Beginning March 28, exactly one month from this writing, the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service will lose its first game. As first announced on Twitter by Nintendo, Super Formation Soccer, a Super Famicom (SNES) title, will be removed from the NSO Japanese library.
When the title does leave the service, it'll mark the first time that a game from the library has been removed since its initial inception in 2018. At this moment, it's unclear whether Super Soccer, which is the translated version of the game in the West, will also be removed.
Nintendo Switch Online now has a great selection of Game Boy games, but one day that service will end and those games will be lost again.
Whereas the Wii, Wii U and 3DS had the Virtual Console, which allowed players to outright purchase and own titles from Nintendo's past, the company replaced that feature with Nintendo Switch Online.
It's unclear exactly why that decision was made, though earlier this year, it was rumored that the feature would have been "too costly" on the Switch, specifically the need to have multiple emulators. In its place, NSO not only gives players online functionality, but provides a Netflix-like updated...
