The new Nintendo Music app is great, but it's missing an important detail!

Game news The new Nintendo Music app is great, but it's missing an important detail!

The surprise of the weekend

We've known it for a while now: Nintendo likes to play in its own backyard and generally, it doesn't do things like everyone else. For now, what better example than Nintendo Music, revealed yesterday and released immediately? We are talking here about an application to download on iOS and Android which allows you to listen to the OSTs of all Nintendo games: Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Super Mario Odyssey, Pikmin 4, Pokémon Scarlet / Purple, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, nintendogsMetroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby’s Dream Land, Metroid premier du nom et même les Chaines Wii… There is something for all tastes and for all eras, with the added promise of adding new music over time.

Because yes, instead of going to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and others to distribute its soundtracks as is normally customary for publishers, Nintendo preferred to develop its own music streaming platform. The advantage (for him, especially), This is because its access is only reserved for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, with or without the Extension Pass.

In addition, this also allows Nintendo to develop new features. For example, you can choose the duration of certain tracksgoing up to a one-hour loop for example; there is even a “spoilers” option which allows you not to come across the music of a particular gamein order not to disclose elements of the plot through the names of the tracks or their illustrative images. For the rest, Nintendo offers a whole bunch of categories and playlists based on: by character, by mood, by license… There is plenty to do.

But where are the artists?

However, an essential element is missing, specific to the copyrights to which Nintendo is so attached, which has always gone to war against all those who do not respect them: absolutely no composers are mentioned on Nintendo Music and you will agree, it's a bit ironic for a music streaming service to not know who we're listening to. Even in the “legal notices” of the music, they are not credited.

This also raises a question of respect: if Nintendo has made its mark over its decades, it is also thanks to legendary composers who have largely participated in building its reputation. For example, we can cite the great Koji Kondo, who has worked at Nintendo since 1984 and to whom we owe the cult music for Super Mario Bros., Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and dozens of others. Same story for David Wise for example, one of the most distinguished who signed the OST of Donkey Kong Country; from Star Fox Adventures and so on. And then there are dozens more.

Maybe Nintendo will fix this in a future update?

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