Switch Online Expansion Pack Trailer Has Bad News for Pokemon Stadium Fans

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Pokemon Stadium fans may be fairly disappointed to know that the new trailer for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack doubles down on some bad news about its newest N64 port. Both Pokemon Stadium and its sequel Pokemon Stadium 2 are coming to Nintendo Switch Online sometime this year, and this news may hinder some people's interest in downloading the games when they launch.

Nintendo has been making some big moves with a slew of announcements recently for additions to the games available with Nintendo Switch Online and the expansion pack, like classic Game Boy Advance titles Metroid Fusion and Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade and, of course, both of the Pokemon Stadium titles with online play included for the first time. This is thrilling for many who consider Pokemon Stadium both nostalgic and one of the best ways to experience multiplayer Pokemon battles in the franchise's history. However, there was one concerning detail in the original announcement, and fans were hoping that the detail would later be removed or revised, but the newest advertisement from Nintendo appears to double down.

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The latest Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack ad shows off Pokemon Stadium once again as one of the titles that will soon be arriving on the service. The small-print detail that returns at the bottom of the screen reads, «Pokemon cannot be transferred to these games.» The Japanese version of this trailer, which came a few weeks earlier, did not include this disclaimer and led some hopeful gamers to believe that maybe Nintendo would revise the information to read that Pokemon transfers would be availablein the Pokemon Stadium games sometime after launch. The more recent English