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Vooks: New NES and SNES Online games will no longer be released monthly (Will now update irregularly)
- Thread starter ggx2ac
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I'm worried that it means they will be released less often while I'm still paying the yearly fee, I mean it's not "expensive" but this gives them a free pass to continue charging while also not release games regularly.
They might want the games out sooner so they can get to bringing out Gameboy games more quickly. Or even in the opposite way, they might feel there's no rush because they're going to be adding another system of games to add to everything already there.
Either way, I don't think we'll be waiting another year before they add another system.
Either way, I don't think we'll be waiting another year before they add another system.
This is legit, everyone wanted SNES games (myself included)...and now we have them and Nintendo is basically saying they don't know when they'll release more.
Yup, as always it's 2 steps forward, 1 step back with Nintendo.
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I think (hope) the bottom line is that you will end up with more NES/SNES releases on a yearly basis, however they might just be spread out to 4 to 6 release windows in the year.
I'm guessing they have numbers that suggest the two NES games added each month did next to nothing to bring people back to the app lol
Yeah, it's unreal. I get that licensing is not exactly "press a button to obtain permissions", but (while completely different services and all) we see Microsoft, Sony, EA and Ubisoft ramping up their services, increasing their value continously to offer more and more games as close as it's possible to their launch (in Microsoft's case, that means day 1 or even day 0 in the case of Gears 5). Meanwhile, Nintendo managed to trickle a whopping 2 games from the 1980s each month, for once they finally manage to throw in 20 games from the 90's in one run, they immediately imply that the next games will not arrive next month, with future additions that could take months to arrive. Thanks, I guess?
Rough outline of what we're probably gonna get:
October: 3 NES, 1 SNES
November: 5 NES, 2 SNES
December: Nothing
January: Nothing
February: 1 SNES
March: Nothing
April: 2 NES
May: Nothing
June: 12 NES, 7 SNES
July: 3 NES, 3 SNES
August: They accidentally throw up the FF7-9 ports for about 30 minutes before Nintendo remembers they didn't make the Playstation
September: Nothing, but hey, there's a $60 remaster of OoT 3D for you to buy now!
October: 3 NES, 1 SNES
November: 5 NES, 2 SNES
December: Nothing
January: Nothing
February: 1 SNES
March: Nothing
April: 2 NES
May: Nothing
June: 12 NES, 7 SNES
July: 3 NES, 3 SNES
August: They accidentally throw up the FF7-9 ports for about 30 minutes before Nintendo remembers they didn't make the Playstation
September: Nothing, but hey, there's a $60 remaster of OoT 3D for you to buy now!
If that's the case, they were looking at two solutions:
1) Increase the quality and pace of games to give people more reasons to log back in.
2) Decrease the frequency of games because it's not worth the effort.
I'm somehow not that surprised they went for option 2 :\
Strategize? What is there to strategize.
It's fucking simple: Put games on paid service on a regular basis.
Not "put a bunch of games and wait a year to release mother 2 just before annual renewal".
The schedule and output didn't help them at all, just wondering if not having some sort of deadline to adhere to can lead to quicker prep for more games every few months.
Really, I just want to go back to 2005 and tell someone at Nintendo to set up some sort of account system for the Revolution, tie all VC purchases into that instead of doing it at the hardware level, and letting players carry those games forward to newer systems. We could have avoided so many headaches...
There always is.... So frustrating being a fan of Nintendo games.
It better be 20 at a time then. I hate playing this game of waiting for three crap games then getting an SP version of the same games next month. These games are old and a LOT of them are bad and barely worth booting. It needs to be 20 at a time and we need N64 and GC game tomorrow.
But this is the first time it's games from the 90's. I have fond memories with NES games but due to obvious reasons, many of them aged worse than SNES games, thus offering less value right now. 20 SNES games out of nowhere is a good drop, and albeit many of them are already in my collection in some ways (SNES Classic, other ports, etc.), it's good. It sucks that they immediately had to point out that not even those 2 games per month are now a given, because that was already a low number to begin with.
I believe they made a business decision. Without an account system we have to rebuy every generation. Except this time they figured to just use it as added value for the online service and to sell it separately with Mini's.
And it is awful. A crappy emulation wrapper, a random assortment of titles. No true offline play. No individual apps to manage, I am at Nintendo's behest.
Switch was the perfect platform for the rebirth of the Virtual Console. I'm so disappointed at the missed potential.
I'm all for that but the frequency is not going to be good, like other said see yah in 2020 when we only get 20 games in the year. Freaking nintendo