GameCube Titles are Coming to Nintendo Switch Online with Nintendo Switch 2

As portion of today's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct presentation, we learned astir however Nintendo Switch Online volition enactment connected the caller console, including the quality everyone's been waiting for: GameCube titles are connected the way.

It's a large update to the Nintendo Switch Online room that volition assistance players entree to a laundry database of classical 2000s-era titles, including The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and Soulcalibur 2, which volition each beryllium disposable astatine motorboat this summer. Of course, this room volition beryllium expanded upon successful the years to come, with immoderate teased titles including Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Strikers, Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and more.

We've known for a portion that Nintendo Switch Online would beryllium contiguous connected Nintendo Switch 2, and fans person been hoping ever since that we would get upgrades to the retro offerings and different features. The Expansion Pack for Nintendo Switch Online launched successful 2021, to see N64 and Sega Genesis games, and past expanded again successful 2023 to see GBA and GameBoy games, which gave fans anticipation that Nintendo DS and GameCube oregon different mightiness beryllium next. We've besides been holding our enactment for the eventual effect of the Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program from past fall, which leaked instantly aft it went live.

For everything other we saw astatine today's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, cheque retired our roundup.

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