Nintendo has revealed Nintendo Music, a streaming app that features decades of video game music and soundtracks. It’s free to download for Android and iOS, but there’s a catch. It’s only available for Nintendo Switch Online members.
Nintendo Music includes most of what you’d expect from a music streaming app: downloadable tracks for offline playback, personalized playlists, and recommendations based on play history.
One unique feature you won’t find in Spotify – spoilers! Spoiler prevention is a setting that hides specific boss tracks or ending sequences.
And since many video game tracks are frequently looped while playing, listeners can extend certain tracks to 15, 30, or even 60 minutes.
The app can also recommend tracks based on your Switch gaming history, since it syncs with your Nintendo account.
Just like the NSO retro game library, the Music library isn’t comprehensive, and skews toward newer Switch releases. Nintendo confirms that more music will be added to the app in the future.
The current library includes the following games:
- Donkey Kong Country
- Splatoon 3
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Metroid Prime
- Super Mario Bros.
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Kirby’s Dreamland
Unfortunately, unlike other streaming apps, Nintendo Music is mobile-only, and not available on PC.
