Developer | Nintendo |
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Type | Online service |
Launch date | September 18, 2018 |
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Status | Online |
Members | 34 million (as of September 2024) |
Website | www |
Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) is an online subscription service for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The service is Nintendo's third-generation online service after Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and Nintendo Network. Following an interim period which began with the launch of the Nintendo Switch where Nintendo offered online multiplayer free of charge and the launch of the Nintendo Switch Online Smartphone App on July 21, 2017, the subscription service officially launched on September 18, 2018. An expanded tier of the service, Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, was released on October 25, 2021.
Nintendo Switch Online features include online multiplayer, cloud saving, voice chat via a smartphone app, access to special profile pictures, as well as other promotions and offers. Also included is access to a library of Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Game Boy (GB), and Game Boy Color (GBC)[1][2][3][4][5] games. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack includes access to Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy Advance games and access to DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 2.
Nintendo has expanded its Nintendo Switch Online catalogue with two classic Game Boy Colour Zelda games.
Players can get their hands on the Pokémon Trading Card video game on Nintendo Switch right now. Originally released for the Game Boy Color in 1998 (2000 in US and Europe), Pokémon Trading Card Game is a video game that enables players to play a virtual version of the tabletop trading card game.