The official game page for Super Soccer on the Switch Online Super Nintendo service notes how this title will be removed from this digital game library on 27th March 2025 (or 28th March, depending on your location). The title is listed as a Spike Chunsoft release.
Nintendo: “This game will no longer be available starting 3/27/25 at 6:00 p.m. PDT.”
From another article (linked in above article), talking about Famicom version:
Nintendo: “The title “Super Formation Soccer” (Spike Chunsoft) included in “Super Famicom Nintendo Switch Online” will end distribution at 10:00 AM on Friday, March 28, 2025. After distribution ends, even those who have already downloaded “Super Famicom Nintendo Switch Online” will no longer be able to use it.”
They are testing the reaction.
Not sure why you’re down voted, I’d agree, seeing what they can get away with. Keep removing features and games, if no one cries, who cares, one less thing to worry about maintaining.
There is so much backlash towards ubisoft etc for these practices, of course they want and need to know where and when it is fine to stop paying licensing fees… It’s a random game that probably nobody plays. They want to know if there is outrage. This is probably also why there is news coverage at all?