You may recall that, yesterday, Nintendo announced that Banjo-Kazooie is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service the following day. As promised, the game is now available, so the time has come for Nintendo to move on to the next Nintendo 64 game that is planned to be added.
Well, Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service in February. As with Banjo-Kazooie’s release, Nintendo will more than likely give a date that is more specific in the near future. When they do, we’ll let you know. In the meantime, you can see Nintendo of America’s official tweet about the matter down below.
At this point were gonna have a total of 11 new games release on this service untill they ask us to pay another $50, I’m opting out if thats the case, smash and mario party probs won’t be on this service till the next year or 2.
Everyone’s really addicted to being misleading about this price. It isn’t $50 for 11 games. You’re cutting out the Genesis games, as well as the Animal Crossing DLC. But then, that $50 isn’t just for that either, as $50 is the price for the base membership AND the expansion, so you have to include all the games already on the service for the NES and SNES. Its a $30 bump over the normal membership though, and even if it were ONLY those 11 games (which it isn’t), that’s less than $3 a game, which is cheaper than Nintendo has ever offered this content before.
Then there’s the family plan option, which nobody mentions in spite of it destroying most of the complaints about price. Going from 50 to 70, an additional $20, you go from 1 membership, to 7 memberships, that do not have to be immediate relations, live in the same house, or use the same switch or account. Know 4 people who play the Switch? Go in on a family plan together and you’re in it for $17.50, less than the original membership without the N64 and Genesis games.
All that said I still don’t think its a particularly amazing deal either, but I’ve yet to see someone complaining about the price do so accurately.
It’s that price regardless whether or not you’re interested in the other titles. If they allowed the N64 titles to be separate at a cheaper price it would probably be more excusable, but as it sounds now it’s not inaccurate to say you need to pay $50 to play the N64 games with the new features on the Switch. You have a point with the family plan though, I’m using that to make it cheaper for my friends and I.
“It’s that price regardless whether or not you’re interested in the other titles. ”
That’s not relevant to an objective description of the service. That is subjective, based only around your own personal preferences. Someone else might like the AC DLC and the Genesis games, and not care about N64 at all.
“but as it sounds now it’s not inaccurate to say you need to pay $50 to play the N64 games with the new features on the Switch.”
That’s not what was said though. “At this point were gonna have a total of 11 new games release on this service untill they ask us to pay another $50”. The term “n64” was never mentioned. It was said as though that was the only thing you were paying for.
People who are saying that are implying that’s the only thing they’re interested in, they’re not saying it literally. The vast majority aren’t interested in Genesis.
Was gonna chime in about this. Literally nobody cares about the Genesis games. It’s a neat thing to have on the side, but nobody purchased the expansion pack because of them. I mean just look at how the N64 controller has been sold out since it was available to purchase vs the plentiful amount of genesis controllers. Everyone cares about the N64 games because this is a Nintendo service. If anything the Genesis games and the Animal Crossing DLC were tacked on to the price tag to make it seem more worthwhile when it gets scrutinized, but when it comes down to it those additions don’t mean anything for the majority of people who just want to play N64 on their Switch, which seems to be the majority of expansion pack subscribers considering all the clamor for N64 games on Switch over the lifespan of the console.
So technically, yes expansion pack gives you a lot of extra content with two extra libraries of games to play as well as renting the dlc of a major console release. However, when you put it under the scope of the people who just want to play from one of those libraries (N64 lol), then it doesn’t really matter what that extra content is outside of the N64 stuff. That’s why people complain about the pricing, the drip feed, the emulation quality, etc.
