{"id":9030,"date":"2022-10-25T12:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/poll-is-the-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-good-enough-value-yet\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:14:54","slug":"poll-is-the-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-good-enough-value-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/poll-is-the-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-good-enough-value-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Is The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Good Enough Value Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One year on, how have things improved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a year since Nintendo launched its higher-tier Expansion Pack service for Nintendo Switch Online, which brought a select library of Sega Mega Drive \/ Genesis games and Nintendo 64 titles to Switch alongside access to otherwise-paid DLC such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_-_happy_home_paradise_dlc\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons &#8211; Happy Home Paradise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Priced at $49.99USD \/ \u00a334.99 for an individual yearly subscription \u2014 an extra $30 \/ \u00a317 on top of the standard annual Nintendo Switch Online subscription offering \u2014 the sentiment among Switch owners at launch wasn&#8217;t particularly warm, with criticism directed at a small initial library of N64 titles, various distracting (and, in some cases, game-hampering) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-nintendos-n64-emulation-is-serviceable-but-treasured-memories-deserve-better\">emulation issues<\/a>, and a general feeling that this new tier didn&#8217;t offer enough value-for-money to justify the higher asking price.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/poll-is-the-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-good-enough-value-yet\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Poll: Is The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Good Enough Value Yet?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>One year on, how have things improved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a year since Nintendo launched its higher-tier Expansion Pack service for Nintendo Switch Online, which brought a select library of Sega Mega Drive \/ Genesis games and Nintendo 64 titles to Switch alongside access to otherwise-paid DLC such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_-_happy_home_paradise_dlc\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons &#8211; Happy Home Paradise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Priced at $49.99USD \/ \u00a334.99 for an individual yearly subscription \u2014 an extra $30 \/ \u00a317 on top of the standard annual Nintendo Switch Online subscription offering \u2014 the sentiment among Switch owners at launch wasn&#8217;t particularly warm, with criticism directed at a small initial library of N64 titles, various distracting (and, in some cases, game-hampering) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-nintendos-n64-emulation-is-serviceable-but-treasured-memories-deserve-better\">emulation issues<\/a>, and a general feeling that this new tier didn&#8217;t offer enough value-for-money to justify the higher asking price.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/poll-is-the-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack-good-enough-value-yet\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}