The launch of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass provides gamers with access to a small collection of SEGA games and a few N64 classics, along with an Animal Crossing expansion. The price of the original Nintendo Online service has been increased by 2.5x. Despite having a back catalogue unlike any other in the business.

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Nintendo has not yet collected it into one ongoing subscription service, That being said, they have started with NES and some SNES games on Nintendo Switch Online. The ultimate Virtual Console system that travels with you and is not broken into ridiculous chunks is what Nintendo fans desire.

An ongoing subscription service, which would include NES, SBES, Game Boy, N64, GameCube, GBA, DS, and the 3DS, would allow players to download whichever classics they want to play on any new hardware Nintendo puts out. This would be a lifetime account, where the subscription carries over, and a way to offer some sort of legal alternative to the thousands of emulators that have put these games online for years already anyway.

This service would make more money than mini consoles, individual VC sales, Expansion Pass upgrades, and whatever other options currently exist. A streamlined version of all Nintendo’s classics would be a must-have for millions of players and would be a consistent revenue stream for Nintendo as long as it was kept viable across hardware. They could keep adding to it to increase its value, and while it may not directly compete with Game Pass, that’s fine. It essentially means they have that entire market to themselves.