It was announced that a selection of beloved Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games would be added to the service, as well free access to the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons DLC, was coming to Switch Online. In October this year, Nintendo looked to have finally got the memo on the need to improve the service. Nevertheless compared to its rivals, which offer a rotating selection of more recently released games, it’s a pretty poor membership perk.
Eventually, SNES games were added as well, and currently, Switch Online members can access more than 100 classic games from both retro consoles libraries. The service also launched with a selection of NES games playable on Switch. Not to mention popular games like Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons don't even support the feature at all, for reasons that are flimsy at best. There was some appreciation for the lower cost of $20 (compared to $60 for online services on PlayStation/Xbox) but the decision to gate the ability to store game saves in the cloud behind the online paywall was met with some criticism.
While it took longer than expected, likely to allow enough time for the console to build up a library of games actually worth playing online, in September 2018 Nintendo Switch Online launched and the reaction was mixed. But Nintendo was quick to warn customers that early in the console’s lifecycle the functionality would be moved behind a paywall.
When the Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017 the ability to play games online was completely free.
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