Talk:Nintendo Classics

Non-emulated

Is there a particular reason games like Tetris 99 and Super Mario 35 aren't listed here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshuaJSlone (talk • contribs) 17:55, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

GameCube

I typed "gamecube nintendo switch online" on Google Webs. I read "Nintendo Gamecube Online" on Fantendo Fandom. Link to https://fantendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Gamecube_Online . The Nintendo GameCube Online will be released on December 2, 2022. But not announcement yet. The Comic Book website is false.

Launch Titles on GameCube:

• Super Mario Sunshine
• Resident Evil 4
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Mario Kart: Double Dash
• Luigi's Mansion
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Kirby Air Ride
• Pikmin
• Pikmin 2
• Super Mario Strikers
• Go! Go! Hypergrind
• Chibi-Robo!
• Taz: Wanted
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
• Viewtiful Joe
• Pac-Man World 2
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Nintendo Puzzle Collection
• Sonic Heroes
• Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
• Super Monkey Ball
• Super Monkey Ball 2

Nintendo 64 Mario Party will be released in October 2022. Mario Party 2 will be released in November 2022. Pilotwings 64 will be released in December 2022.

Rossdegenstein (talk) 22:38, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Fantendo is a wiki for ideas people have or want to see, not real things. Someone just made all of that up. Besides, fan wikis are not an acceptable source on Wikipedia anyway. -- 68.84.184.241 (talk) 23:33, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Totals

It's pretty weird to me that there isn't a separate total for NES and SNES games that cuts out SP versions, honestly. MrGuyWasTaken (talk) 23:40, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Why? Sergecross73 msg me 00:10, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

It kinda just feels misleading and/or inconvenient. Like, I don't care about the SP versions when I wanna know how many games are on the service MrGuyWasTaken (talk) 01:16, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

I'm not following. You haven't given a reason beyond your unexplained personal preference. Sergecross73 msg me 02:14, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

the "SP versions" on the Nintendo Switch Online service amount to nothing more than existing games on the service. They're duplicates with the only main difference being that they're pre-made "suspend points" but are otherwise unmodified from the already existing games added to the service. They should be separated from the main game total because of this, as it's not a unique game addition to the online service. Bro3256 (talk) 09:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

But why is "unique game additions" what we're tracking here? Sergecross73 msg me 12:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Considering the SP versions are just a save state and are fully unchanged in content from their counterparts, I think there's a reasonable argument to be made for counting them differently. Like, if I own a Nintendo 64 and two Super Mario 64 cartridges, does that mean I own one game or two? The answer is going to differ based on different people's interpretation of the question. Secondary sources also tend to treat the SP versions differently from fully new games added, or sometimes don't even mention them at all in news stories about new updates. ( ). Hell, Nintendo often doesn't even mention them in their own updates (). Don't get me wrong, we should absolutely track them, but I don't hate the idea of tallying them separately. We could either phrase them as part of the main totals (NES is 100 games including 20 SP; SNES is 78 games including 7 SP), or as separate numbers (NES is 80 games + 20 SP variations; SNES is 71 games + 7 SP variations); if we did the latter, we could also make the totals counts into cells at the bottom of the tables (80 (+20 SP); 71 (+7 SP)) instead of part of the prose, similar to the counts on List of Super Smash Bros. series characters. Whatever the case, I don't want to shut the idea down just yet. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 13:58, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for actually giving an explanation and rationale. I'm indifferent, I was just trying to get some explanations from these prior editors, who didnt really give a reason. Sergecross73 msg me 14:57, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Happy to assist. In the absence of any real opposition, I'm going to update the counts on the article accordingly; we can always revert later if consensus decides against it. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 15:25, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

woahhhh dude thanks for that. i didn't know how to articulate myself, but there you went and did it for me lol MrGuyWasTaken (talk) 03:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

KR region is lumped incorrectly

KR, which is take to be Korea, is lumped with PAL and NA, but it does not have all the same titles available as the titles listed available here.

Korea Nintendo website for NSO expansion pack games 125.136.143.212 (talk) 09:27, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Good point. Turns out the lumping was originally based on an unreliable site anyway, so I've cut it from the page entirely. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 14:20, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Nintendo officially rebrands classic games offered via the Nintendo Switch Online service as "Nintendo Classics"

Source. "The Nintendo Switch Online library of classic games—now renamed as Nintendo Classics**—is expanding to include a collection of titles from Nintendo GameCube™!"
Should this list be renamed as a result of the rebrand? Maybe to something like "List of Nintendo Classics games"? Bro3256 (talk) 16:15, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

It might make sense to rename it to just "Nintendo Classics". We'll also need to get a bot to rename the NSO games category and move everything in it. (Also, can we get some secondary sourcing on this so we don't have to rely solely on a primary source to acknowledge the name change?) -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 16:21, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

A proposal has been started regarding the moving of the associated category. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 18:07, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

GameCube abbreviation

the abbreviation Nintendo uses everywhere for the GameCube if GCN. It's a weird abbreviation that I personally do not agree with, but I prefer consistency over aesthetics, so I think it would be better to make the abbreviation in the opening paragraph GCN instead of GC, unless Nintendo themselves stated otherwise RubyDupy (talk) 20:26, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

For clarity, it's NGC or GC in Japan, and GCN in North America and Europe. I'm find with changing it as long as it's not going to result in a long and unnecessary edit war. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 20:29, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

I haven't seen people abbreviate GameCube as "GCN" since the 2000s. Shouldn't it only be "GC"? Also, they're "only" available for the Nintendo Switch 2, yet the article doesn't specifically say that.

2600:1008:B212:53BE:680D:55C2:F96D:788A (talk) 02:38, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

See the above discussion. GCN is used elsewhere on Wikipedia, so we use it here for consistency. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 02:59, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

This info needs to be said about GameCube being added to the service

It should be stated that GameCube is the first legacy console to be added that was never added to the Virtual Console on the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U. This keeps getting removed, yet the info about some games never being part of the Virtual Console is allowed to stay? 2600:1008:B212:53BE:680D:55C2:F96D:788A (talk) 04:44, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Because the other info is sourced. As I keep telling you, you need a source to support any new statements. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 04:56, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Metroid Prime 2 and Pikmin 2 being added in the future?

Walmart has leaked that Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Pikmin 2 will be coming in the future (source). Should this be added? Or should it wait until these are officially revealed by Nintendo? --~2026-59943-8 (talk) 20:22, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

It's been cited in multiple reliable sources, and the render posted to Walmart is almost certainly official, so it's probably okay to add. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 20:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I mean, it's fine to mention it as a leak somewhere, but it shouldn't be listed as some sort of confirmed future release. Sergecross73 msg me 22:46, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

https://www.ign.com/articles/walmart-looks-to-have-leaked-two-nintendo-switch-online-gamecube-classics-and-some-fans-think-its-now-over-for-a-metroid-prime-2-remake - Exactly why this never should have been added. I would have reverted immediately had I noticed it was added. "Leaks" should never be listed as fact. Sergecross73 msg me 21:08, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Localization first-timers

Given how some of those games are often touted as being available outside of Japan for the first time, shouldn't we put a note that they are were previously only available in japan or US/EU? Especially when it comes to Virtual Boy titles? Kulik5120 (talk) 23:11, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Kind of feels more like something that should be mentioned at the respective game article (with a reliable source that verifies it.) Sergecross73 msg me 00:43, 22 February 2026 (UTC)