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[nightside]

Wow. What a great way to made people pay for your online service XD! Holy super fucking shit!

 

[Mrbob]

Nintendo looks at what other services do then offer a fraction and think we should be happy.

 

[FTF]

lol that's pathetic

 

[Jonneh3003]

I hope this is really cheap.

 

[Reckless Onion]

this service will be 5-10 € then or what?

 

[fluffydelusions]

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

I can't understand anything about this. Stuff like this makes it seem like the Switch is a direct competitor to the PS4/XB1. Unless the online price is significantly lower than PS+ or XB Gold, this isn't even a contest. The whole paid multiplayer business is the one aspect of the Switch reveal that seems to be received negatively pretty much everywhere.

 

[rootbeerafloat]

Out of everything Nintendo is doing wrong with the Switch, this irks me the most by far.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

This is such a Nintendo thing to do. I really don't understand how the people making this decision didn't get interrupted by someone saying "this is bizarre you idiots!" How can they think this is a good idea in the slightest? What's even the point of this decision? PSN offers full games for free each month and the Switch gets a nes/snes title for a singular month... wow.

 

[Possumowner]

Nintendo what are you doing

 

[Xaero Gravity]

I do think the paid for online / use smartphone for voice chat / rent a nes game is by far the worst part of the Switch concept. It makes no sense to me.

Whoa whoa whoa, that's confirmed?

 

[Coma Ecliptic]

Man Nintendo still trying to figure out how to be a 21st century company. Absurd.

 

[Alucrid]

sounds pretty good. i'd pay $5 a month for that

 

[Jeels]

The max I would be willing to pay for a service like this is $30 a year and hopefully there are sales to $20 like PSN/XBL frequently get sales...

The only games I buy on Nintendo consoles are Nintendo games, so paying a full $60 for online seems insane.

 

[Doug Heffernan]

You gotta be kidding me. It's as if they pretend a precedence doesn't already exist. Arrogance of the highest order.

 

[Hoo-doo]

This better be like 20 bucks a year. What a pitiful value.

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

They're just helping us manage our fridges.

 

[seantos]

This isn't even a "free game" then. Its a free rental or loaner. You are better off with a library card and borrowing old games from them lol.

 

[Trojita]

The absolute max this service should cost is $30.

What's the chance Nintendo offers a larger discount on sale items like Playstation Plus?

 

[shinobi602]

This keeps getting better.

 

[BadWolf]

This better be like 20 bucks a year. What a pitiful value.

Those accessory prices tho.

 

[Rezae]

"Value" is apparently nowhere in Nintendo's vocabulary.


I miss Iwata...

What's the chance Nintendo offers a larger discount on sale items like Playstation Plus?

They'll knock 5% off and act like you're getting a steal.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

So I lose the ability to trade and battle Pokemon online for free and get some demos of 20+ year old games as compensation? What?

 

[dragonyeuw]

How do the bigwigs sit in the corporate offices and determine that this is a good practice? I get it, Nintendo does things their own way relative to Sony and MS. But FFS Nintendo, it's entirely possible to 'be different' to your detriment. Nintendo has a long way to go to convince that they're capable of overseeing a modern online ecosystem, and then to pull this crap?

 

[TheAdmiester]

You'd think games from the 1980s would be dead enough sales-wise to just let people keep, especially when they're subscribed to them.

Does Nintendo really think their stuff retains this much value?

 

[Living the Dream]

Whoa whoa whoa, that's confirmed?

Yes. Can only voice chat via phone app Lol

 

[gngf123]

Yeah, this is pathetic.

 

[prwxv3]

The absolute max this service should cost is $30.

What's the chance Nintendo offers a larger discount on sale items like Playstation Plus?

Lol

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

It's like they are making a competition on how many stupid decisions they can make with a single system holy shit.

And I thought the Wii U was a culmination of stupid.

 

[LinkSlayer64]

... waiting for price, but I may actually cancel my preorder.

 

[VendettaRed07]

Spend $5 a month to rent games that you can just buy for $5

 

[Pandy]

Until we know the price of the service, complaining about what is and isn't included seems ridiculous.

 

[serenewarfare]

The absolute max this service should cost is $30.

What's the chance Nintendo offers a larger discount on sale items like Playstation Plus?

They did mention "exclusive deals" as a perk of membership, but who the hell knows what that entails.

 

[Beartruck]

People joke about how you don't really own PS+ Games and they're just rentals, but this is literally just rentals! Unless online is under $20 a year they've lost their goddamned minds.

 

[onemanasylum]

This better be like 20 bucks a year. What a pitiful value.

Should be free from all we know so far.

 

[dlcnotincluded]

Not even surprised at this rate.

It's like Nintendo hates giving out free stuff or something by using their services.

 

[Warnen]

Can't see Nintendo having the balls to charge XBL/PSN prices for this, hope its $20 max a year. But then again its Nintendo

 

[Sorcerer Supreme]

nintendo will never get it

 

[jay]

You are paying for them to lend you the game in hopes you'll give them more money to keep the game.

 

[Frumix]

Look at the bright side. They'll have to add at least one VC game a month starting in the fall.

No they don't.

 

[kadotsu]

This is what happens when a company overestimates the value of their old stuff by a lot.

 

[Neverthelesser]

Why not make it like PS+ where you keep it as long as you keep the subscription? I don't understand the logic of this model...

 

[OrbitalBeard]

Nintendo really needs to give us a price here. At $20 that seems fine. At $60 that's absolutely awful. I'm getting the feeling it's gonna be absolutely awful.

Thing is out in like a month and a half - this is information people need before they buy the damn thing.

I'm trying really hard to be positive, but I'm bracing myself for the service to cost $10.

Per month.

 

[LewieP]

I love that it's just for NES and SNES games, no N64, GC, or Wii games.

It's probably going to be games that a lot of people have bought in the eShop previously.

On the plus side, when it's time for Ballon Fight, you won't really mind when they take it away.

 

[Trojita]

This keeps getting better.

 

[TheCowboyPoet]

Nintendo, this was your chance. How are you doing EVERYTHING wrong?!

 

[Bsigg12]

Those 1 month rentals of old games are so generous.

 

[Crimsonclaw111]

They did mention "exclusive deals" as a perk of membership, but who the hell knows what that entails.

5 percent off a $60 title

 

[Kazooie]

If it costs more than £19.99 per year it'll bomb.

 

[The Omega Man]

So you pay for a service and they give you games that expire after 30 days? or you just can't claim the games anymore and add them to your collection after 30 days? I don't understand