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NES' Mario Golf for Switch confirmed!!! Yay!!

So, so, so many Wii U games that people "didn't get to play"...

It's a good thing Super Mario Odyssey is a thing, because if you invested at all in Nintendo last gen, right now Nintendo Switch looks like a portable Wii U with less games.

Aaaand another company offers classic games to Nintendo customers, while Nintendo drags their feet with Switch VC!

@Pod

You say that, except that I named one Nintendo product that was under supplied for every year in the last decade..

And come on. They canceled production of the MUCH sought after NES classic, only to announce the SNES classic mere months later. That's as intentional as it gets.

@Jaredfrogman
Square just released the Mana collection for Switch in Japan. Nintendo dropped support of the New3DS VC back in 2016, Wii U's VC back in March, just finished up the NES classic, deflected every question about Switch VC at E3, and now announces the SNES classic for the holiday season.

I genuinely believe there is no Virtual Console coming to Nintendo Switch.

@dkxcalibur

Ah, yes. The regular size New 3DS! Yet another product Nintendo didn't want you to have without struggle.
Meanwhile, all those N3DS XLs just sit around on the shelf at target.

Anyone want to help me recollect all the other products Nintendo has had totally-not-at-all-intentional scarcity issues with?

The Wii
Zelda N3DS
Fire Emblem LE
WiiU games (Pikmin3, Game and Wario, Luigi U)
WiiU GameCube adapter for Smash
Amiibos back in 2015
BotW Amiibos now in 2017
Nes Classic system
BotW XL Strategy Guide
Botw Master Edition
The Switch
SNES Classic
.....I know I'm forgetting something.

Between this collection, and the NES, and SNES Classics, I don't think we'll be seeing Virtual Console come to the Switch any time soon...

I don't even own a Switch yet, and I'd buy this if it were in English!

So many things to consider!

1. They must have figured out the Super FX chip emulation issues, since Yoshi's Island, Mario RPG, and StarFox are all on there.
2. Dylan Cuthbert recently said in an interview that the ROM version of StarFox2 on the internet was incomplete. So is this an internal/different/more complete version of the game?
3.Secret of Mana is 3 players. How about a MultiTap???

The system itself looks cool! But if the game play is anything like the YouTube ad they released, I'll have a migraine headache before I get my first chaos emerald! The speed/timing of the gameplay seems WAY off...

Oh Nintendo... when was the last time they released a Virtual Console game anyway?

Oh yeah! They announced the VC service for New3DS (SNES support) in March of 2016 and then promptly stopped supporting it before the end of December 2016.

So! Nintendo supported their last VC service (on their most successful system) for less than a year, people..

I an not hopeful for the Switch VC.

Super excited for this new Metroid 2 remake!!

And anyone questioning why this isn't on Switch only has to remind themselves of the 70 million little reasons (Plus the considerably lower development costs), VS the 3 million or so people who CURRENTLY have Switch (with a much higher dev cost AND $10 price mark up to cover that physical cartridge cost).

It's pretty clear why it's on 3DS. And I'm sure they'll port it over to Switch eventually, once they've made their money off 3DS owning Metroid fans.

Will buy all, day one.

This makes me miss my Game Axe colour...

I have a Popeye machine and love the Nintendo arcade classics. This is just completely amazing!!

@JaxonH
Normally I would agree but there are ALREADY several WiiU games proving this untrue. And yes! Darksiders is a VERY good call as well!...All of this I will be kicking myself over in about a year.

Just leaving my future-self a little note here:

I told you so. I told you to buy Cars 3 for Wii U before it became a triple digit collectors item. "Oh, it's just Cars tho, who cares?" "It's a physical retail WiiU game released late in June of 2017?!" "It doesn't even have the same basic co-op features the other console versions have!!?" "IT'S FULL PRICE!!??!!?"

Yep. I told you so.

I love SNES more than I love being sensible. I would buy a Switch for this collection alone.

"Nintendo Switch - You could have played these games years ago!"

"Nintendo Switch - Didn't buy our Wii U games? Well, you will now!"

"Nintendo Switch - Wii U part 2!"

I love the Popeye arcade game by Nintendo, this is just too perfect!

@Menchi187
Honestly, I'm just disappointed. I love Nintendo's games, I always have. I've got all their systems, more carts and discs than I can count, and a Donkey Kong machine in my living room.

But as a lifelong fan, someone who supported their last console especially, I'm not seeing them go above and beyond like they need to, I'm just seeing the same vicious cycle all over again.

Virtual Console AND Netflix-style services/Paid Subscriptions/cloud storage/discount program for re-downloading/ Netflix and Hulu, etc (these are all fairly basic offerings that other companies and platforms, with much less money and resources, currently provide) should have been ready to go on Switch's launch day...not "sometime next year".