I love how you guys always throw the family plan is cheaper argument, I only know a few people who have switches where I live, and none of them want to pay for the expanaion service (majority of them have the orginal service anyway)I’m still not claiming the genesis games as the excuse for the price as you can easily play most of the genesis game almost anywhere from the sega ported collections, not to mention sega is already relasing a sonic genesis collection this year as apart of his anniversary, I’m pretty sure sonic 1, and 2 have been ported to the eshop 2 times seperately, buying animal crossing dlc is cheaper on its own rather than getting it with the service, and I know everyone doesn’t like animal crossing, so isn’t quite obvious that the only good thing about this service is being able to play n64 games online and on the go, it also doesn’t help that one of the games that launch early on the service was literally part of limited time release (I already purchased the 3d collection and played mario 64), just like shinygold2 said this service probably wouldn’t get too much flank if you could purchase these games seperate, I don’t even like majora mask so thats already a huge skip for me if I had the choice I would have just brought kirby and a good amount of mario games considering the factor that I haven’t played any 64 games aside from mario 64 and mario kart 64
If I end up having somebody opt out from my group eventually I could add you. I feel like we’ve grown to know each other a fair bit.
I have 6 open spaces in my family membership
Sounds good but I’ll have to consider it I graduated last month so money is a bit tight, and I’m still job hunting so I have to balance alot on what I plan to spend my money on.
“I love how you guys always throw the family plan is cheaper argument”
Who is “you guys”? I’m not on a team here. I don’t care if you don’t like the service or it is considered “good”.
“I’m still not claiming the genesis games as the excuse for the price”
You don’t have to “excuse” anything. You have to be accurate with your words. It is not a Nintendo 64 service for $50. Objectively. I think your criticism of the reduction in emulated Genesis games’ value is spot on. That doesn’t mean it isn’t part of the service, or that online play isn’t part of the service. Or that any of the other things you get for the service aren’t also part of the service.
Why list the price as $50 and not $30? The first 20 is for online play and NES/SNES games, and has nothing to do with the N64? The answer is because your complaint sounds a lot better if you say its $50 for 11 N64 games.
“nd I know everyone doesn’t like animal crossing, so isn’t quite obvious that the only good thing about this service is being able to play n64 games online and on the go,”
Contending that NO ONE gets value from the Animal Crossing DLC is obviously ridiculous. The game sold 35 million copies. YOU might not care, but that’s precisely where the rubber meets the road with our disagreement here. You’re using entirely 100% subjective valuations on everything, then applying the price tag to that as though it is objective. You’re cutting out the overwhelming majority of what you get for that $50 not because they aren’t part of the product, which they are, but because you don’t personally care about those things. Well that’s all well and good, I hope they make a better product for you in the future. But you presented this information as though 90% of the product doesn’t exist, as is the general trend on forums about Nintendo products.
Week after week people complain that Nintendo releases 2 new NES games on their subscription service and how horribly cheap and unfair that is, while I’ve been a PS+ subscriber for oh….. 11 years or so, and can speak to the fact that you are super lucky if you get one game a year that you actually want that carries any value whatsoever.
Sure, you might not PERSONALLY have a way to use the family plan, and hey, kudos to the community here for trying to hook a friend up. That doesn’t mean though that the family plan doesn’t exist, and you get to ignore it when evaluating the product.
No hard feelings here, I’m not attacking you. When I said “addicted” in my first post, I did not mean to point the finger a lot at you specifically. Near as I can tell, just about everyone is doing this. We all see a product that’s lackluster at best and we wish were better and we are doing what the internet does best……… “reframing” things a bit to better suit our point.
Lol it’s seems like you miss an ignored most of main points funny how you try to use my animal crossing quote on me, yet you forgot that the factor that it’s easily cheaper to purchase the dlc by itself I said that in my comment and yet you seem to skim over it that doesn’t really matter tho, a game can have high sells but that doesn’t mean everyone who brought the base game will buy the dlc please don’t tell me you forgot how alot of people got burn out on the newest installment due to some major features being missing from the game the animal crossing dlc is like $20 so if you remove it from service please tell me how much will it cost $30 right which is basically a $10 upcharge of the original service that’s really how much the service should actually cost, I only said you guys because alot of people who try to pretend that the pricing is excuse able always brings up the family plan being feels like copy and paste whenever someone uses it in the online service, and you do care about whether I like the service or not because your responding back with paragraphs if you didn’t care you wouldn’t be responding to me anyway.
Do you expect people to be like “I bought this for the N64 games and I don’t care about the Genesis games, DLC, etc.” as a disclaimer to tell people what they really mean? Because that is ridiculous. People say “I don’t subscribe to Disney+ because all there is on there is Star Wars and the occasional Marvel show” and people know they don’t literally mean that’s all there is on there. People shouldn’t have to spell out what they mean exactly to appease people like you.
