Nintendo's Switch Online Expansion Pack Trailer Is Its Most Disliked Video Ever

None of this really affects me as I have Dolphin Emulator to play whatever I want so. Pff. Dunno why it is so much to ask for a 1080p 120 fps platform which is bare minimum what I want. No 4k/RTX needed really. Just something that is stable above 70fps... and where i can take my hard copy of Godzilla Unleashed and run it. No?

Okay back to Dolphin then.

I suppose this is a sign that they were not planning a Mini Nintendo 64 after all, or not anytime soon anyway (if they count on this service for their players base to play N64 games... what would be the point of making a Mini N64, I wonder).

Lazy job at bringing us back to some of the best games ever made. Course we're upset with nintendo lol. What a let down. Also... It's not even what we really want!!!

Where's our actual pro model switch? Where's metroid prime 4? Why don't we have better controllers dawg? Stuff like that yo!

Advice to the wise... Want to get into retro 64 games? Hdmi mod your orig n64. Get some brawler controllers. And a everdrive. Best way to experience the old school stuff in a modernish way. It is pricey though sad to say : (

I "liked" how some video game "reviewers" called people who disliked it unfair and privileged. Sorry when you create a live service for $50 and its just two systems decades old it better work and be better then what people can find through emu. Sorry Nintendo should not have to do bare minimum and ask for that kind of money not when other live services offer more product and cheaper.

Shoulda skipped both Genesis and N64, just went GB/GBC/GBA for an additional 5-10 a year.

Prorated? I got a little over 13 months to go, and I save a whole whopping 20 cents. $4.79 (I'd be getting ACNHL DLC anyway) for 23 games that barely work is $5 too much.

Eh its nintendo fans who cares. Next news you gonna hear gonna be the expansion pack exceed sales expectations. Already here you got fans defending this sh.t

I think the whole problem may be the Animal Crossing DLC. The AC DLC by itself is $25 if I'm not mistaken, so if you actually care about AC the deal is actually fairly good.

But including the AC DLC pretty much makes it so the expansion has to cost more than $25, but the majority of people don't care about the DLC and would rather have the N64 and Genesis libraries for an extra $10 or whatever.

I'm wondering if their intent was to make this a common theme where the expansion pass gives you access to Nintendo game DLCs. If that's the case the price would be a lot more justifiable, but they should have made that intention known from the get go.

This comes down to the way it's been presented and monetized. When this was $20 a year, most people were paying this for multiplayer. Unless you didn't give a shit about multiplayer and paid this for the NES/SNES games specifically, the purpose of it was for multiplayer. Thus, for most people, the NES/SNES libraries felt kind of like a bonus. A throw-in. Any shortcomings of the emulation have a lesser impact on the consumer.

With this "expansion pack", you're clearly paying for the N64/Genesis libraries. I mean maybe you're paying for the Animal Crossing DLC too... that's certainly a thing, but key point is that you're now paying directly for this. That game has now changed. You're paying for that specifically, so shortcomings have more of an impact now. Plus... y'know, I don't think the NES/SNES emulation had any glaring problems anyway. You could say a lack of features, sure... but it didn't have the list of problems that the N64 emulation does which doesn't help things either.

You think the subscription model is a rip off? You should check out their crappy, yester-year hardware. They've been pulling this shit for years.

If they're charging $50 a year, we expect similar to what we would get from PS Plus or Xbox Gold: a couple free SWITCH titles a month.

Meh it’s easy to whine about companies. And it’s fun. It’s a good enough service for now and it will get better.

In hind sight, Nintendo should have stayed away from paid online. As for retro games, they could probably have rolled N64, GB, GBC, and GBA into the base service, but offered to sell all titles separately as virtual console games for those that don't want to put up with weekly check ins. For an upgrade, they could have made the expansion pass $15 and offered Gamecube and Wii games.

My issue is with how the N64 games are performing, according to reports. If they're going to charge this much, the emulation better be perfect. Certain features are gone too. There are many SNES games that we are still waiting for too.

The pricing of this is consistent with Nintendo's inability to ever put their AAA first party games on sale on the Nintendo digital store. Stuff is NEVER on sale. If it is, it's for a holiday and is only $5 off.

Nintendo is a laughable company.

Rightfully so. 30 dollars would've been a tad bit more reasonable. 50 is outrageous.