games with the expansion pass which may be of some interest to players

@Maulbert “$60 for two nearly 40 year old games. Absurd.”

Really? You think the games looked like this on the NES?

I don’t care for the NES originals. They are way too dated to enjoy. But I do like the remakes that have quality of life upgrades that we take for granted.

@nitro4450 they need big names games to release in 2026, 2027 and 2028 too. Releasing all the good games now and having no good games later is bad press later.

Never played this, never gave it much thought but I was aware it existed. Far from my first choice of games I’d like to see on the service but I do welcome new games added whatever they may be. I’ll give it ten minutes play at least.

One year of the expansion pass on shopto.net is £26.31.

https://www.shopto.net/en/ndo10009344-nintendo-switch-on-line-expansion-pack-365-p1179195/

I always buy my passes from them so I think if the expansion pass as a good deal.

How about adding more games than one or two a month?

No?

@anoyonmus you should play 2. It’s very good. I was initially confused by the battle mechanic, but I enjoyed it once I got used to it.

@Mana_Knight and thanks for letting me know as that’s where I got my upgrade too. I had already downloaded the full game on switch 1

Anyone else think Nintendo has lost interest in adding games to the service? There’s only been six games added since the launch of Switch 2.

It may well be a good game that not many people have played, but I don’t like how Nintendo are now neglecting their other supported platforms.

Mario Kart is at its most dangerous when it’s behind - its in a perfect position to throw a blue shell.

@betterman it’s not one of the announced GameCube games so had no chance of release until all ten have been released on NSO.

@Ganon821 You WILL be subjected to being able to play hundreds of classic games for a low cost each year. You will NOT be permitted to waste your money buying overpriced games individually.

@Aventurier the PS4 versions are the PS3 versions.

@Suketoudara Isaac C. Singleton Jr. has been the voice of Sagat since 2009 and he does a good job voicing him.

@Suketoudara because looking like Madge Bishop from Neighbours just wouldn’t sell

@Moistnado the street fighter games have never been complete at launch. Each mainline version since SFII was supported for years.

@The_Nintend_Pedant it’s an update for a title at no extra cost

@conditionals it’s funny, I don’t like any filter for the Capcom Fighting Collection games, but the Neo Geo games do have a filter that looks good to me. I wish CFC could have a filter like the NeoGeo games.

I think it would be cool if they were able to add new sprites and characters from other games into Alpha 3 that were not in any previous version.

@Yoshi3 my list would be

• Arcade Saturday Night Slam Masters
• Arcade Slam Masters II: Ring of Destruction
• Arcade Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold
• Arcade Final Fight Revenge
• PS1 Street Fighter EX+ Alpha
• PS1 Street Fighter EX2
• PS2 Street Fighter EX3
• PSP Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
• Dreamcast Tech Romancer
• Dreamcast Cannon Spike
• PS3 Super SFII Turbo HD Remix
• PS3 Ultra Street Fighter IV (with all dlc)
• PS3 Street Fighter X Tekken (with all dlc)
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
• PS3 Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (with all dlc)

Number of releases per platform for 2025 so far -

NES - 0
SNES - 8
GB - 5
GBC - 1
N64 - 2
Genesis - 3
GBA - 2
GC - 4

Which adds up to 25 games, and there have been 30 Fridays from the start of January up until the end of July.

@Banjo- baby Mario was supposed to be annoying so that you wouldn’t want to lose him, and to get him back quickly if you did

@garfreek I think this release was to coincide with today’s system update. Also I think Nintendo would consider Gamecube games to have more “weight” than other releases, so a month with a Gamecube release may be light on games on other platforms. Also also, as sucky as it is, it’s not the first time we’ve experienced a month with only two games released.

@shonenjump86 it’s never been rereleased at all since it was on the SNES until now

Should have added Mario & Wario too.

XBOX and XBOX 360 games on NSO please.

@SillyG gender is the polite word people use when they don’t want to say the word sex.

@Orwellian87 I agree. The phrase “and that’s a good thing” has been used too often following a bad statement by games journalists that regular readers online have been accustomed to have a negative reaction before they even read the article. It’s not a phrase good games journalists should use if they wish to be taken seriously.

@AnonyQ The way I see it, Nintendo has no control over third party publishers choosing which games they want to be submitted to be included, or if they don’t want to support the service at all. The only exception being Goldeneye 007.

I also believe that publishers that want to support the service for years don’t want to release all of their known good games quickly as then they would have nothing but bad games to release later.

It has been frustrating though to see companies support Virtual Console since 2006 and not release their best games by the time the service came to an end.

“Help us by paying $90 for our game!”

@rjejr but it is functioning as intended. It’s just going to take up a lot of space when they release a lot of games for it

@DollyrotsFan1 cross out all the licensed games. Those are definitely not going to happen. Goldeneye 007 was a special case that Nintendo had an invested interest to get onto the service.

Over nine thousand!?

There’s that “modern audience” getting in the way of things again. Sometimes all you need is a good fun small, simple and cheap game. I’d also accept the Gamecube version on NSO.

I think the equivalent of one game per week on any console is acceptable. Some months go weeks without a new game then drop four at once. But in reality even that is too much for them. Sometimes they only bother with two games a month.

@Member_the_game and in that time no new games have been released for the other supported consoles so if you don’t have a Switch 2 (I do), you’ll be missing out on new games.