Famed video game designer and producer Hideki Kamiya has told IGN that he would love to see the iconic Virtual Console return with the Nintendo Switch 2. The Virtual Console was consigned to the grave with the launch of the current Switch and replaced with Nintendo Switch Online subscription service and its retro game catalogue. Here’s what Kamiya told IGN:
Well, speaking of new technologies, do any of you have any opinions on the Nintendo Switch 2?
Hirabayashi: This is something that we really can’t comment on from Capcom side at all, because yeah, it’s about the Nintendo Switch 2. Anything that comes out would come out from Nintendo.
Kamiya: As a personal comment, I personally would love to see the Virtual Console rebooted. That’s something that I would really want to ask Nintendo for.
Give me GameCube games for the love of god
I could see them doing GameCube games for Virtual Console… but likely not for the NSO. GameCube games are just too large, a potential NSO GameCube with a full catalog of games would be at least 20-30GB in size.
Cool. But with pains subscription, it VC still possible??
Oops. I meant paid.
That’s the thing, they probably won’t.
They switched to a paid subscription model in response to the complaint that people were repurchasing a bunch of their VC games prior due to Nintendo’s then-inability to switch to an account-based system where things aren’t tied to the hardware.
I was just responding to OP, saying that IF they were to ever do GameCube games, it’d be in the form of VC, not an NSO GameCube app.
And the games too long to bother paying for continuously, GCN onwards.
As much as I’d like to see this too. Nintendo’s already confirmed they’re keeping the online service they have currently for the foreseeable future. Hopefully they actually care about having better online for their games…
But despite the usual way they change their classic catalog each generation, I have a feeling if they’re keeping the current NSO virtual console is permanently replaced. Which is sad, because I thought it was a better way to access older games for a handheld.
I imagine the online subscription will still be the way for the older games and a purchase option probably not on the table.
I’ve purchased several before though on 3ds.
What would be nice is a special physical copy of a compilation of classic games.
Just let me pay for all the games again, Nintendo.
It won’t happen, that’s the problem.