I’ve been lightly eyeing it for a few months now since Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Advance games are available through the expansion, but wanted to see if people here have the expansion and like it.
I’m playing through Ocarina of Time for the umpteenth time, Majora’s Mask, Minish Cap, and Metroid Fusion. I feel like it’s worth it. We have a family plan and my family all play Animal Crossing, so they enjoy the DLC that comes with the Expansion Pass.
It really does boil down to whether or not you care about the features it provides. If you have an easier way to emulate the N64, Genesis or GBA ( or have the original hardware) I wouldn’t bother. The DLC perk isn’t worth it on its own, as it’s still cheaper to just buy the DLC straight out. The caveat being for yourself. If you’re using a family plan, and play all of the games with the DLC, it can definitely be more affordable than buying all of the DLC 4 times.
If you do plan on getting it, I would recommend you buy a spot in a family membership through a trusted eBay seller rather than buy an individual membership directly from Nintendo. This is how I did it, and I was able save quite a bit of money doing so.
We just got a switch and started out only with the Online Sub + Expansion and really like it. Classic games are really fun. Especially SNES games. N64 games feel a bit rough to play given it was the early days of 3D nintendo. My only other complaint is the bunch-of-games-in-one games (like a SNES Kirby collection), it’s not very intuitive how to switch between games.
But goodness, Super Mario World & Donkey Kong Country, Yoshii, etc. Great stuff!
I have a ridiculous fully-scraped fairly complete emulation set-up on my Steam Deck plugged in right next to my NS so it’s really hard for me to justify the expansion pack when it actually results in a reduction of features and options for the games I’d be playing.
If it had a useful feature in it like easily hosting your screenshots/videos on a webpage for sharing/download I’d pull the trigger in a second because I’m sick as hell of the smartphone copy thing. I just got a Mirabox capture device so I can use OBS on my PC to record stuff instead of the build in NS system in an attempt to circumvent this hassle…
Yeah I can see the expansion not being worth it especially if you have that setup. Any Nintendo reps in here? Some potential service improvement ideas right here. ✨
