Nintendo ignores Spotify and launches its own music streaming service

If there's one thing Nintendo excels at, it's the art of being desired. While the world awaits a reveal of its next console, which will succeed one of the biggest hardware successes of its existence, Nintendo does as it pleases and prefers to make a series of unrelated announcements. Two days ago, the Japanese firm announced the highly anticipated port of Xenoblade Chronicles on Nintendo Switch, while the latter was until now stuck on the poor Wii U. And then yesterday, Wednesday October 30, the Japanese giant announced a music streaming platform dedicated to its own original soundtracks, in direct snub to expectations of players who were hoping for the arrival of said OST (Original Soundtracks) on other platforms.

Nintendo Music is officially revealed

It must be said that Nintendo is not known for being the most dilettante player when it comes to copyright. The firm has launched numerous legal actions against people who broadcast the famous OSTs on YouTube, for example. So obviously, the expectation to see the most famous titles of the company's games arrive on music platforms has continued to grow over the years. And so Nintendo responds, with its own music streaming service. As the saying goes, you are never better served than by yourself.

It is therefore now possible to download Nintendo Music on iOS and Android smartphones, but be careful: to enjoy music from the Nintendo catalog, you must be a subscriber to Nintendo Switch Online, Nintendo's equivalent of PS Plus. The OSTs present are numerous (they range from Metroid Prime has Pokémonpassing through Super Mario Galaxy, Odysseywithout forgetting Fire Emblem), but they are not all there.

We talked about it above: for example, the original soundtracks of games Monolith Soft Xenoblade are not accessible in the catalog. Moreover, the application seems well designed for daily use, with the presence in particular of playlists by game, but also by genre or even by type of atmosphere chosen. And then, for those who want to be surprised by the soundtrack of a game that they have not yet tested, it is possible to activate a “spoiler” option to avoid disappointments of this type. .