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I've tried it and have a few thoughts:
Initial selection is only 23 games, not sure why they're not just releasing everything. I guess they're planning on parceling the music out like their emulators.
The choices of games are also kind of strange, like why 2 versions of Metroid? Why starfox 64 and not like Mario 64
The ability to extend songs up to 60 minutes is pretty cool
The idea of character specific playlists is interesting
It crashes semi frequently, not a good sign.
It does add value to the Switch online membership, but not much at this point.
It's to keep people returning to the app by artificially boosting the amount of updates.
Either that or licensing issues, but I just wanna have my conspiracy theory.
I think Nintendo already owns the rights to most (if not all) of the music for their games so I'm pretty sure your conspiracy theory is correct.
If they don't own the rights to that music they've certainly been militant in taking down any other platform that makes it available.