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burninmylight on 23 October 2021
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Jumpin said:
burninmylight said:

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.

Do you have any official statement of this, or are you just guessing based on the fact that no Square games have yet come out? If they see the value in getting Square games on their service, then they’ll get them. They got Square games on the classic mini after all, so it’s not out of the question at all that they’ll make future sales agreements with Nintendo.

Either way, for me to want to resubscribe, Nintendo is going to have to get some great premium games. Examples I can think of are Chrono Trigger, Terranigma, Skies of Arcadia, or Monolithsoft games and others on their service by the one year mark.

Of course I don't have an official statement, otherwise I'd provide it. But it's clear that I'm not "just guessing" either. It's not just Square either. What major Konami games have come out on NSO? You won't find a single Castlevania outside of Bloodlines from the upcoming Genesis expansion. Why? Because Konami would rather you buy the collections. Same thing with Capcom's Mega Man and Street Fighter 2. It threw us a bone with Ghost 'n Goblins even though GnG Resurrection is a thing, but I wouldn't call that a "major" IP.

To say that I'm just guessing is to say that someone is just guessing the sky is blue after taking a good, long look at it.