Nintendo is literally a billion dollar company. I just want them to occasionally act like one.

@Menchi187
so true.. here we go again, unfortunately.

Nintendo's support of the Virtual Console has been a lazy second thought at best. The Wii, DSi, 3DS, WiiU, and N3DS were all drip fed VC classic content and suffered slow, premature, miserable, unfulfilled deaths.

Now we are being asked to wait until 2018, so Nintendo can figure out how to add in stuff like 'online features' to old ROMS?? Online features that now apply only to NES games apparently?

Man....Things aren't looking good for Virtual Console. After the drip-feed of content that was made available, bit by bit, for the Wii, then the 3DS, then WiiU, I have no faith in Nintendo to make this work well.
Add to that the lengthy wait times (and flatline death) of the 3D classics series and N3DS' SNES VC, and things like 'online features' for classic games start to feel more like speed bumps and more wait time.
Seems to me like Nintendo's VC games are going to come out EVEN SLOWER than ever before.

Any news on the other product announced along side these controllers earlier this year?

I'm reeeeeeally looking forward to the brand new multigame SNES and GameBoy carts!!

The point everyone is missing is this:
These screens don't need to be real. Nintendo is going to start porting Smash to the Switch the very second it doesn't have a new game on the horizon.

It's a future proof, stop-gap title. Just like Mario Kart 8, it's been a profitable, finished product for years already. They just take some time to spruce up the graphics, maybe add a new character or level and DONE. They know it will sell gangbusters regardless of the conditions of it's launch and at full price, no less.

The only downside is, seemingly, Nintendo is partly relying on churning out some of their previous works, instead of going 110% on their new titles and new creative ideas for the Switch.

@Muddy_4_Ever
Couldn't have said it better myself. While I'm sure Universal will come up with some great stuff, there is little doubt it will boil down to some version of a 3D screen based ride, which is far less appealing/exciting to me as a theme park fan (as well as a Nintendo fan), than the potential alternatives that would be made possible by Disney's Imagineers and Disney's money.

Someone needs to get this kid a copy of Nintendo's SoundVoyager for the GBA STAT!!!!

He obviously likes music and already owns a GBA, so this is a no brainer. Please, if you speak Japanese and/or use twitter, go tell this kid about SoundVoyager!!

Cool idea, but you gotta love NOA for waiting 3 entire years to properly advertise and market one of the most accessible products they produce.

Mario Kart 8 along with Breath of the Wild, Lego City, and the inevitable Smash Bros 'remaster' are making me wish Nintendo had a little more to offer up for those of us who didn't jump ship and abandon them during the last 4 years.

So Radar Scope failed, Miyamoto came up with a concept for a Popeye arcade game and won over his boss. King Fisher wouldn't give up the rights to Popeye, so Miyamoto redesigns Popeye into Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong becomes a hit, King Fisher changes its mind about the licensing, Miyamoto then creates a proper Popeye game.

Is that it?

It would be very cool if they decided to release the scans and artwork to allow other arcade fans to re-create their own Sky Skipper cabs. It's unlikely, but one can hope!

Either way, a rare move by NOA to let outsiders into the vault and share some Nintendo magic!!

Excited to see the camera lens at the bottom of the unit. Would be cool to have a video chat option like the Wii U does.

It was a non-existent issue when Nintendo ditched Duel Screens in the Game and Watch line for the first time to go single screen for the original GameBoy...in 1989...
We are all going to be just fine.

I just want to point out that the images online showing the screen portion of the unit has 2 small slots on either side for speakers, as well as what seems to be a single off-centered camera lens!! Looks a lot like a cell phone camera and I haven't seen anyone report on that feature yet!!

I genuinely believe this system will support motion controls and touchscreen as well. It's too perfect an opportunity to re-sell every game in nintendo's past console libraries!

As a Donkey Kong arcade fan, this was a really great article! However, I'm fairly sure Ikegami Tsushinki was a developer/company, not simply a single man.
The story behind DK and it's confusing history are something I always find interesting and exciting to learn about! New info and stories seem to come to light every few years!

Finally! Chase cold case!!

Love me some Kyle Hyde.

Not even Suda 51 does B-horror fun like Zombies Ate My Neighbors did. Even the sequel was half-way good, with the slide move. But the original is a classic.. Miss you Lucas arts!

I'm sure NOA has a room like this as well.......

Great interview!! I've still got my boxed copy of Plok I picked up at the mall in 92'. Plok has always been a huge favorite of mine and even in the wave of 'me too' platformers, Plok was always a stand out game. I remember emailing one of the brothers years ago trying to find an unfinished ROM of Fleapit even! I will have to pick these comics up. I would love to see another game in the series! And come on.. That music!!!

CING made some of the best games ever created for the DS, so this is great news. I will be buying this and playing the minute it's available!