After the existence of a new tier for Nintendo Switch Online was revealed during the previous Nintendo Direct, new information regarding the service was announced today. Nintendo Switch Online's Expansion Pack, which includes Nintendo 64 and SEGA Genesis games, along with the newly-announced paid DLC for Animal Crossing New Horizons, will be included in the plan, which will cost players $49.99 for a year's worth of membership--almost on par with the cost of Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation Plus per year. That's also more than double the price compared to the original cost of NSO's base tier plan, which is currently $19.99. If you want a yearly family membership of the Expansion Pack, you can expect to pay $79.99. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack launches October 25th.

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[Guggimon]

I personally recommand the "EVERDRIVE-64 X7" for those who really want to play N64 games without any limitations and you don't have to wait till your favourite game is in the list. At least they didn't change the basic NSO price.

Better for them, otherwise i sold my switch

 

[Dax_Fame]

This is more trashy than the worst scenario I could even imagine. Their online service is so limited and crap ALL of these games should be included for the current cost.

And the Animal Crossing DLC? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! They release a half-baked product, abandon it completely and then ONLY after mass Exodus they promise new content... For $$$$$$$

That's really really shitty

 

[Guggimon]

Damn, I just thought it'd be an extra 5 or 10 dollars. I get that Sega has to get their cut from this, but damn, that's a ridiculous jump in price.

Hoped the same, now that i know.....

 

[Something whatever]

$50USD lmao go fuck yourself Nintendo

 

[Windaga]

Huh.

Well I mean, I have a full family plan across 7 other friends of mine, and if they each get access to the $24.99 DLC for Animal Crossing...

 

[emigre]

This is superb.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I personally recommand the "EVERDRIVE-64 X7" for those who really want to play N64 games without any limitations and you don't have to wait till your favourite game is in the list. At least they didn't change the basic NSO price.

This everdrive, and even the much cheaper chinese ones are amazing solutions, but the limitation of this route is the crap signal that the OG N64 outputs. Unmodded consoles looks muddy even with a good upscaler. It looks awful on CRTs either.

Virtual console on switch would be amazing, full ownership, that stuff, but this discussion sadly is dead and buried already.

 

[jt_1258]

I fell off the ac train awhile ago...I honestly could care less about the dlc besides it being the reason I have to waste even more money for something I don't want...

 

[Hayato213]

Lol crazy $79.99 for family pack, guess Im not buying then.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

So if the DLC is $24.99, after the first year it should be $25 for single membership & $55 for a family. Surely they are also going to offer the Online + Expansion Pack without the Animal Crossing DLC at launch?

 

[WiiHomebrew+Snes]

I could get all the latest first party games and even major third party ones, ON LAUNCH DATE, with Game Pass, for $10 more a year...

Where did you get $10 more a year from? The cheapest game pass plan is $120 a year whereas the most expensive switch online plan is $80 a year, so that’s at least $40 more a year. Not saying gamepass isn’t the better deal but still

 

[LeyendaV]

Eight people paying $10 a year each for the family plan sounds like a solid deal. Me alone paying $50 sounds like go f yourself.

 

[Deleted member 534570]

I don't understand why people are making a huge deal about this. Just emulate the damn games. Stop giving Nintendo your money for unoptimized games. In fact, most of these games have become well optimized thanks to modders and modhacks alike. Sheesh. Stop shilling Nintendo and their heinous cash-grab schemes...

 

[RHOPKINS13]

Way too overpriced, this is garbage. I have the family plan, $80 is way too much. I could see paying ~$50 for it, compared to the $35 I pay now. Definitely not paying over double just for some emulators and a DLC "rental."

 

[Chary]

Where did you get $10 more a year from? The cheapest game pass plan is $120 a year whereas the most expensive switch online plan is $80 a year, so that’s at least $40 more a year. Not saying gamepass isn’t the better deal but still

You can still convert Gold to Game Pass Ultimate 1:1. It's not exactly as advertised, but it's still very possible, and still just $60 per year if you're buying retail XBL cards.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Okay, so the animal crossing New Horizon Happy Home Designer (Game I don't own) is included with the expansion?

That's not "Download content" that's a "SUBSCRIPTION"
Also where is the option without that "DLC"
Unless you don't need the game to play it. That's a pretty ridiculous price. Would be more fun to buy a $70 game. Least get to keep it for life.

 

[osaka35]

Nope. just. nope. I'll probably buy the animal crossing dlc, but I sure as heck ain't renting it, and definitely not renting access to online emulators.

 

[peteruk]

I appreciate you can break the cost down to monthly, weekly, even daily if you so wish to make it feel more palatable but in my humble opinion this is really disappointing from Nintendo.

I was genuinely looking forward to signing up for a year, probably investing in that N64 controller as well but I just feel that this annual pricing is plain greedy.

No doubt I'll still do it, but they really are taking the piss out of us and they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

 

[The Catboy]

I wish we could go back to when Nintendo was heavily against this kind of crap

 

[Hayato213]

I wish we could go back to when Nintendo was heavily against this kind of crap

Lol spend that $50 dollars on a pi or something, atleast it will always be there.