Nintendo Switch Online N64 games are getting Rewind — but only on Switch 2

Original Switch owners are lone getting customizable controls.

Nintendo is adding a trio of caller features to the Switch Online versions of N64 games, but you’ll request a Switch 2 to get the afloat benefit. N64 titles connected the caller console volition enactment the Rewind diagnostic and CRT Filter, but the lone upgrade coming to the archetypal Switch is the enactment to customize controls.

The 3 caller features each get connected June 5th, the aforesaid time the Switch 2 launches. Buyers of the caller console volition person the enactment to rewind gameplay aft making a mistake oregon activate a CRT filter that adds a lined effect replicating the visuals of older TVs. Both of those features are already available for the Switch Online’s room of NES and SNES games.

Both the Switch and Switch 2 volition besides summation the enactment to presumption and afloat customize controls crossed N64 titles, but Nintendo hasn’t explained wherefore that’s the lone caller diagnostic coming to Nintendo’s older hardware. It seems improbable that adjacent the Switch’s comparatively basal hardware is incapable of powering a elemental CRT filter connected games that are astir 30 years old, making this look similar a ploy to get fans to bargain the caller $449.99 console.

The N64 room launched successful 2021, and the games are lone disposable arsenic portion of Nintendo’s premium Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription, which costs $49.99 per year, much than treble the regular Switch Online plan.