Do you think Nintendo fans whom are grumbling right now will actually vote with their wallets this time thru or will they just do their usual habit of muttering under their breath but ponying up? This only makes Nintendo justified into finding more ways to exploit users for as little content as possible as far as I'm concerned. It seems Nintendo fans have little understanding of how economy works. I'm wondering if the majority are 14 year olds?
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It’s not a price hike, it’s more content for $50 a year, you can still buy regular online for $20 a year. The updated has a sega genesis catalog and a revamped N64 catalog with online multiplayer.
Disclaimer: I am coming from the position of having owned (and still own) every Nintendo home console since the N64, all of which are accompanied by large or otherwise sizable physical game libraries.
Dude, it's a price hike, there is no 2 ways about it. $50 (up from $20) a year to gain access to a pittance of games that you don't even get to keep afterward, for a system that people have been clamoring for since the beginning of the service (among others), even going as far as to lock a specific game DLC behind it (yes, I know you can buy it separately, same conditions still apply due to its online nature), and they will continue to drip feed titles like they have with NES and SNES over the last several years. Even worse, all of the announced Sega Genesis titles are already released in one form or another on the Switch and other systems, versions that if you bought (especially the physical versions), you got to keep forever.
And then there is Nintendo 64 titles...
The Nintendo 64 games for Switch are especially egregious given how many first party titles were released for the system, and that's not to mention the numerous second and third party titles that in all likelihood will never see the light of day due to either expired licenses, greed on behalf of the surviving publishers from that era (ex. Konami owns all the Hudson Soft IPs, meaning the Bomberman games, Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth, etc will never show up on Switch) or being stuck in copyright hell for one reason or another (most infamous example: Goldeneye 007).
Frankly, all this should have been implemented into what is now the base online plan (which in turn, should have also been free from the very beginning considering the service's predecessors, and I have never paid in all my time of owning the Switch), especially if we will only end up with a handful of additional games by the time the Switch goes end of life due to Nvidia stopping the manufacturing of the Tegra X1 (the chip the Switch uses) earlier this year.
There is also the continuing issue surrounding lack of features comparing to the competition. If PC was at 100%, Xbox at 90%, PlayStation at 80-90%, and smart phones at around 50% give or take, Nintendo is somewhere in the 15% range, if that. $50 a year 4-5 years after the fact, and Nintendo STILL hasn't figured out how to implement being able to message between friends, or voice chatting within games, features that Xbox live had from its very beginnings nearly 20 years ago! Transferring save data is locked behind the online (you can only transfer to the cloud, negating the point of the micro SD card slot, USB flash drives are restricted in the same fashion), the eshop physically lags (the same cannot be said for the Wii and WiiU eshops), and Nintendo's online speed and stability overall is unacceptable.
I would even dare say that the Switch's online functionality is inferior to its predecessors (Wii and WiiU) with all else in mind on account of one factor: Virtual Console. The Virtual Console for the Wii and WiiU not only had a MUCH greater selection compared to what's on the Switch now, you actually got to keep those games, which is especially relevant for Wii owners whose online service shut down several years ago now.
Long story short: Take Nintendo's dick out of your mouth, and recognize that the success of the Switch and its paid online has made them especially greedy.
It continues to boggle my mind that people don't just use an emulator on their PC which is vastly more powerful than a Switch. Runs better, and you don't have the licensing issues. And every single cartridge ever released for any region takes up less space than a single AAA PC game. Do people just like throwing their money away buying the same 20-30 year old games over and over again? Must be nice to have that kind of cash.
They are mini Soros. :) 'Nostaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalgic! cries the fans and ignores any ration while foaming at the mouth.
Some might, the rest just don't know any better. I have all my cartridge-based systems (NES, N64, Genesis) set up with Everdrives + SD cards with the entire libraries on them, but those cost a pretty penny (100$-200$ a pop depending on the model), even if the systems themselves aren't (assuming you buy used or had one from long ago like me).
Hey retard, you can go buy a whole year for online for 20 buck right now. The 50 bucks is a alternative with additional content. So long story short, go take the extra chromosomes out of your mouth.
You don't get it, do you?
By placing N64 and Genesis games in their own price tier, the base package is rendered a worse value retroactively, and the slow rate at which they put games on the service will make sure it stays that way.
If Nintendo is this brazen now, there's nothing stopping them from charging even higher prices (to speculate:$80) for access to Gamecube games, DS games, or Gameboy/Color/Advance games, assuming they even get that far.
Apparently you don’t get it, if people don’t buy it then it won’t stay that way, if people do buy it then they will expand it. However they still offer the exact same service for 20 dollars a year, which is by far the cheapest yearly cost for online gaming. If they decide to raise the base cost I will care, until then let them try fleecing the nostalgia whales.