ARMS joins Nintendo Music with 45-track update
Nintendo Music has added 45 tracks from the 2017 Switch fighter ARMS, bringing roughly 90 minutes of its soundtrack to the service.
Nintendo Music has added ARMS to its catalogue, giving subscribers access to 45 tracks from Nintendo’s 2017 Switch fighter. The update brings roughly an hour and a half of music from the brightly coloured boxing game to Nintendo’s soundtrack service. 13
The official Nintendo Music playlist identifies the new collection as ARMS, while Nintendo’s game page describes the title as a fighter built around extendable arms, customisable weapons and one-on-one or two-on-two battles. 12
What the update includes
ARMS launched on Nintendo Switch in 2017 and remains one of the platform’s more distinctive first-party fighting games. Its cast includes fighters with radically different abilities, while its arenas and elastic punches give the soundtrack a more playful identity than Nintendo’s traditional martial-arts or arcade brawlers. 2
The music can be streamed through Nintendo Music on iOS, Android and the web, provided listeners have an active Nintendo Switch Online membership. The service has been steadily expanding beyond Nintendo’s biggest franchises, making room for complete or near-complete soundtrack collections from older Switch releases as well as classic games. 13
Nintendo has also listed ARMS as supported on Nintendo Switch 2, with the game’s behaviour remaining consistent with the original Switch version. That makes the soundtrack addition useful beyond simple nostalgia: it gives players who revisit the fighter on newer hardware a convenient way to return to its music away from the game itself. 2
Our opinion
Adding ARMS is a smart catalogue choice because the game’s music is part of its personality rather than background filler. Nintendo Music works best when it reminds listeners of games with a strong atmosphere, and ARMS has a colourful, kinetic identity that should translate well to a standalone playlist. It is not a hint that a sequel is coming — there is no official announcement to support that theory — but it is a welcome acknowledgement of a first-party game that still has a distinct sound.