Rumor: Nintendo will soon bring Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to Switch – Gaming – News

If it is added in the Nintendo Online like the NES and the SNES games then you don’t have to pay extra. It’s kind of a basic Xbox game pass with literally games that are 20+ years old and the choice is also very limited (so far 58 NES on 49 SNES games). The games to which Nintendo itself has the rights will not be difficult, only they do not put all of them in it. Every so often (not monthly unfortunately) there are 1 or 2-4 new games. So by the time the Switch EOL comes out you still won’t have the entire library of NES or SNES.

They are afraid that people will mainly play the old (S)NES games and not buy ‘new’ Switch games as soon as they put all (S)NES games in the library.

For example, if I see that Earthbound is still not available, then I’m afraid that when the Gameboy (Colour) comes they won’t add Pokémon (GB&GBC versions) as some here claim or wishful think.

Those are just the cash grabs you probably mean. But at the moment there is no legal alternative to play these (old) games on the Switch. Knowing Nintendo, they will keep it that way for the foreseeable future so that it doesn’t cannibalize the sale of new games.

I don’t agree with their business practices either, but it’s a business model they have and one that’s too successful for my taste. It’s not consumer friendly unfortunately.

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