Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s been…

Mario Celebration 1 and 2 got here and went late final yr on the Nintendo Change On-line Enlargement Pack service, and since then, issues have been a bit…sluggish going. As a reader identified to me this previous weekend, that prior twin launch was on November 2, 2022: 82 days in the past as of the time of publication.

There are a couple of video games which might be presently introduced and will probably be popping out this yr, however we don’t have launch dates for any of them. Right here’s a refresher.

Here’s what’s coming to the Nintendo 64 Change lineup in 2023:

• 1080 Snowboarding
• Excitebike 64
• Mario Celebration 3
• Pokemon Stadium
• Pokemon Stadium 2
• Harvest Moon 64 (Japan-only)

To date, that’s all we learn about. Naturally, extra video games could possibly be introduced, and in a hypothetical scenario, all of those may come out earlier than E3: with a much bigger dump arriving in the course of the yr towards the tip of 2023. We may even see some type of improve for the Enlargement Pack service as an entire, however I wouldn’t rely on it.

Within the meantime, this sluggish drip that’s very typical of Nintendo retro re-releases has now grow to be a damaged faucet. For the reason that unique launch on October 25, 2021 (has it actually been over a yr for the reason that Enlargement Pack got here out?), Nintendo has launched 21 video games within the west (and 21 video games in Japan, since they don’t get Dr. Mario 64 and Pokemon Puzzle League).

Are you cool with it? Or would you prefer to see extra? Or perhaps you don’t care since you don’t even subscribe to the Change On-line Enlargement Pack for this very purpose!