Nintendo Switch Online is a great repository of gaming history, with dozens of NES classics from the '80s and '90s.
With the Switch Nintendo finally makes you pay to play online. You have to subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online to play online multiplayer, save your games to the cloud, or voice chat with other players. It’s the same type of model Microsoft and Sony have followed for almost two decades, but that Nintendo—always leery of online play to begin with—long resisted.
Here’s the thing about Nintendo Switch Online, though: I don’t even play games online, and I’ve still happily subscribed since it launched in 2018. That’s because, in addition to its online features, it also includes a library of the greatest videogames ever made. If you subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online, you also get access to dozens of classic games from the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Game Boy Color.
Nintendo’s not being precious or overly protective of its games, here—it’s basically turned some of its biggest and most important games, ones that it’s always tried to tightly control access to, into toss-ins for an online games service. As somebody who spent hundreds of dollars rebuying old guys on the Wii’s Virtual Console, I like that, a.
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