Nintendo could possibly be getting ready so as to add extra titles to its NES and SNES libraries on Nintendo Change On-line.
In line with the NinStatusBot Twitter account – a profile that tracks Nintendo’s upkeep home windows – each the NES and SNES apps will go down for upkeep on Thursday morning between 00:55 – 02:00 UTC.
Nintendo typically takes its retro console apps down for upkeep when it provides new titles to them, suggesting it might make an announcement both as we speak or on Thursday morning that extra NES and SNES video games are being added.
The final time each apps went down for upkeep was proper after the final Nintendo Direct, which resulted within the addition of Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings to the service.
Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings – Change On-line trailer
The final time they acquired new titles earlier than that was again in July 2021, which additionally noticed them each present process upkeep beforehand.
Equally, the N64 app acquired upkeep proper earlier than Banjo-Kazooie was added to the service on January 20.
The final time the Mega Drive app underwent upkeep was on December 16, 2021, after which 5 video games had been added – ToeJam & Earl, Altered Beast, Dynamite Headdy, Sword of Vermillion and Thunder Power II.
Previous situations, then, recommend that new NES and SNES titles are probably on the way in which, although it ought to be famous that this isn’t a certainty. Prior to now, each the NES and SNES apps have additionally undergone upkeep that hasn’t resulted within the addition of latest titles to their libraries.
Earlier than Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings have been added, the final time the SNES library had acquired new video games earlier than that was on July 28, 2021, when Claymates, Jelly Boy and Bombuzal have been added to the service.
The NES library, in the meantime, hadn’t acquired a brand new title since Might 2021, when it acquired Jaleco’s Famicom motion sport Ninja JaJaMaru-kun.
