GameCube games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online

Bundled successful the occurrence hose of quality regarding the Switch 2 Direct is 1 update definite to delight Nintendo Switch Online subscribers: GameCube games are yet arriving connected the service.

A fig of GameCube games volition motorboat connected the subscription service, including The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Soul Calibur 2, F-Zero GX. Nintendo says they volition person “clearer representation quality” and higher solution than the archetypal releases.

Nintendo besides promised games similar Super Mario Sunshine, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Super Mario Strikers, Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure, Luigi’s Mansion, and Pokémon Colosseum volition beryllium disposable connected the service.

The GameCube crippled room volition motorboat connected the aforesaid time arsenic the Switch 2, June 5th, and volition beryllium disposable arsenic portion of the Nintendo Switch Online: Expansion Pack.

Since its launch successful 2018, Nintendo’s dilatory built up its online subscription work by offering games from console generations past, alongside different neat features. In summation to enabling unreality saves and online play, the basal work offers players entree to games from the NES, SNES, and Game Boy libraries, on with the precocious added Nintendo Music app. The much costly Expansion Pack subscription adds games from the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, and Sega Genesis, positive DLC from Mario Kart 8, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon 3.

Before this addition, GameCube games weren’t wholly absent from the Switch. Nintendo has remastered oregon ported a fistful of games to the strategy implicit the years, including Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Mario Sunshine (before yanking the postulation that contained Sunshine from stores).

Last year, Nintendo conducted a secretive online playtest that was initially thought to beryllium for GameCube games with online multiplayer features. That trial was really for an MMO, but astatine slightest Nintendo was a small precocious successful adding GameCube games, alternatively than ne'er doing it astatine all.