#SNES APP SWITCH CODE#
After all, the names of 22 SNES games appeared in the NES Online code back in January but were removed in February - so it clearly seems to simply be a matter of time. I think SNES games are likely coming later this year, in September. Switch already has a wide array of retro games, but they're disparate and don't appear under a unified banner. Even if Nintendo launched SNES Classics Online (which I fully expect to happen), they're not necessarily going to launch it with significant backing from the likes of Capcom, Sega, Konami and Square-Enix because those publishers now sell their back-catalogue as compilations, or in forms like Arcade Archives or Sega Ages. Virtual Console changed that and demonstrated the value gamers place on older games. Retro compilations were few and far between 13 years ago and few publishers bothered resurrecting previously Japan-only games. Secondly, as numerous other people have pointed out, publishers now have their own ways of re-releasing their back catalogues. So I think one simple reason Nintendo have a) taken their retro service outside of the eShop and b) limited the number of releases is because there's only so much content people can buy and play, and Nintendo's own (beloved) back catalogue would be firm competition for an already crowded marketplace.
It's something that you'll see when you look at best-sellers on the 3DS and Switch eShops - Virtual Console and retro releases regularly crop-up and take time and money away from original content. If you look at Nintendo's rate of releases for Virtual Console, it actually begins to decline in 2008/2009, when they launched WiiWare - presumably because Nintendo didn't want retro releases to over-compete with the new titles they wanted consumers to buy. The first point to consider is the growth of original digital content and indie gaming. But we're also 13 years on from Virtual Console and the digital landscape in gaming has changed massively in that time. I agree it was excellent and the way it incorporated numerous non-Nintendo systems and brought games to America and Europe for the first time was very exciting.
The way retro content is distributed has changed massively since Virtual Console debuted on Wii - at that point it really was the first mainstream attempt at a retro games service. But that still leaves me without many N64 games on the go, no access to SNES games on the go, and no chance to re-visit Wii games that I wouldn't mind playing again except handheld. They made me get a fucking 2DS to buy SML2, and while the game is still great, I really didn't want to get another device to play it. But this? They're just refusing to sell me Super Mario Land 2 on the Switch for some reason, and it really sucks. Other than Link's Awakening, they haven't really re-made anything else major from pre-WiiU for Switch, right? If they were churning out remakes of their first-party games with more speed, I'd at least get it. People (no, I can't cite them, but I've read the argument here and other places) made the argument that Nintendo might have been holding back to grow their Switch eShop revenue via indie games and that maybe they wanted to give indies room to breathe and make the Switch an inviting place for developers who wouldn't want to compete with old Nintendo games, but the giant disorganized mess that the eShop currently is definitely nullifies the positive effects of artificially limiting competition by holding back Nintendo games (if the conjecture on Nintendo's strategy was even true in the first place). I just don't get the reason that they're gating people off from their own games.
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