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https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/nintendo-switch-virtual-console-report/
When Wii launched back in 2006, Nintendo introduced a feature that would become a selling point for many system adopters: the Virtual Console. The Virtual Console offered classic video games that could be purchased for a few dollars, with a library spanning not only Nintendo’s old systems, but also platforms like Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16. Nintendo continued to offer the Virtual Console feature on systems like Wii U and 3DS, but the Switch era saw a big change in how the company offers older games. Instead of selling them a la carte, Nintendo Switch Online lets users access them as part of their subscription.
This change has been a controversial one; a lot of fans don’t like that there isn’t a way to actually own these games. However, it seems that was not always the plan. As reported by Yakumono’s Blog (via Nintendo Life), leaked emails from iQue seem to show that a Virtual Console was in development for Switch. The blog suggests that Nintendo Switch Online subscribers would simply get to select one Virtual Console game they could download free to play for a month as a perk.
Yakumono’s Blog also details some of the issues that were debated early on. There were some concerns about fans being frustrated about having to purchase games again, and the library not being large enough at launch. Eventually, Nintendo and its emulation teams shifted to the current model, where subscribers are able to play all games on specific platforms based on their subscription tier. According to Yakumono’s Blog, the leaked documents indicate that the current model was designed with the intention of longterm support, which means that we won’t see the current apps rebooted with each console generation.
While emulation of older games isn’t perfect under the current Nintendo model, there are a lot of perks to having these apps, as opposed to selling games individually. Over the years, there have been reports that a lot of third-party developers weren’t happy with the Virtual Console, and the pricing structure made it more trouble than it was worth. Giving subscribers access to all of these games at the same time has encouraged Switch users to try games they probably wouldn’t have paid $5 or $10 to play. Personally, I wouldn’t have bought Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls or Extreme-G, but I spent time with both games when they were added to the N64 app. It’s a safe bet that a lot of other subscribers are in the same boat.
Nintendo Switch Online isn’t perfect, but it’s hard to disagree with the value the NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, GBA, and Sega Genesis apps have given the service. The death of Virtual Console might still be lamented by some fans, but if Nintendo really does plan on supporting these apps in the longterm, the value will only get better as time goes on.
I've been playing Super Mario RPG remake. I've underestimated how challenging this game would be. Some of these battles go on much longer than I expected.
Just been playing more Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake this weekend. Have also been watching Breaking Bad again. Love that show. Still probably my all time favourite tv series.
Been playing:
Started and finished Firewatch. Not sure what I think of it yet. Then re-started Doki Doki Literature Club (it hs no cloud saves so had to start again on Steam Deck). I have remained spoiler free for this game for years, but know there is a twist and I think I'm about to get to it. It better be good as for now, this game is DULLLLLLL.
I'm nearing the end of South Park: The Fractured But Whole this weekend. I thought I would finish it before the end of the weekend, but there seems to be quite a bit of story left.
I about 90% of the time that annoys me. You think a game is coming to a natural close then.... surprise 12 more hours. TLOU 2 was a memorable example.
And I really didn't care for where thst storyline went.
Aspro, I wanna hear some Firewatch impressions. I really enjoyed it, for the story.
Tax season is coming up...yay? I'm debating whether to do my own or hire someone.
I hired someone to do my taxes one time. That was when I had started my ad agency and I thought the incorporation might make things more difficult. It did, but the reality is TurboTax did everything that the guy I hired did, and cost half the price.
The lady that used to fo ours charged about $80. How much is turbo tax these days?
Yeah, move on, be happy $80 is cheap.
I will settle on my impressions, probably in a podcast. For now I am unresolved on it. But here are some notes. SPOILERS AHEAD EVERYONE.
- I don't think they dwelt on the emotional drag of his wife's malady to give sufficient currency for his action to take the job.
- They undercut, then never resolved something that happened early on, when the friend on the radio did not realise she was still on and said."... no he has no idea about it at all"
- As a result I never trusted her, which took away any emotional link they were trying to develop between the characters.
- They built up the grand consiracy pretty well, then deflated it and sort of ended it by going "Oh well, I guess that's that" They set up so many opportunities for a grand let down -- a great end would have been she was in on the conspiracy (and that it existed) and that the helicopter was not coming back for him and he burnt up as fast as a Malibu holiday house.
- Then when you do go, well that was a waste of time, and at least hit on her to see if the relationship can go somewhere she's like "Nah I got shit to do, call me maybe"
So I guess in a nutshell that's my problem with the narrative. Then from a gameplay perspective -- it's a walking simulator.
So I felt like when you go to a fine restaurant, because it looked like a top notch meal with plenty of craft and thought, but when I was done I was like -- that's it? No desert?
How about discord? They make it easy and the way I see it it's the primary mode or game streaming? I'm not even a casual expert on the mater though.
There was a lot of stuff going wrong with gamespot by the time I left. I think when they blew up the Unions that was the final straw.
As a joke I tried to get us all to go and flood the GGD a few years ago and start posting actively as a troll, I think on AC helped out. Joke was on us, it was completely dead. Like tumbleweeds rolling thorugh, stray dogs and shoeless bloated children staggering around asking if we had seen a moderator, and surely the moderators were real and would come back...
Looking at today's gaming news I posted I wish I could build a tunnel back to the 90's for refuge.
That could be the pain meds and tequila talking.
I wandered onto internet fora somewhere between Star Wars the Phantom Menace showing in cinema's and the launch of the GameCube. I first started reading GamesRadar a year or two prior, but ended up at Gamespot and a Eurogamer a while later. I made an account at Gamespot back when posting something actually took what seemed like several minutes and a lot of people still used their actual names. I always stuck to the GGD, although I ended up with the Virtual Underground quite some time after they introduced Unions. I thought that the whole idea of user created boards was a bad idea as it would drain quality forumites from the main boards.
Yup. Now you made me check the place out again darnit. I'm too melancholic of a type to look back at such things! I looked at my user account and it says I joined 24/02/2003, but I was there before, only all of that data has been lost in time. Browsed through the list of users I followed or who followed me. Man it's really been a long time.
edit: I've also made more posts here at the VGPress than that are recorded at GS. Huzzah for commitment.
I don't think all these Steam Deck-like handheld pc's will put a dent in the succes of the next Switch. Those handhelds aim at a very specific niche of the market, being people who are big enough into PC gaming to want such a device and who aren't such snobs as to put up with the 'inferior' hardware for the benefit of portability. If anything, I think small form factor PC's with Valve's own operating system will pose more of a threat to actual home consoles. That and Nintendo could easily dominate for 20 more years on household name alone.