RUMOR: Nintendo originally planned to bring Virtual Console to Switch with new features – GoNintendo
What might have been…It’s been years now since the heyday of Nintendo’s Virtual Console program, which allowed gamers to buy individual retro titles on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. It’s been replaced on the Switch by Nintendo Switch Online, which offers a selection of titles that are only available for a yearly subscription fee. According to some newly discovered leaks, it sounds like Nintendo once had different plans for the Switch.This news comes from some leaked e-mails from the gaming emulation company iQue, and was shared by luigiblood via Yakumono’s Blog. According to the leaks, there was originally some software codenamed ‘Clipper’ which was a planned Virtual Console for Switch. This would have worked much like the previous Virtual Console iterations, with a few key differences:Of course, Nintendo ended up going a different direction with the Switch. We’ll see if they continue with the same methods for their next console.Click here to read more insight into the behind the scenes workings of the Switch Virtual Console plans, plus more info gleaned from these leaked e-mails.They probably should have. The NSO service is a joke. Something like 20% of all switch owners even have it lol @thawhole9You can try to paint it as a failure, but if every current NSO subscriber pays $20 a year, then that’s $680,000,000 a year for Nintendo.Even if EVERY SINGLE subscriber were on a family plan and shared their other 7 slots with other individual unique users, Nintendo would still be bringing in $148,000,000 a year. And that’s an unrealistic absolutely lowest estimate for the service.So…pretty successful for being a ‘joke.’@the_crimson_lureCrazy, isn’t it? You can see why companies are pushing subscription models. It’s like taxes.Far be it from them to give us a means to carry over the support we’ve given them, when they can charge us every month for a service they can revoke at will.
