In a month of out-there announcements from Nintendo that haven’t been the confirmed successor to the Nintendo Switch, the Big N revealed and released a brand new mobile application today – Nintendo Music. The application, which needs a paid Nintendo Switch Online account to use, is an Apple Music-like app that has a bunch of music from a myriad of games published by the company, including Pokémon, Splatoon, The Legend of Zelda and Wii Shop Channel.
The current line-up includes music from (platform in brackets):
Metroid (NES)
Metroid (Famicom Disk System)
Super Mario Bros. (NES)
Kirby’s Dream Land (Game Boy)
Dr. Mario (Game Boy)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (Super NES)
Donkey Kong Country (Super NES)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)
Star Fox 64 (Nintendo 64)
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Game Boy Advance)
Metroid Prime (Nintendo GameCube)
Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo DS)
nintendogs (Nintendo DS)
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Wii)
Wii Channels (Nintendo Wii)
Pikmin 4 (Nintendo Switch)
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Nintendo Switch)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo Switch)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
Kirby Star: Allies (Nintendo Switch)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo Switch)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo Switch)
In the above trailer, Nintendo teases that music from the following games will be appearing on the app in the future:
Wii Sports
Super Mario 64
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Splatoon 2
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
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Besides being a music player, the Nintendo Music app also has some interesting features. One of the bigger ones is being able to loop certain songs for up to 60 minutes, much like they’re used within games themselves, rather than just being a snippet and downloading the songs to listen offline.
Others include recommendations based on the games you’ve played on your Switch, such as if you’ve played too much Splatoon, all the highlights will be Deep Cut and the Squid Sisters, and having playlists based on events in-game, situations or even characters, letting you listen to Bowser’s playlist of every time he was beaten by Mario. A feature also exists where you hide musical spoilers for games you haven’t completed. So far, the composers for each of the tracks haven’t been listed.
The Nintendo Music app is free to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, much like the library of classic games on the Switch. However, the application, which is only available for certain Android devices and iPhones, cannot be used without the NSO subscription.
Source: Nintendo on X (formerly Twitter)
