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title: "Emily Rogers – Licensing likely main culprit behind Nintendo Switch Online expansion price"
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Emily Rogers - Licensing likely main culprit behind Nintendo Switch Online expansion price | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Emily Rogers – Licensing likely main culprit behind Nintendo Switch Online expansion price](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/emily-rogers-licensing-likely-main-culprit-behind-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-price.jpeg "Emily Rogers – Licensing likely main culprit behind Nintendo Switch Online expansion price")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/emily-rogers-licensing-likely-main-culprit-behind-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-price.jpeg)Known Nintendo insider Emily Rogers commented on the pricing announcement for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pass. Which many people have dubbed the Expensive pass.

The Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, which was unveilied, costs $49.99 / £35.99 per year for individuals and $79.99 / £59.99 for the family plan and includes NES, SNES, intendo 64 and SEGA Mega Drive games. Also included is the normally paid downloadable content pack for Animal Crossing: New Horizons titled Happy Home Paradise.

## [](#licensing-costs)Licensing costs

Emily noted on Twitter that she had heard that licensing costs could be behind the higher than expected price of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pass. She had heard that SEGA had benefitted quite nicely from the deal with Nintendo and presumably other third party game developers such as Konami and Capcom.

> 3rd parties titles (Konami, Capcom) are also being licensed for Genesis NSO. So the licensing costs begin to add up after awhile.
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> And who knows what licensing agreement/arrangement Nintendo had with Rare/Microsoft…
>
> — Emily Rogers (@EmilyRogersBlog) [October 15, 2021](https://twitter.com/EmilyRogersBlog/status/1449039557136093184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

The Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack launches on 25th /26th October and Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise launches 5th November

We stand by our initial opinion; for a Single User the price simply put is way too high when compared to a family version which is then only slightly more expensive and get’s you 8 times the entire set.

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