Nintendo Reveals Important Information About Switch Ahead of Online Service Arrival

Make sure the account on your Nintendo Switch is set up correctly before September 18 arrives.

[chris235]

watched a youtube video yesterday where they explained how this service is tota garbage. sounded very legit what they had to say.

[bouzebbal]

Nintendo is absolute joke, but they are lucky they have lots of fanboys out there ready to buy the console without internet service day one.
Even the WiiU came out with FREE online service when it came out.

[ShadowNextGen]

The Nintendo Switch has had internet service from day one. There has never been a day where the Switch hasn't had an online network. You could go online and download games and even play online against friends with games that had online multiplayer and more. It has been free since launch while Nintendo worked on improving it but they also announced early on that, eventually, it would be a paid service like their competition. It is also a third of the price at $20 for a year.

[JunMei]

Yeah! Damn Nintendo for making a positive change! How DARE they start making attempts to modernize. You know what? They should burn in hell and so should all who enjoy fun and don't enjoy being violated with micro transactions!

T_T

Please... find a more productive use of your time.

[boing1]

I'm guessing not many will pay for it. Sounds like an afterthought.

[Razmiran]

Ehhh I wouldnt underestimate the amount wanting to play smash and splatoon online

[Neonridr]

it's $2 a month for me in Canada. Pretty sure I would be willing to pay $2 to have access to a bunch of retro titles and the ability to play online for certain titles and have cloud saving for others.

[Gh05t]

Yeah the amount charged is basically throwaway money. If I get anything out of the service it will pay for itself.

Let that not be confused with me being happy with or how this service is being deployed. But at less than a can of Monster per month I can't say the price is what scares me away from the service.

[ShadowNextGen]

It will be very successful. It is only $20 for a year.

[CDbiggen]

They've handled this terribly.
It's five days from now and we still don't know what to really expect. Sure we're getting this direct, but this knowledge should've been around for months.

[InKnight7s]

Annnnd again Nintendo get a pass for being shady and crap.

[DrStronk]

How are they getting a free pass when literally no one supports this? I will not be paying for this yet... i know that most of my friends won't either. (we'll most likely go in on the family membership when Smash is released though, 35$ divided on 8 people is basicly free).

[ShadowNextGen]

Nothing about this is shady. They are giving advance warning how things will be handled so no one is taken by surprise.

[lellkay]

We still know barley anything. Pathetic.

[jmc8888]

The thing that should scare people is how much of the online userbase is going to crater in online games. The userbase of many games could tank 30-50-70 percent. It's a huge question mark. No one will know until they hit the switch (no pun intended), but once they do, it's going to drop. There is a 7 day trial, so the worst of it might not hit until about a week or so after.

Besides all the talk about what the service offers, the simple fact is, it's still a secondary device for many. People aren't going to stop their Live or PS+ for Nintendo. They are beholden to those people willing to take on the responsibility to pay a 2nd or 3rd service.

Then you have the casual parents who buy the devices for their casual children. They aren't going to want to pay for ANY service. I think we'll see that part of the online userbase fall off the map big time. It wouldn't surprise me to see that section drop off 90 percent.

The games will still survive, and people will still find online matches, but it will decrease, and in some games, that might mean a situation where you end up playing the same people because there's only a few matches ongoing. It just doesn't add value to Nintendo's games, it decreases them.

Even then, what will happen one or two years from now? I can see where people buy it for one year to test it out, and then go, screw it.

Then what happens a few years from now when Nintendo stops supporting it so they can gear up for whatever comes next? Imagine what Wii U would of been like had they had this? The last couple of years for the WIi U, people would have stopped paying for it, and the online userbase would have evaporated. Same could happen here.

[MrSec84]

£17.99 for basically a growing collection of classic Nintendo games to play anywhere, discounts on the e-store and cloud saves is a bargain to me.

The first 20 games on the NES list are awesome, looking forward to this launching next week.