The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has been investigating the Activision Blizzard Xbox deal and therefore they have gone through numerous documentation about the competition, such as Sony and Nintendo. The Competition and Markets Authority may have inadvertently revealed that the Nintendo Switch Online game service which includes Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Advance games etc, will be on Nintendo’s next video game system, leaving the impression that the Virtual Console service won’t be coming back anytime soon. This could mean that the only way to access retro games on Nintendo’s Switch successor will be to sign up to the subscription service.
Nintendo Switch Online has been excluded from our shares as Nintendo’s cloud gaming service is very limited. Nintendo’s cloud gaming service is only available on the Nintendo Switch device and [REDACTED].
- Nintendo Switch Online gives gamers access to online play and cloud saving amongst other features.
- We therefore see Nintendo Switch Online as predominately an online multiplayer service rather than a cloud gaming service.
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