According to an insider, the price of the subscription expansion pack a Nintendo Switch Online it would be due to the costs supported by Nintendo for the licensing of Sega games. To say it was the insider Emily Rogers, usually trusted on the things of Nintendo, assisted by Nintendo World Report, who confirmed his statements.
Sega was not a huge fan of the Wii Virtual Console due to poor sales, poor marketing by Nintendo and other problems that plagued the platform, so much so that it did not support the Wii U Virtual Console in any way. pay of remarkable figures to convince her to grant titles from the Mega Drive library.
But the problem wouldn’t be just Sega. Other licenses would also have been very expensive, such as Banjo-Kazooie for Nintendo 64, in the hands of Rare, then Microsoft. In short, behind the increased price there would be a lot of work to grab the licenses of the games to be offered to users. Since these are very old titles, this gives a little to think about.
Be that as it may, the Nintendo Switch Online expansion pack will also offer more, such as the first paid DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.