Honest question.
Are there any more advertised NSO games that haven't been added aside from
ahem Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru ?
Now that we have the F-Zero GBA game, I can't think of a single game that has been advertised and not released. There's still lots of missing GBA and GB/GBC games. The Genesis app is updated SUUUUUPER slowly and is still missing a ton. The N64 app has most of the first party games and is really only missing some Rare games like DK64, Banjo Tooie and Diddy Kong Racing.
The SNES and NES apps seem largely complete. They have virtually all of the first party games and while there are some strange omissions (Mach Rider, where are you?), most everything is there.
What do you think is next for the NSO apps? While the price tag was awful on release, nowadays I think the catalogue of games is impressive enough to be worth the price. I really hope they keep the apps and all the games on it on the next console. The apps seem like the best way to not have to wait to play the same old games AGAIN.
The catalogue has gotten better, but I guess one of the issues I have that's not entirely their fault is the lack of some notable 3rd Party games. It's not entirely their fault because it's basically asking other companies to allow players to play some of their games for free and obviously, they would want to sell them for something like a collection rather than do that.
But that said, it still relies on Nintendo paying a license to those companies to release those games on their catalogue which depends on whether Nintendo wants to go through the trouble to license the game for their catalogue and depending on the company and game, could be either easy or hard.
But I guess part of what frustrates me is that some of them are probably not even planned for a re-release on modern systems and all that's keeping them from going on the NSO whether Nintendo wants to bother to get them or the other company is being stingy because of the "free" nature of the NSO. Which means the possibility of never seeing those games re-released not so much because they are hard to emulate, but because of not having a price tag, which sucks.
It doesn't help that I feel there's not much of an attempt to try and take advantage of the advertisement side of the NSO. Like yes, the Megaman Legacy Collection is on the Switch, so it makes sense on why Capcom wouldn't want to put the NES Megaman games on the NSO. But somebody who hasn't played any of the games or series might not get it even if it was on a sale since they don't know whether they'll like it or hate it to begin with and there's no demo to try. So Capcom could put one of the Megaman NES games on the NSO as a demo and advertisement for the collection, like Megaman 2, that can give more incentive for someone to buy the collection, whether full price or a sale, if they play and like the game.
I guess that's really my main complaint is the lack of 3rd Party titles, which I get why Nintendo would have an issue with getting them since it requires working it out with another company. And the company could be the one giving the issues compared to Nintendo not wanting to pay for the license.
That said, not all of them have been hard to deal with. I mentioned Capcom earlier for their reluctance on the NES Megaman games, but Capcom has probably been the most supportive company with the NSO, between three Ghost'n Goblins games, Gargoyle's Quest and Demon Crest, Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Megaman Wily Wars, Strider, Street Fighter II Championship Edition and technically Zelda Minish Cap and the Zelda Oracle games.
Anyway, for what the NSO service has given us, it has gotten much better than it had at the start and I hope we get some more titles soon and all I can really hope is that some of the 3rd Party companies become more willing to put their games on the service, especially the ones they don't plan on re-releasing on modern consoles, since I feel those titles they have nothing to lose on putting on the NSO.