![]() Also, the Nintendo 64’s unique controller layout is hard to replicate on a traditional controller, making some of these games very awkward to play. The emulation of some of those Nintendo 64 games is pretty rough. ![]() Many of the Genesis games were already available on the Switch through the Sega Genesis Classics collection, but this is the first time Nintendo’s late ‘90s library has made it onto the Switch. Still, it gets you instant access to some of the greatest games of the ‘90s, including Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, Streets of Rage 2, Gunstar Heroes, and more. That’s still cheaper than what Xbox and PlayStation players pay annually for online gaming, although the Switch’s online infrastructure isn’t nearly as feature-rich or efficient as those services. ![]() The new plan is $50 a year, and doesn’t have a monthly option. The new Expansion Pack add-on more than doubles that price-and it’s the only way to get those Nintendo 64 and Genesis games. Since it launched Nintendo Switch Online has cost $4 a month or $20 for a year, which is significantly cheaper than online subscriptions for other consoles, and not a bad deal for a growing library of old games that were being sold by Nintendo for $5 a piece through the Virtual Console as recently as a few years ago. This is a beefed-up version of the Switch’s online subscription plan, which not only lets people play against each other online, but also grants access to dozens of classic NES and SNES games, as well as new competitive games like Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99. Nine Nintendo 64 games and 14 Sega Genesis games are now available on the Switch as part of the absurdly named Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. Pay $50 upfront for a full year, Nintendo told fans, or don't play at all.Nintendo fans have been waiting for Nintendo 64 games to hit the Switch ever since the console-handheld hybrid came out, and they’ve finally gotten their wish-only in that monkey’s paw kind of way. But what about performance, options, and controls? Without a "one month" subscription option to the NSO Expansion Pack, interested fans had no low-cost way to find out. A brief sizzle reel highlighted the collection's biggest games, including Super Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64. For many interested fans, that price jump was about the N64 collection.Īnd as its Monday launch neared, Nintendo remained mum on exactly how this NSO N64 collection would work. Never mind that the price also included an Animal Crossing expansion pack (which retro gaming fans may not want) and Sega Genesis games (which have been mostly released ad nauseam on every gaming system of the past decade). That "bit extra" ballooned to $30 more per year, on top of the existing $20/year fee-a 150 percent jump in annual price. One month later, however, Nintendo's sales proposition grew more sour. Pay a bit extra, the company said, and you'd get a select library of N64 classics, emulated by the company that made them, on Switch consoles as part of an active NSO subscription. Unfortunately, the result isn't exactly the Super Mario 64-styled "wa-hoo!" we'd been hoping for.Īfter years of "N64 mini" rumors (which have yet to come to fruition), Nintendo announced plans to honor its first fully 3D gaming system late last month in the form of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. On Monday, Nintendo released its latest collection of emulated N64 games-and its first since the Wii U's Virtual Console-as a package of games exclusively available on its Switch consoles. ![]() Aurich Lawson | Nintendo reader comments 159 with
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