Nintendo Planned To Continue Virtual Console Model For Switch Prior To Shift To NSO

Nintendo had originally planned to continue its Virtual Console model for the Switch before it shifted to NSO, according to a leaked email.

[_SilverHawk_]

I can't believe Nintendo would rent games to people where the whole catalog as a whole is worth less than the yearly subscription price.

[Tacoboto]

A yearly subscription cost to NSO+Expansion Pack is $50.

$50. Cheaper than a single new game.

[Profchaos]

I take it you've never tried to buy any retro games then.

Earthbound a single she's game can go for hundreds of dollars while even basic games that are plentiful like super Mario Bros 3 can still run into the 30 odd dollar territory for a pretty wrecked copy.

So no I would say if you took the total value of the nso library and attempted to buy those games it would be extremely expensive and time consuming

[RedDevils]

Just use an emulator

[Profchaos]

@reddevils I tend to agree in a way I use everdrive flash carts on retro systems because I find emulation is to sharp and clear and looses a lot of the effects but for most people it's fine.

But the argument here was the value that all the games on the nso service were somehow worth less than the cost of a years subscription

[ZeekQuattro]

The later years of VC were horrible. Basically TurboGrafx games and little else as more and more 3rd party companies opted to do their own retro game collections. Which honestly I prefer as I can usually get those physically.

[ZycoFox]

Or they could've just made a plug in device with multiple cart slots for backwards compatibility.. I don't know how well that would've worked but similar worked well for them before.

[DarXyde]

Hot take here, but I like Nintendo. They're weird and backwards and take forever to meet some standards we come to expect and take for granted today... But I love their games and commitment to a different vision for gaming that at least tries to make fun factor the priority.

Where I think they're crazy is charging $50 for a service that's, in my opinion, inferior to the PS3's free PSN.

[BlaqMagiq1]

The shift to NSO is idiotic. Paying to play 20+ year old games monthly will NEVER make sense to me. Bring back VC like it should've never left and I will buy your old games to play whenever I want.

[Agent75]

The Switch home screen isn't too good, Wii U home screen was much better. Wish Nintendo would bring it back for Switch 2.

[Profchaos]

The Wii U home screen was so broken there was a hard cap in place of around 300 tiles any more and it would error outside of that yeah I liked it but I also like switch

[Retro1986]

Would love the oppurtunity to buy all snes games, sega games etc in physical form on cartridge. SNES collection, sega collection etc. Even better would be if they are updated so we can choose to play it in original settings or modern settings with updated resolution, scale etc.