You may recall that, late last year, Nintendo announced that Banjo-Kazooie would be one of the Nintendo 64 games coming to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service in the future. You may also recall that, last month, they announced that it would be arriving in January.
Well, there is now an exact date. Nintendo has announced that “Banjo-Kazooie is coming to Nintendo Switch for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members on January 20th”. Nintendo of America tweeted the news on their official Twitter account, so you can see their tweet down below.
So I guess we’re gonna get Kirby 64 in march , really hope they cut out the one game a month stuff cause it seems like their dragging it to see how many people will buy into this till October since that would mark a year since they released it, this still feels so scummy and I’m hoping they add some changes to the service if they expect people to invest in this.
Whatever, dude! :D
Nah even from a basic marketing sense he’s correct. Switch online is required to play games online (lol duh), but the expansion pack isn’t. The expansion pack costs a premium that not everyone wants to give without getting a lot in return. Animal Crossing DLC is a niche, so that alone can’t be worth it, Mega Drive games have largely been forgotten already, so that leaves the customer with the N64 games. Frankly the selection of games is decent; it’s got a little bit for everyone, but decent doesn’t cut it for a premium priced product. I have friends who have played each game already and they’ve already decided that they won’t ever go back to them rendering the game selection even smaller in comparison. What would make NSO Expansion better is a literally just adding more worthwhile games, but the issue is that they slowly bring us those games via a drip feed, one a month deal. Why should people buy the expansion pass now instead of waiting until later when there are significantly more worthwhile games down the line? That’s why it feels scummy to felix, I’m guessing. We’re paying for something that is incomplete, and that’s crap
Lol I don’t remember directing my comment towards you, not to worry though as everyone in the comments might clown ya again.
Yeah, because you’re all buffoons :D
Yep. Everyone’s wrong except you. Way to go, champ.
Didn’t they say “early January” in the tweet they made last month? Because January 20th is not early January- the month is already more than half over.
They just said January
Rejoice!
I can play it right now without having to pay a yearly fee :)
Go Pirates!
https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/xbox-360/products/banjo-kazooie/103605.html
Notice that, while still digital, you only have to pay one fee and not have to pay a yearly fee to own it.
Then go to a Xbox news site…
Why would they need to go to an Xbox site? can someone not like xbox and nintendo at the same time? or do you have nothing else to say when someone provides a valid counter argument to your assumption?
Why do you assume it’s piracy? That only makes you look bad, and you already have a rep for that here.
For what? Paying $50 bucks to play poorly optimized games that they drip feed you?
Awesome. I do wish games would release a little faster on this service though.
Here’s hoping Diddy Kong Racing shows up at some point.
It’s sort of stupid they couldn’t have told us the date when they first announced Banjo-Kazooie was coming to the empty expansion pack in January the first place.
Maybe they wanted to add suspense.
Ah yes, the best business decision to entice customers: lack of clarity masked as “suspense”
I can’t tell if you’re taking my comment seriously or not. Hopefully you weren’t because I wasn’t being serious when I wrote it. 😅
Oh don’t worry. It was just something funny that popped into my head when I read your comment lol
Have they fixed the N64 games yet? You know that the US version of Paper Mario has laggy menus and will 100% crash and lose save data if you die with Watt in your party? Hackers have figured out how to fix this issue. I’m not hacking my Switch to fix something that Nintendo should fix because I’M PAYING A YEARLY FEE FOR IT.
EU version doesn’t have that problem. I played through the whole game with no problems whatsoever.
That doesn’t change anything I said. In fact, it makes Nintendo look worse for not fixing the problem like it’s an impossible fix.
I’m nearly done Paper Mario on the NSO 64 and never ran into that problem?
It happens when you get a game over with Watt in your party. The electric particles cause a crash on that screen because of some variables only present in the US rom. It’s bizarre
I haven’t dealt with laggy menus, but yeah I seen people activate the watt glitch, I use the emulator saves system on the service though cause I’m just a bit paranoid with activating any glitch on the service.
That’s another known issue? Crashing just because a certain party member is active when you lose?
That’s bad. Really bad. How does something like that evade QA?
They lying. Immon it now I dont see Banjo-Kazooie. Just like they lied 7 years ago Pikmin 4 was nearly complete
It’s the 20th WTF is B-K?
Still dont see it. Just stop with the lies.
The date was 21st of January. This site got it wrong.
The official tweet says 20th. C’mon… get SOMETHING correct here, man
I been waiting all day for Banjo-Kazooie. Just admit yall didnt get the agreement with Microsoft and lied just to get people to get the expansion pak. Come on tell the truth shame the devil.