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Should one of the console manafactures go free online?
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Movalpolos
Banned
Nintendo should go free.
If Amazon ever got into the console business they could. They'd be making more money off selling your info, using your info, and selling you stuff, then they would from charging ~$5 a month. They also have their own powerful infrastructure.
Dear lord, imagine if Amazon got into direct competition with MS and Sony. That would be nuts.
The fundamental difference to consoles is that the reason many people choose Steam and continue to choose it is because it offers the best feature feature set on the platform, not because they simply have no other choice. And part of that feature set is being free.
Ok.
They all should of course, but like many others, I think subscriptions make the least sense for Nintendo and will bite them in the ass quite a bit. They should take a page out of PC developers and recoup the costs with cosmetics and cards (I can't believe I'm saying this, bwuerk). Like PC, the core demographic of adolescents that are willing to pay large sums of money for gaming is relatively tiny on Nintendo. But there's a huge potential market for secondary consoles and more casual gamers (dont forget DS had a similar market size as Steam, but that extended market didn't consist of adolescents I don't think). These are better fleeced via microtransactions than having to pay money upfront. The subscriptions will likely deter many more people than attract them.
GankzyMcfly
Member
I prefer not free and quality vs free and garbage.
IrishNinja
Member
seriously, as long as so many are willing to put up for it, it's money on the table. who's gonna say no to that?
i was about to say sega, but they charged me for PSO in the day too
Jawbreaker
Member
The money is too good. People outside of PC users have shown that they're willing to pay.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Well thank god Steam is free and quality
Sadly you just get paid garbage.
Caayn
Member
I wish that they'd just have a subscription for their game rental services and leave online multiplayer accessible for everyone. As a multi-platform owner it's unfeasible for me to pay for every service, resulting in me not having access to parts of games that I bought unless I have another subscription and I'd would thus sooner ignore DLC and/or buys games on other platforms where I can access those parts. Just XBLG and PS+ alone would already be €100+ each year.
I don't want more subscriptions than I already have, I'm getting sick of all the subscriptions these days.
I don't want more subscriptions than I already have, I'm getting sick of all the subscriptions these days.
Why not when ms went there? That's a lot easier since it hadn't been made a precedent at all and no one had shown that it works yet. And half the console people had not already been conditioned to see it as par for the course (even arguing that ms had better service cause they charged). Hell, ms got people to pay without even offering them incentives like a game library to play while they were subbed.
That was really the time to stop it. By the time Sony did it, many people saw it as why ms was better and Sony had gotten their foot in the door with the free games (which then ms copied because they had to win people back after their flub).
CD keys >>>> account based drm. One just means you have to have the cd. The other one allows for the game company to still have control over if you have access to the game (account banned...lose your games. Snafu in their system and account gone... Lose your games. Company goes under... Lose your games. Company decides to remove access... Lose your game <- Amazon has done this with a book. Point being it is possible and has happened with other digital media).
I haven't paid much attention to PC gaming but I am dismayed people were so easily swayed to account based drm (not all drm is equal). So yeah, PC gamers may not have accepted pay online which is good but they accepted other horrible stuff.
Stiflers Mom
Banned
They should all go free.
Especially ms since they're putting their games on pc with the same Xbox live infrastructure, same azure servers etc. I wish some media would press hard on them about this but nobody seems to care.
I'd keep my sub because the free games are worth it but you shouldn't be paying to play part of the game you already bought
I wish Sony stuck to being free this gen it would be forced Microsofts hand. Since Sony charge and now Nintendo I don't see any of them giving up the billions it'll bring in
Especially ms since they're putting their games on pc with the same Xbox live infrastructure, same azure servers etc. I wish some media would press hard on them about this but nobody seems to care.
I'd keep my sub because the free games are worth it but you shouldn't be paying to play part of the game you already bought
I wish Sony stuck to being free this gen it would be forced Microsofts hand. Since Sony charge and now Nintendo I don't see any of them giving up the billions it'll bring in
Dinky Dino
Member
If that was the case MS would have been completely outdone.
Honestly though the money they all bring in makes it cemented. The one who can afford to make it free again is MS but their xbox division likely needs it to be profitable compared to the rest of MS's divisions.
Either way peer to peer is cancer and paying for it doubly so. I was thinking perhaps there would be a way to get nintendo to backtrack but I'm not seeing it. It's way too much money on the table for them to give it up now that they started down this route.
I think if Sony was still free this gen MS would have backtracked it aswell, they would have gotten slaughtered if not. They wouldn't really have had a choice in the matter.
I still think charging for online is going to backfire for Nintendo because Nintendo is a side console for most people, I think their MP focused games sales will drop a lot. I know I'm not gonna buy Mario Kart any more if I have to pay to go online. But yeah, I can't see anyone backtracking it now that all 3 charge.
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