Up until now Nintendo has been keeping us in the dark about which NES games would launch for the Switch's NES app in 2019, after what seemed like a consistent schedule for 2018. But they have just dropped the ball by announcing just 2 more games that will be added to the service for January, these being Blaster Master and Zelda II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJb8KSG1q74&t=0s

Fans are rightfully upset that not only are the number of games to expect each month has been halved only several months in, but this month's games are a snooze fest. Personally, I have never heard of Blaster Master, and have no interest in Zelda II since it is widely considered to be the worst Zelda game. If anything this just reinforces the mentality that Nintendo is putting in the bare minimum effort to improve the quality of their service. At least when the service began there was hope for it to get better, but it seems Nintendo is going in the wrong direction. 

Seriously, Nintendo?
What about Mario 2 USA & Lost Levels?
Tetris?
Kirby's Adventure?
The original Kid Icarus?
Why don't you call Capcom, Konami, and Square Enix to get the Mega Man games? Castlevania? The OG Final Fantasies?

Or if you REALLY wanted to sell this Online service, why don't you bring out the Super Nintendo library? You're discontinuing the classic consoles anyways. Might as well put all those games (and some more) onto the online service. (And also hold up a giant middle finger with the words "Fuck You!" painted down the finger to scalpers in the process.)

This service has so much potential, but you guys constantly keep dropping the ball and it's so damn frustrating!

Can't be disappointed if you've never bothered with the offerings in the first place.

Don't know of this Blaster Master game but Blaster Master Zero is awesome! I highly recommend it!

Keep in mind this is a service which costs €1.60 per month, exactly how many SNES classic titles were you guys thinking they would bring each month? At 80c per nes title on top of online play in some amazing games I would wager people who use this service aren't feeling too ripped off by it.

It costs in line with a KFC visit for a years sub lol.

Those virtual old games are pointless anyway.

I mean we all played them on a NES, Emulators, Wii, Wii U, Nest Mini (hack it and put all the games on).

Isn't the $20 a year meant to improve online gaming experience to ensure less lag? I don't know i don't bother with online these days lol.

Two games for January? ..... Gosh, that´s really dissapointing. And they took very long to update it, compared to what they did last year.

I just hope that they´re working on something extra to give more value to the service, after so much deserved backlash.

It feel even worse for consumers, knowing that they really don´t need to do much. If there were also a good amount of SNES and N64 games being released regularly, people would not feel dissapointed.

Shitty, I agree.

But Japan does get the regular 3 games.

https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/a55835d3-12db-11e9-b104-0a6d14145cb1.html

We get Joy Mech Fight, a Japan-only title.

Where are the discounts, Nintendo? NES games only are not an attractive prospect for anyone at this point, there've been hundreds of different ways to play them at this point. Hell, more free games like the Twilight Princess Picross game would be neat.

Nintendo isn't allowed to rerelease both NES and the original Gameboy Tetris due to licensing issues, and in fact the Tetris company swore themselves never to allow them to be released again (because Nintendo got their licence from another party, so they didn't earn squat over them), so don't expect it to ever show up despite how influential it was.

I can't agree the notion that those two games are lame (especially not Zelda II, my favorite Zelda btw), but I agree however that reducing to just two games is really shitty. I do understand that they need to strech out the releases between the months but why are there no higher profile third party games? I can understand for Megaman (Capcom certainly prefers to sell their game compilations instead by now) and some other potential games which just got rereleased in compilations, but that's about it. Get more games to the subscription!

A fear of mine is that witch the success of those retro consoles the IP holders (aka most big publishers) have jacked up the prices for those old games, especially the more known IP, to a point where they are not commercially viable anymore. I hope this isn't true and it's just Nintendo pulling a bad move, but considering the greediness of today's publishers it's not something I'd rule out either.

I hope Nintendo also open talks with Sega to get Master System and Megadrive games into the service at a later date.

That's not how Nintendo's CFO looks at it.