During the last Direct, Nintendo has finally confirmed what many were already anticipating based on different observations: The games of the mythical Nintenso 64 arrive on Nintendo Switch Online this October and they do not do it alone. They are accompanied by those of the Sega Genesis.
What’s more, the N64 games will have support for up to four players online. Both collections arrive in a new expansion pack for the Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) service called precisely the Exp ansion Pack.
The online service of the Switch is a subscription service (cheaper than those of PS5 or Xbox) that allows online multiplayer with voice chat. It also lets you save games in the Nintendo cloud and has its own catalog of classic NES and SNES games that can be played thanks to a virtual console. That library is the one that will be updated shortly with the N64 and Genesis games, something that will undoubtedly be welcomed by those who were children in the 90s.
The Expansion Pack will be a new subscription package that current customers can take advantage of by updating their own plans. Nintendo has not yet reported when the exact date will be released, nor its price. What it has shown is the list of games that will reach the online service, and includes classics such as Contra Hard Corps , The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Sonic 2, or Super Mario 64. The complete list, in these two screenshots of screen.
Nintendo has also mentioned that more games are coming in the future, including The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask , F-Zero X , Mario Golf , Pok é mon Snap , Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards , Paper Mario , and Banjo-Kazooie .
The company also confirmed the arrival of Bluetooth wireless controllers for both the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Genesis. Both will cost $ 50, but the release date has not been announced either.
Rumors about these new controls began to circulate at the beginning of this month and were exacerbated with a patent filed with the FCC that was also seized. In addition to being the birthplace of classics like Super Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time, the N64 became popular for its strange three-handle controller, which was also the first of its time to feature an analog joystick. This is not the first time that Nintendo has established an emulator for the N64. It already did so on the Wii, which ended its journey with 21 classic console games.