Talk:List of Nintendo Switch Online games

Lists Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Video games: Nintendo Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Video games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of video games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Video gamesWikipedia:WikiProject Video gamesTemplate:WikiProject Video gamesvideo game articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article is supported by the Nintendo task force.

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

Cake Mania (series) (0 participants)
Omocat (4 participants)
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2: Myths and Mortals (9 participants)
SpongeBob SquarePants (disambiguation) (9 participants)
Stick Soldiers (2 participants)
Rick Jay Glen (4 participants; relisted)
Do You Like Horny Bunnies? (16 participants; relisted)
Atlus USA (15 participants; relisted)

Merge discussions

Other discussions

No major discussions

Non-emulated[edit]

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)[reply]

GameCube[edit]

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:

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Totals[edit]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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

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. ([1] [2] [3]). Hell, Nintendo often doesn't even mention them in their own updates ([4]). 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]