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burninmylight on 22 October 2021
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Jumpin said:

I don't expect Saturn or Dreamcast until the anniversary. Nintendo will need to secure some new stuff for the Premium online service right around the end of the initial service to get people to resubscribe. But, what I'd like to see are some more premium SNES games like Chrono Trigger and Terranigma come to the service. From Dreamcast, give me Skies of Arcadia. 
Monolithsoft can work out deals with Square and Namco to get Xenogears and Xenosaga on the service too. Maybe trickle those throughout the year to try and seal the deal with more customers. But what I'll really be looking for to get me to resubscribe is something big this time next year.

Chrono Trigger is definitely too big to come to the service. Squeenix would at the very least prefer to sell it individually as a standalone port, if not remake/remaster it. Third party publishers, and even Nintendo, have realized that it's more profitable to remake/release certain older games and have you pay more for them individually instead of dumping them on a subscription service.

Look at what SE did with the SaGa series:

  • The first three games in the series were released as COLLECTION OF SaGa FINAL FANTASY LEGEND (to be fair, GB games aren't available on the NSO service as of now)
  • It put Romancing SaGa 2 and RS3 on the Wii and Wii U virtual consoles in Japan, but they never touched the NSO service; instead they were released as their own standalone games that you can buy from the eShop.
  • SaGa Frontier was a PlayStation game with a remastered port on modern systems

And there's also the standalone releases of the Dragon Quest games on NES that are not on the NSO in any region.

The things we're going to see coming to NSO are the games that publishers don't see an opportunity to port over as a remaster, remake or put in a compilation in the foreseeable future.