Perhaps one day, it will be possible to play Link to the Past on your Switch. In the wake of news that the Nintendo Switch's online subscription service will include a Netflix-like library of NES games, fans have been wondering: Is the Virtual Console coming back? The answer to that question is no, according to Nintendo. Nintendo's previous three gaming consoles, the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U, each had their own versions of this Virtual Console, a branded shop with a limited selection of classic games from the NES, the Super Nintendo, the Nintendo 64, and other platforms. You could buy and download Virtual Console games piecemeal, then play them on your new console with some extra features, like save states. Although the library was fragmented and hard to keep track of - Final Fantasy VI, for example, is inexplicably only available on the Wii - the Virtual Console proved appealing to Nintendo fans who wanted to play or re-play entries in the company's massive classic library. Sega has also announced plans to to Nintendo's latest platform, a move that signalled the lack of a single unified store for classic games this time around. Before the system's launch, rumours had suggested the existence of a Switch Virtual Console that. I read the announcement as they were not bringing the old Virtual Console system to the Switch, but that they were bringing a better system for playing classic games? Read between the lines guys. They did NOT say anything about not bringing classic games to the Switch! There's already going to be a service in place to play NES games on the Switch, and it's not called the Virtual Console. I'm not interpreting this as meaning Nintendo are not bringing any more classic games to the system as a download service. It'll be called something else, possibly something specific for each old platform. I suspect the same thing but they really should announce that's the plan if it is, it'd certainly get people like myself a lot more interested in their online subscription. Right now I have very little interest as there's already more than enough ways for me to play the tiny selection of NES games they're going to give us at launch... Likely with a small hike in the subscription fee per module hence starting with the NES, and the lengthy nomenclature with games changing every few months. Well that's a smart business decision. There's already a team dedicated to hacking the Switch, and denying fans of the system the thing they've been asking for since the console launched is a sure-fire way to rally people against you. I've never been much of a fan of the Virtual Console system because it was tied to the console instead of an account, but even I would have paid money to access these old games on my Switch. Now I'll just hack it when it becomes convenient. Such a wasted opportunity. The lack of comprehension from people is frustrating and only promotes the spread of misinformation. Classic games will be made available on the Switch but not through exactly the same means as the previous method, Virtual Console. The media are not being helpful either as they're doing their best to skew things by using titles such as the one in this article. It's purposefully deceptive and a good example of clickbait. The Virtual Console is something Nintendo customers have spent money on already. So if these games are not made available through the same method, chances are we will have to pay for these games again if we want to play them. There's nothing deceptive about this article at all, a product that was available will no longer be available. Its run by fools. Oh, and charging to save games online as the only save backup option is clearly an illegal scam by Nintendo. The Mate 20 is a slick flagship phone that checks all the existing boxes and then some. They even showed side-by-side comparisons on stage to prove it.
