feels like everything Nintendo does these days is is too little too late. I was playing gamecube games on my pc 15 years ago, 1080p, anti aliasing, save states, shaders, whatever controller I wanted, so on and so forth.
This is a nice plus for people who were going to buy a switch2 anyway, but from the perspective of someone who would need to be convinced (especially after being burned by nintendos asinine refund policy a few years back), I’m a bit offended by these paltry offerings.
Emulators for them but not for us
Nintendo have announced that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and Soul Calibur II will be launching first with other games such as Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Strikers, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Chibi-Robo, Pokémon Colosseum, Super Mario Sunshine, and more coming at a later date.
Super Mario Sunshine
You mean the game that’s already available on the Switch via Mario All-Stars?
Cmon, Nintendo.
No, it has been delisted from the shop, otherwise why people would pay a subscription for playing that
Wait, did they ACTUALLY delist it? Haven’t used my switch in a while.
That’s fucking insane if so.
Yes they artificially increased sales by FOMO by announcing a delisting date like 6 months after launch
In this way people thought “OMG better paying NOW $60 for this collection of decades old games or I’ll lose the chance in the future”
Meh. I was hoping for Windwaker to get a real release on Switch 2, not just become available as a GameCube title on Nintendo Switch Online
I was also baffled at using WW for the demo. Give me that port of Wii U port you cowards.
It was strange hearing them tout high resolutions and smooth gameplay when they have Wind Waker HD right there begging to be ported over.
Someday we’ll get the fabled Wind Waker HD + Twilight Princess bundle.
Launch title for Switch 3
Wii U ports will be available on the Switch 3 in 8 years
oh yeah, i forgot, my pc ran cemu just fine before my recent upgrade. I could totally play the wind waker remake.
In my opinion, this is awesome. It’s about damn time they added offical Gamecube support to their systems. 3 games at launch is a little weak, but if they support it like the rest of NSO, the library will probably be great within a year or so.
3 games is not a little weak. Its a fucking joke, but it’s Nintendo.
Well that’s pretty much how NSO started. It sucked at first with a tiny lineup of NES titles. Now there are tons of games and they’re still adding. I think it makes sense that they would hype up people with additional games added over time. I’m fine with that if I’m still paying $20/ year for NSO. I get enough value out of that as is, and more games at the same price is added value. But I absolutely agree that they should have started with more than 3 games.
Admittedly though, when I first commented on this, I hadn’t seen the new prices on Switch 2 yet. Now, I’m just as pissed as anyone else. I won’t be buying the system at all unless they drop their prices. And if they don’t, then I guess I will just stick to playing elsewhere.
Well, there goes the market value of my launch edition of Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (look it up, it’s no joke).
Honestly, given Nintendo’s scorched earth approach to third party emulation I’m not inclined to give them extra money on top of their base subscription for this. Double that for the choice of making visual improvements to backwards compatible games a paid upgrade.
ngl tbh I think that was my favorite FE game, so I’m glad if they make it easier for people to play
Oh, I’m super onboard with it. I don’t collect old games for speculative purposes. Hell, I didn’t collect that one at all, I just bought it when it came out.
If the Switch 2 does not have analogous triggers then GX is going to be a shadow of a game, unless you use the USB to GC adapter.
That’s why they sell you a special controller. You can pay to be able to pay for the games you are paying for.
Kind of weird to focus on something like an emulated GameCube version of Wind Waker when they already released a more definitive HD version.
Super Mario sunshine is my literal go to game
This is excellent news
It was a part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars bundle on Switch 1 although not having an analog trigger kinda sucks. New controller seems to have digital triggers again unfortunately.
Apparently, there is a design for GameCube controller for switch 2. If that one works at least similar to the first GC version, many gamers dreams will become true
We are SO BACK BOIS
MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU
Hope they won’t be coming for Dolphin now.
Pokemon Colosseum and XD listed as upcoming titles is very surprising. Does this open the door for the rest of the main series to come to the other NSO apps?
They’ve got to still be planning on the Wind Waker Wii U version release
Honestly maybe the best part of this is that when they add shit like Coloseum and XD to the service, it will probably bring down the cost of those physical games a little bit. I thought I’d never end up getting them in my collection because they were just too expensive to justify.
