Yes, and its possible you have to pay for the mobile app as well since there seems to be a free version and a paid version of the app, but its unclear what the difference is.
"Our new dedicated smart device app will connect to Nintendo Switch and let you invite friends to play online, set play appointments, and chat with friends during online matches in compatible games─all from your smart device.
A free, limited version of this app will be available for download in summer 2017."
I can't decide if this is funny or sad.
No. Nope, I refuse to believe it.
Not even Nintendo is this tone-deaf.
Give me the blue pill.
Even the most critical gamers would give Nintendo a bit of slack going into this generation for it to be the one they really need to take the time to build an online network. Look how shite the PS3 was when it launched with the browser store.
However, all this time and Nintendo cannot offer basic voice chat on the system and then also ask us to pay and pull this with the games offered? They're stepping outside of the realm of "oh it's just that they need some time" and stepping into lunacy/greed.
Step inside the Treehouse and see the usual Nintendo madness with games/peripherals, and okay, "fun", but the business side has to give a shit about the console being as close to on par with the PS4/XB1 as possible.
edit: See gif below...
no fucking way, there's no fucking way
Nah. People have been waiting since the DS for Nintendo to get their shit together for online services. DS, Wii, 3DS, WiiU, Switch. This is their 6th system with online services. No excuses any more.
Nah. People have been waiting since the DS for Nintendo to get their shit together for online services. DS, Wii, 3DS, WiiU, Switch. This is their 6th system with online services. No excuses any more.
PS+
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per platform monthly playable as long as you are subscribed
- $60 a year
Games with Gold
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per month per platform, many 360 titles playable on XBone with BC, playable even if you are not subscribed
- $60 a year
Switch Online
- monthly rental of SNES and NES games
- ??? a year
I just don't know anymore.
I guess you can add in fucking voice chat in the feature list.
Because that's not a given in 2017.
It's actually a great idea, it encourages players to buy and play new games instead, GWG and PS+ are a death sentence to new games sales.
And using your phone for voice chat saves switch battery. It pretty genius.
These revelations make the Wii U reveal awesome in comparison.
What a shit show.
PS+
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per platform monthly playable as long as you are subscribed
- $60 a year
Games with Gold
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per month per platform, many 360 titles playable on XBone with BC, playable even if you are not subscribed
- $60 a year
Switch Online
- monthly rental of SNES and NES games
- ??? a year
I just don't know anymore.
I just thought. Jim Sterling is gonna have a field day with this
You also get digital discounts on the Switch. So the only thing Nintendo does not provide is the proper amount of games, it seems? Well, if that's the case, I guess they'll just throw in a second or third one and everyone should be happy, right?
What I can imagine, though, is the game which is being offered for free to be discounted heavily at around 50% or so. So it's more of a monthly full demo of the game which is okay-ish for the start.
You also get digital discounts on the Switch. So the only thing Nintendo does not provide is the proper amount of games, it seems? Well, if that's the case, I guess they'll just throw in a second or third one and everyone should be happy, right?
What I can imagine, though, is the game which is being offered for free to be discounted heavily at around 50% or so. So it's more of a monthly full demo of the game which is okay-ish for the start.
Is Xenoblade confirmed for this year? Because outside of Zelda and XB2, that list does nothing for me unfortunately.Zelda, Splatoon, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, new IPs, probably Xenoblade 2 etc. within the first 9 month. Yes, yes really bad, worst Nintendo console ever
Someone forgot how barebone WiiU, or XOne/PS4 first year was.
PS+
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per platform monthly playable as long as you are subscribed
- $60 a year
Games with Gold
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per month per platform, many 360 titles playable on XBone with BC, playable even if you are not subscribed
- $60 a year
Switch Online
- Voice chat via smart device app (possibly paid)
- monthly rental of 1 SNES or NES game
- ??? a year
I just don't know anymore.
Zelda, Splatoon, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, new IPs, probably Xenoblade 2 etc. within the first 9 month. Yes, yes really bad, worst Nintendo console ever
Someone forgot how barebone WiiU, or XOne/PS4 first year was.
Zelda: Available on the previous generation hardware.
Splatoon 2: Literally just more of a game that already exists. Could easily have been DLC.
Mario: This one's legit.
Mario Kart: A deluxe version of a WiiU game.
New IPs: In the first nine months of release? The landmark titles are a motion game and a minigame collection.
Xenoblade 2: Another legit one -- if it does indeed release this year. That was a very early teaser.
A field day? I expect him to come down on this like a fucking mighty asteroid the size of the Himalayas.
So it's more of a monthly full demo of the game which is okay-ish for the start.
