We may receive new games in late March, based on scheduled maintenance for the Nintendo Switch Online service in the coming days
If the Twitter bot expressly designed to report the maintenance periods of the Big N got it right this time too, by the end of March we could see new games in the retro schedule of Nintendo Switch Online. The apps of NES e SNES they will in fact be put on the bench the night between Thursday and Friday. In Italian time, this translates into a forced break period between three and four in the morning. Often and willingly, the Kyoto giant prohibits access to retrogaming libraries for the hybrid console in view of adding games, and that is why the so-called shadow drop is now expected.
Nintendo Switch Online: Possibility of new NES and SNES games in late March
The last time the two apps available for subscribers to the basic Nintendo Switch Online service (NES and SNES) ended temporarily offline was for the addition of EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings at the end of the last phenomenal Direct, and not we doubt we can greet the month of March with such enthusiasm. Attentive fans are already linking other additions to the catalogs to their respective maintenance. For example, on January 20 the Nintendo 64 app (exclusive to add-on pack members) received Banjo-Kazooie following its downtime.
[Maintenance Scheduled]
Maintenance has been scheduled for “Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ – Nintendo Switch Online” on 31 Mar from 00:55 UTC to 02:00 UTC.#Maintenance #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/cNPzyBx9tq
— NinStatusBot (@NinStatusBot) March 30, 2022
The tweet above, which we alluded to in the opening, brings to mind the coincidences similar to this one. The other app exclusive to the premium service, the one for Sega Mega Drive, stopped last December 16. Upon reboot, players received ToeJam & Earl, Altered Beast, Dynamite Headdy, Sword of Vermillion, and Thunder Force II. In short, also with the first of April on the horizon there are all the prerequisites to expect some delight in the NES catalog and its counterpart for SNES. And at the risk of sounding capricious, it occurs to us to remark that it is time.
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