Video: Nintendo Treehouse Plays Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Oh yeah, I forgot I preordered the deluxe of this.

Still think they should include the full games, ain't nobody speedrunning 20 second parts of games. Heck I'd pay $60 for a physical Switch cart with every first party NES game.

@IceClimbersMain Literally all of them come with Nintendo Switch Online.

@nomadforlove

(question: how)

@Mario500

(question: what)

@CazSonOfCaz

(question: when)

I will give the summary of the two opinions we will ever read on this game so we can save some time.

1) This looks great. Day 1 pre-ordered. I love speedruns!!

2) For the price they are asking, I wish they came with the full games instead.

It doesn’t come with the full version of the games..? Pass.

Many doubted it, but…. Kid Icarus is back!

I don't understand how people are expecting this to include full versions of the NES games.

1. Nintendo never said the full games would be part of the “Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition”.

2. Nintendo World Championships (1990, 2015 and 2017) was never about playing the full versions of the games.

3. The full games are part of Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) which is a subscription service. Nintendo want people to subscribe to NSO.

4. Nintendo has never really been that into doing retro port collections, like Sega and many other publishers are doing.
Nintendo has sold retro games in physical and download form, but mainly one by one, and they pretty much stopped after the Wii U and 3DS.
There are a few exceptions, Nintendo has released a few collections, but they are mainly just a few games, by series and usually have updated versions of the games.

@nomadforlove yeah and if I stop paying the $20 a year (or I go offline for longer than a week, which happens often with a portable device) then I can't play them. I want to own my games.

This still looks like a neat game to learn speedrunning tricks for these specific games and to maybe get into speedrunning other classic games.

However, it's not really for me. I'll play the full titles at my own pace.

That was worth watching for the Mario speedrun race. I'm actually looking forward to my preorder now.

@Lofoten It's about value for money. I don't expect much from Nintendo, and I don't like to pay for a subscription service in perpetuity to access these games. So the value of this would be better if it was an offline, one-time-purchase access to the games. I don't think that's a lot to ask given how many times they've nickel and dimed me for them already.

I appreciate everyone's position and circumstances are different. For me, the NSO service is a better deal than owning the games. I already own most people f the retro games I want on the original hardware I purchased in the 90s (N64, SNES) and I have a NES minim frankly, the last thing I want is to have to purchase these games on the Switch, and then again on the Switch 2. I've already tried that with my 3DS and Wii.

I would never have purchased the number of games that I now have access to via NSO, so this is the right solution for me. For the retro games I do own (largely cart only, no box or instructions to manage costs), I have a huge backlog that realistically I am going to struggle to make a reasonable headway into until my children are grown and left home.

As I said at the start of this post, I do appreciate that the circumstances we approach "what is best for me" will be individual to us all.

Needless to say I have pre-ordered this bad boy and remain super excited.