SLOWLY, but steadily adding value.
In Nintendo’s February 2022 Direct, we found out that yet another boon is being added to the rapidly-expanding number of benefits that come with Nintendo’s Switch Online Expansion Pack: The 48 DLC tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. We already have access to the catalogue of N64 games (which are being sllllooowwwly rolled out), Mega Drive games, and the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC, for a few extra bucks a month.
On Nintendo Life, we’ve talked about the NSO Expansion Pack a lot. We’ve looked at its relative value compared to Sony and Microsoft’s (very different) subscription services, said it’s great value for some people, despite the fact that it proved extremely controversial when it was revealed. When we asked for reader opinions, the polls came back pretty negative, and later on, we all pretty much universally agreed that the catalogue of games was expanding too slowly for the price of the subscription. And early results from a poll we ran today suggest that, which the upcoming Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC tracks aren’t nothing, there’s a sizeable number of players for whom the higher tier Expansion Pack isn’t sufficiently attractive. Yet.
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