Say goodbye to a “regular schedule” of emulated classics on Switch

Enlarge / We'll no longer be seeing regular monthly additions to this selection of SNES classics playable on the Switch, nor their NES counterparts.

Fans of classic Nintendo re-releases got some good news this week, as Nintendo finally released emulated versions of 20 Super NES games as part of its $20-per-year Switch Online service. But the company tempered that announcement with some less visible bad news: further releases in that collection will no longer come on their usual monthly schedule.

Since launching with 20 NES titles last September, the Switch's collection of playable classics has expanded by two or three games each month, to the point where it now includes 46 distinct NES titles. But yesterday, a blog post on Nintendo's Japanese site (machine translation) indicated that those releases would be coming "irregularly" from now on.

In a statement to Business Insider, a Nintendo representative confirmed that "More NES games will be added in the future, but those releases will not adhere to a regular schedule."

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