I am fairly sure you will never see Square Enix games on the Nintendo Switch Online service. They instead sell them to you for $20+ a piece in the eShop, Steam, and mobile markets. The expansion pack is getting somewhat better, as the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC will be included also, but you are correct that it is looking very thin compared to competition and releases seem to be a random trickle.
As much as we want to tout Virtual Console as being great for preservation, it's success on the Wii is the reason it failed. Companies that didn't have much interest in the back catalogue (and would sell them cheaply) discovered people would pay to play them again. So among other reasons, the Wii U Virtual Console only saw support from a much more limited number of publishers, and the Switch Online Services even less. Why sell or lease a game for a fraction of profit when you can package them all together in a $60 "Collector's Edition"?
Also we then to ignore that this behavior was encouraged by us, the consumer. We are the ones that spoke with our wallets by running out and repurchasing a Final Fantasy or Super Mario Bros. game for the 10th time at an overinflated price. So Nintendo and Square think that 30 year old games still have a high value. Meanwhile, classic games by companies like Atari and Sega remain lower priced because the market won't pay the inflated one.
So while it is simple to accuse Nintendo of wrongdoing, we also need to look at ourselves and how we feed into the problem with our purchasing choices. Konami, Capcom, SNK, and all the others sell collections instead of individual Virtual Console games because our collective actions increased their perception of the games value and they responded. Nintendo and Square-Enix have always overpriced their legacy titles going all way back to Super Mario All-Stars on SNES and Final Fantasy Collection on PS1, but we have always come back to them to get our "fix".
Can you cite a source that isn't from a Russian state-controlled propaganda machine? Otherwise, this has all the credibility of a Trump campaign staff member alleging voter fraud to me.
Reading is difficult and time consuming. No one has time to actually read in our society, maybe If everyone could just use a Tik Tok video, animated gif, or meme pic...
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I am fairly sure you will never see Square Enix games on the Nintendo Switch Online service. They instead sell them to you for $20+ a piece in the eShop, Steam, and mobile markets. The expansion pack is getting somewhat better, as the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC will be included also, but you are correct that it is looking very thin compared to competition and releases seem to be a random trickle.
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As much as we want to tout Virtual Console as being great for preservation, it's success on the Wii is the reason it failed. Companies that didn't have much interest in the back catalogue (and would sell them cheaply) discovered people would pay to play them again. So among other reasons, the Wii U Virtual Console only saw support from a much more limited number of publishers, and the Switch Online Services even less. Why sell or lease a game for a fraction of profit when you can package them all together in a $60 "Collector's Edition"?
Also we then to ignore that this behavior was encouraged by us, the consumer. We are the ones that spoke with our wallets by running out and repurchasing a Final Fantasy or Super Mario Bros. game for the 10th time at an overinflated price. So Nintendo and Square think that 30 year old games still have a high value. Meanwhile, classic games by companies like Atari and Sega remain lower priced because the market won't pay the inflated one.
So while it is simple to accuse Nintendo of wrongdoing, we also need to look at ourselves and how we feed into the problem with our purchasing choices. Konami, Capcom, SNK, and all the others sell collections instead of individual Virtual Console games because our collective actions increased their perception of the games value and they responded. Nintendo and Square-Enix have always overpriced their legacy titles going all way back to Super Mario All-Stars on SNES and Final Fantasy Collection on PS1, but we have always come back to them to get our "fix".
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Can you cite a source that isn't from a Russian state-controlled propaganda machine? Otherwise, this has all the credibility of a Trump campaign staff member alleging voter fraud to me.
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Reading is difficult and time consuming. No one has time to actually read in our society, maybe If everyone could just use a Tik Tok video, animated gif, or meme pic...
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