Free Games For Nintendo Switch Online Subscribers: Here's How It Works

@DEATHWlSH: you're right, but only half right.. you do get seats with it, you do get monthly freebies with PS+ and Xbox Live, and you may get monthly freebies in the near future with Nintendo Online as well. but on top of that, you'll get free retro games (all you can play) without any extra fees.. unlike PSNow, and adding gas in your car!

Why am I explaining this again?? I'm done!

I'm gonna enjoy my $20 subscription with my free games... Adios! :-)

@NeonicTrash: how much is XBOX Gold yearly fee again? and I'm not trying to defend Nintendo. I know they are stingy. I was simply stating a fact that $20/year is a great price to play games online but to add freebies (no matter what era they came from) is a plus. And on top of that, no one is certain other than the big N what they will bring out next with that subscription.. XBOX and PS have they're free monthly releases, maybe Nintendo will do the same for N64 and Gamecube games.. They did mentioned that the switch will support them.

I was only trying to say that $20 a year for online gaming and getting a catalog of free nostalgic games (especially for veteran gamers as myself) if pretty sweet!! And as for your comment on "free online since the 90's" those games were never free. Nintendo never released their games for free anywhere online.

@atherworld: They originally wanted to kick you in the balls, now they just slap you in the face. Why aren't you excited about the free slap!?

Also you'd have to be crazy to pay $5 for these games on VC. Also, if I bought 4 VC games, that's $20. I own them forever. I can play them whenever. With this you have to continue paying $20 each year FOREVER or those games disappear into the ether. It's not comparable at all.

@jecht187: So what you're saying is it's not free at all. Weird, why did you say above they were free? Also why did you start babbling about PSNow which has nothing to do with the fact that these games aren't free?

@jecht187: You can't be that dumb. You place lots of weight on your assumptions & keep bringing up the straw man of psnow. That was never even mistakenly part of the service that ps+ offers. Ps+ & xbl gives new games as part of their services, & they don't require that you use a smartphone, which is a $300 pricetag for one capable of running nintendos application while still being able to message, talk, text. Browse web, etc that it's meant for. People are having to give up the normal use of their device, as maybe the wife normally uses the phone while the husband games, but not with Nintendo's service. Not taking up my smartphone is well worth the extra $40 a month. FYI, I pay about $35 a year for ps+ & xbl by checking cheapassgamer.com when I need them. Same with currency cards, $35-40 For $50 cards, while Nintendo eshop is almost always full price. If i had your gall, I'd assume the online service will be the same with no deals, so the difference in cost would actually make Nintendo service way overpriced. I couldn't care less about old.games. I played them all when they came out. I have paid Nintendo 2 to 3 times for some of them on VC after buying them originally for insane amounts, so Nintendo has been plenty paid for someone to enjoy them, as I didn't touch 3/4 of them after buying. I bought a new console for new games, but that seems too complicated a concept for Nintendo to grasp.

All these online games you are saying you will be paying to play online are a myth. Nintendo is playing catch up, only just now learning things that Sony & MS have forgotten because it's such old & irrelevant lessons. Xbl was ahead of its time in 2002, so they could charge for their service in good faith. Sony didn't charge on ps2, ps3. Nintendo without a smartphone app does not come close to what MS offered for a fee, or what sony offered for free (see, that's the meaning of free), yet they are arrogant enough to charge a fee for their first full throated attempt at it's inception. Offering a BONUS access to old games that many won't touch, is only because they have milked those games dry. They will not give access to anything they think people like you would pay them a dime for. See how hollow and meaningless everything I just said after the break is to You? Because it lacks factual basis, & is full of conjecture & opinion, right? That's exactly what many get from you throwing around, "they may offer monthly games on top of access to all the V.C. games, & it may even be GameCube & newer games." That has no basis in fact, and desrves no more faith from the average gamer than my rant. You may mean well, but you honestly can't believe those things, as you have no way of knowing that they have even crossed the big dogs' minds at Nintendo.

@jecht187: If that's how you read my comment then I believe you need to get yourself some glasses.