For the longest time, Nintendo wasn’t exactly the “best” when it came to its music library. By that, I’m not referring to the music itself, as we all know The Big N loves to make memorable soundtracks, but rather, how gamers could listen to the tracks outside of the games themselves. The company was infamous for taking down YouTube channels that featured libraries of their tracks, and that made gamers sad, as they wanted to listen to the music on the regular, at times. Then, out of nowhere, they revealed Nintendo Music, and everything changed.
With it, came not only an extension of Nintendo Switch Online, but a vast library of OSTs for gamers to listen to across the decades of the company’s gaming life. Just as important, they’re updating it on the regular. In an interview with Variety, Nintendo Vice President, Player & Product Experience, Bill Trinen, talked about the anniversary and how significant it truly was:
“This week actually, is the one year anniversary of the release of Nintendo Music. There’s an app that you can download for your phone that has retro soundtracks dating back to the NES era, all the way up to more modern soundtracks from the Switch, and even some music from the Switch 2 era on it, as well. So we’re really trying to broaden exposure to our overall very, very large music library, but also then trying to find different ways to deliver it to different fans of music.”
This notion was proven in a different way when, in that same interview, Trinen revealed the special vinyl collection of the Breath of the Wild soundtrack.
So, it seems that Nintendo is FINALLY on board with “giving the people what they want” in the music sense, and I’m very curious what comes next.
Source: Variety
