Nintendo Gamecube Online

Nintendo Gamecube Nintendo Online (commonly referred to as "Gamecube Online") is part of the expansion pack to the Nintendo Switch Online (later known as Nintendo Online) service provided by Nintendo in 2018, this is the first set of Nintendo online games to come to Nintendo Polygon.
==History And Development==
On September 19th, 2018, the Nintendo Switch Online service launched, . One of the features was the ability to play NES titles through the new Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo Switch Online service. New games were added monthly leading up to the 5th of September 2019, when the service was expanded to SNES games. At this point, Nintendo stopped providing monthly games, however, they still irregularly added both NES and SNES games to the service. Then in 2021, They Released the N64 lineup of games to the library. In 2023 they did the same with GameBoy
As Step Ahead Studios planned the Nintendo Polygon, they knew a dedicated home console system may disappoint Nintendo Switch owners waiting for a true successor to the Switch rather than a return to home consoles. To combat this, the CEO, ContinuousBruh, looked at a list of fan's wishes for the Nintendo Switch and looked at what was possible in their development time. Aside from a true return of the Virtual Console, complete with Gamecube and Wii U games (which Nintendo would not allow), they decided the only other option was to skip a theoretical N64 Online and go straight to Gamecube Online. Nintendo agreed to the idea and got Nintendo EPD to develop the service.
==Reveal==
Nintendo Online: Gamecube Online was revealed at the Nintendo E3 2024 direct, along with the Nintendo Polygon. Nintendo made sure to highlight the fact that fan's favourite Nintendo games were going to be re-released on the service, such as Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine and Pikmin, and the service would be exclusive to the Nintendo Polygon and the last game console for the switch.
==Launch==
Naturally, Gamecube Online was a roaring success and brought in many new subscribers for Nintendo Online. It caused so much traffic to the servers, that people usually list it as the number one most likely reason that the Nintendo Online servers went down on the Nintendo Polygon's launch day, sometimes even over the fact that new hardware launched that day. Once the servers were back online, Nintendo gifted everyone a free 3-month subscription to the service, 6 months if your Nintendo Account had been registered with a Nintendo Polygon Deluxe Edition.
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