You can’t include the Animal crossing DLC because even if you pay for it, it’s still $50, they don’t give you a discount and even then I think it’s wrong to force DLC on to people who don’t even own the game. Why incorporate something into a subscription if the option to buy it out right is available? Honestly, all we are paying for is $50 for Sega Genesis, SNES, NES, and N64 games, the voice chat app and services and whatever other needle thin basic perks. I still think at most $34.99 yearly would be a much better price. The biggest reason to purchase it is to play online and that doesn’t even make sense considering nothing was improved
Despite that, I agree with you.
I will pay ANY price for Excitebike 64!!! No other game made today can beat it. Game play is more important than graphics.
It’s still cheaper than other online subscriptions, but I think Nintendo should throw in a bit more.
Receiving the dlc for ac is a bit of a joke when only limited players will benefit from it.
Maybe something free every now and then, I downloaded daysgone for free b4 Christmas on PlayStation, why can’t Nintendo do something like this.
There should def be the option to purchase games separately too, so you can actually keep them
Meh.
Idk why but I’ve always had MM crash on VC and the Gamecube port. I can’t imagine NSO will be any better… if not worse.
A bit enticing as this game is still on my to do list. I finally played through Ocarina of Time via the 3ds version, but I heard the 3ds version of Majora’s Mask makes some bad decisions so I never played it.
Don’t let that stop you from the 3DS version. It’s very beautiful, more streamlined, and really only bad decisions are the 4 boss battles and you won’t even realize it as a first-time player. Also maybe Zora swimming but also not a dealbreaker. Totally worth it for the gorgeous update to the game.
Streamlined is a good way to describe MM3D for better or for worse tbh. On one hand the time restraint mechanics were streamlined to make the game less stressful and difficult for newer audiences which lets them more easily get into the game and complete it. On the other hand the stress from the original game was a huge part of the overall feel of the game that added dread and suspense to every little thing culminating into one of the most gripping aspects of the game: a desolate atmosphere with the only glimmer of hope being an outside hero who knows no one, and no one knows him. Don’t get me wrong I love the updated visuals of MM3D and find them gorgeous myself, but something is definitely lost without the drab, darkness that the original has.
Nerrel made a great video on YouTube talking about the good and bad about MM3D from the perspective of someone who’s favorite game is MM. He’s snarky, but fair with his analyses. I definitely recommend giving his video a watch if you haven’t already.
Seriously, don’t bother with the 3DS remake- they changed so many things that really didn’t need to be touched. Sure there are a few QoL changes (like not being forced to sit through a 20-second cutscene every 3-day cycle, you’re only forced to see it fully the first time) and the game looks considerably better than the N64 original, but that can be said of any remake of an old game on stronger hardware. The only boss that was actually improved was the third one and even then it was only partially, because they added an eye weak point to all of them which doesn’t make any sense; the fourth boss is also borderline broken on the 3DS. Zora swimming was slowed down so much outside of using magic (which until later, you don’t have an unlimited amount of) that it took the fun out of it.
If you have a group of friends and/or a couple family members go in on the family plan, the 80 bucks is 10 bucks per person since up to 8 people can be on one plan. When you add the fact that it’s a “once a year” payment, 80 bucks isn’t really all that bad. If just two people share the price load, that’s 40 bucks between the two. At that price, this service is actually superior to PS+. Especially when you take into account that PlayStation Now (basically what NSO’s NES, SNES, N64, & Sega Genesis apps are based upon) is a separate expense from PS+. For PS+ AND PlayStation Now for a year, that’s over 120 bucks.
With those factors in mind, I’m not as bothered by the price. That all said, I won’t fault anyone for having an issue. (Nor troll everyone like that other guy’s been doing.)
Now if the price for NSO jumps to 120 (or more) if or when they add more things like Game Boy, GBA, GCN, etc, then I’ll take issue. Here’s to hoping the current price is future proofed for when they add those extra apps, though, to make 80 bucks even less of a huge asking price.
Definitely interesting