Is N64 next for Nintendo's Switch Online service?

(Pocket-lint) - After the quality of Game Boy games perchance coming to Nintendo Switch, the aforesaid tipster has revealed that classical N64 titles could soon beryllium added too.

However, you mightiness person to wage much for your Nintendo Switch Onine subscription arsenic the "insider" believes they volition travel astatine a premium.

Switch Online rank is simply a request for playing online multiplayer connected the bulk of Switch games. It besides provides entree to a increasing room of classical Nintendo games moving done emulation.

At present, this covers NES and SNES games, but a study astatine the opening of September suggested that Game Boy and Game Boy Color games could soon follow. The aforesaid study said that emulation for a 4th retro console was recovered successful a datamine of the service.

Tipster NateDrake claims that volition beryllium N64 (which makes a batch of consciousness really). He besides proposes successful the latest occurrence of his podcast that it could beryllium portion of an further subscription tier: "What I'm going to propose, is that erstwhile Nintendo 64 does travel to Nintendo Switch Online it is going to travel with a higher-priced tier - a premium mentation of Nintendo Switch Online, if you will," helium said (as reported by NintendoLife).

"I don't deliberation they would effort to treble the terms of it... I'd travel successful astatine $30 a year, $35 would beryllium the ceiling, immoderate much than that I deliberation Nintendo would beryllium truly pushing things."

Nintendo Switch Online presently costs £17.99 for 12-months successful the UK, $19.99 successful the States.

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There is nary authoritative confirmation of neither Game Boy nor N64 games coming to the work yet.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 16 September 2021.