I just thought. Jim Sterling is gonna have a field day with this
If this isn't satire then your blood is pure kool aid and you don't even realize it.
Please be satire.
Do you say this about every online multiplayer franchise? Seems they're mixing up the gameplay this time, all new maps, etc.Splatoon 2: Literally just more of a game that already exists. Could easily have been DLC.
Nintendo's online service also provides digital discounts.
I'd pay a monthly fee to have unlimited access to all VC anytime. That would be the smarter idea but I can't see this current method being that successful.
I'll be you a Kimishima Amiibo that the reason is they are too stubborn to build out the infrastructure properly. Maybe the Sony hack scared the possibility right out of their asses and perhaps they don't want to even risk something like that happening to them.
Or maybe... they're just too lazy and, or stingy with cash to want to build out proper.
Can we say Nintendo is in the same situation as X1 when it was announced?
Im so dissapointed, hard to describe.
- price is just insane for the tech.
- controllers are so damn expensieve
- pay for online? Hmmm not that strange but what you get is meh.
- launch games or rather lack of them
PS+
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per platform monthly playable as long as you are subscribed
- $60 a year
Games with Gold
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per month per platform, many 360 titles playable on XBone with BC, playable even if you are not subscribed
- $60 a year
Switch Online
- Voice chat via smart device app (possibly paid)
- "Special offers for subscribers may include discounts on select digital games and content."
- monthly rental of 1 SNES or NES game
- ??? a year
I just don't know anymore.
A better model would be the paid service gives you access to all VC games.
I thought that eventually, a company would try to do what you said:
"pay a monthly fee to have access to our legacy library from the past 25 years. Pay an extra of XX$ to have access to a select library of our current games and get a discount for digital versions of our new releases (a la EA access)".
But no... "let's just rent them a game for a month"
PS+
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per platform monthly playable as long as you are subscribed
- $60 a year
Games with Gold
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per month per platform, many 360 titles playable on XBone with BC, playable even if you are not subscribed
- $60 a year
Switch Online
- Voice chat via smart device app (possibly paid)
- "Special offers for subscribers may include discounts on select digital games and content."
- monthly rental of 1 SNES or NES game
- ??? a year
I just don't know anymore.
No, cause they're still rentals instead of actually being able to keep the games.
Nintendo's online service also provides digital discounts.
A better model would be the paid service gives you access to all VC games.
I would be OK with having a 50%+ discount on the showcased game and then to be *really* able to keep it after the month if I buy it for that price. You don't get to keep the PS+/XBL-titles without a subscription, either.
But: there is just not enough information to go around. It's just like the assumption that Nintendo's online service will be "shitty" - how would you know? They didn't even showcase the interface or anything. It could be good, it could be bad, but we really don't know.
However, I understand that the console's launch is just 7 weeks away. So they should showcase every feature until then.
Isn't voice chat free on PS4?
Party (cross game voice chat)
At this point the reasons are irrelevant.
This shit is TOXIC for Nintendo. It generates ton of bad press, bad will, lack of confidence in Nintendo as a platform holder, risk in every digital purchase. It is costing them a ton of sales and alienating even their biggest fans.
How is it that Sony can get their fans to excitedly buy hardware with barely any games at launch meanwhile Nintendo fans have to swallow horrible platform practices to just play the Nintendo games they really want to play? Who is Nintendo gaining in terms of audience by fucking over their base? How much more money are they making?
With 10 WiiU sales, the answer is clearly noone. That is basically as bad as you can do for a video game console. At this point, it is just bad business.
Can we say Nintendo is in the same situation as X1 when it was announced?
Im so dissapointed, hard to describe.
- price is just insane for the tech.
- controllers are so damn expensieve
- pay for online? Hmmm not that strange but what you get is meh.
- launch games or rather lack of them
Zelda, Splatoon, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, new IPs, probably Xenoblade 2 etc. within the first 9 month. Yes, yes really bad, worst Nintendo console ever
Someone forgot how barebone WiiU, or XOne/PS4 first year was.
It's worth noting that the 360 games that are a part of GwG are playable on XB1 so that's technically four games.PS+
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per platform monthly playable as long as you are subscribed
- $60 a year
Games with Gold
- Voice chat
- Digital discounts
- 2 games per month per platform, many 360 titles playable on XBone with BC, playable even if you are not subscribed
- $60 a year
Switch Online
- Voice chat via smart device app (possibly paid)
- "Special offers for subscribers may include discounts on select digital games and content."
- monthly rental of 1 SNES or NES game
- ??? a year
I just don't know anymore.