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Nintendo Switch paid online coming 2018 ($19.99 a year, Dr Mario w/ online play)
- Thread starter jmizzal
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Im only concerned for the quality of the online and the hassle of voice chat.
Mario Kart has some serious issues but Arms runs pretty great. I dont want that inconsistency if im paying 20 a year.
Maybe they make 2 player simultaneously
SolidChamp
Banned
Just launch your VC and let me give you my fucking money for Paper Mario N64.
Ha that makes sense now. Thanks.
loli pantsu
Member
The way I see it, the Nintendo execs probably realised that they would never be able to create a proprietary communication service that can rival what phone companies already have in place BUT they didn't want to lost complete control and let them take all the $$$. Hence the crazy decision to use a phone app.
Burning Justice
the superior princess
Really hope that all VC games have online play, not just the ones included with this. Would love to play some of the older Mario Karts and Mario Parties online, among other games.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
They gon have to work on that even the new mario parties dont have online
I can live without online, if I got this it'd be for the "Nintendo Channel" thing. But the whole "we're starting with NES" sounds like code for "it will be eons until the games you want to play become available". Their VC history doesn't exactly disprove this >_> But yeah if the online side isn't up to snuff and the 'freebies' aren't either then... ya people should avoid.
Japanmanx3
Member
Perfect.
MiamiWesker
Member
I don't get where you guys think this is going to end up with 100s of free games and GC games. I would be shocked if we get 20 free games the first year and if it's something other than NES games.
Nintendo told IGN in the other thread that it's only NES games for now, and maybe they'll add SNES games later.
MiamiWesker
Member
Nintendo history is filled with them being very slow witch VC. I don't think this free library is going to be any good for a long long long time.
Booker.DeWitt
Member
I am in
Silent_Ocarina
Member
Price is good, but Nintendo can do so much more with their catalog of games. Constantly drip feeding the same NES or SNES games to us for generations is stupid. Their service would actually be competitive if their downloadable catalog was as robust as, well, Netflix's.
RadarScope1
Member
Potentially super awesome if they get the games up on the service. If it's just adding a couple games a month then it won't be worth it and people aren't going to ever invest if they don't come out of the gate swinging with great content. People don't want to wait. We've been waiting for a decade with the VC.
I wanted to see if the servers got better after the subscription launched, but now that it got delayed I'll already have Mario Kart, Arms, Splatoon and hopefully Monster Hunter before i can see whether the service improves or not. Well then...at least the price is alright. Don't really care for most NES games though.
ginger ninja
Banned
Everything seems good except the using smartphone app for voice and chat which seems like an ironic metaphor about Nintendo's ecosystem.
Use an app on smartphone to chat with your friends while you game, so you don't have to use your smartphone to chat with your friends while you game.
Use an app on smartphone to chat with your friends while you game, so you don't have to use your smartphone to chat with your friends while you game.
They're calling this the "Classic Games Selection." I think it's separate from VC. VC might actually have some good stuff from a variety of systems, but the CGS they're using as incentive to subscribe is just online-enhanced NES games for the time being (albeit with unlimited access for the duration of the sub).
Leona Lewis
Banned
Is this end of VC as we know it?
Hopefully it isn't tied to this subscription service.
Hopefully it isn't tied to this subscription service.
MiamiWesker
Member
Right, but even in the past they were so slow with VC. I never uderstood it. We should have it now, what's the hold up.
Someone made the Netflix comparison in the other thread and it was dumb there too because the service will never reach that point. Netflix has thousands of movie available right now while Nintendo is going to bat with 3 games everyone has played already. And it's not even going to be ready until 2018.
No one should even mention Netflix because it just makes Nintendo extraordinarily cheap by comparison. Even the Xbox Game Pass makes this look bad.
It's cool that they're going to do a group of games. Given how they handle the rotation in Splatoon, I was thinking that Nintendo would just constantly rotate one game, to make sure there is always a player base. Not expecting a huge set of games in the library (it's still only $2 per month), but it'll be a nice little extra to play around with.
Jupiter_Shrooms
Member
$20 sounds reasonable to me. And it's likely this will help justify/fund the free updates to Splatoon 2 and Arms.
I felt almost guilty for getting 700 hours of enjoyment from the first splatoon
I felt almost guilty for getting 700 hours of enjoyment from the first splatoon
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Shit I just thought about it, if monster hunter comes west I can enjoy online hunts through 2018 with my sister for free.
BassForever
Member
$20 and free old games with added online play in a netflix style?
Damn Nintendo went hard in the paint
Damn Nintendo went hard in the paint
I seriously doubt we see Monster Hunter in the west until Spring/Summer 2018 and probably not before this launches. I'm guessing they will want a big title to launch with their pay service.
Best case scenario.
Uhh, that Mario Bros mode bruh.
I don't know how much fun that would be online, but I had a blast with my siblings and cousins growing up.
Gaiaknight
Member
what issues does mario kart have its been flawless for me on a wired connection i have never dropped a game.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Well generations is already here and they only need to get the extra content translated. I doubt it would be their big multiplayer game to push the service.
tiebreaker
Member
Calling this a VC games Netflix style would probably get everyone's hope very high when what we know so far has been only for a selection of NES games with added online features.
Yeah...lol
Theres gonna be a "backlash" at launch when people realize what theyre saying
I think in the past they dragged things out in an attempt to pad out dry months, of which there were many on the WiiU. The Switch might have a rosier release forecast, though, so maybe they'll just say screw it and grow the VC more quickly.
Yeah... It's weird. Was the OP different at the beginning? The first posts in this thread are all rather negative and I was like WTF?
20bucks per year is a great price, free access until 2018 is nice as well and always having access to the games instead of it being a 30 day trial period.
Its pretty much everything people hoped for when we got the first details about it. Guess some will never be satisfied.
sleepnaught
Member
Price is good, but does that mean no VC til 2018? Or just the subscription based titles?
RandomExpletive
Member
Hopefully we'll see a lot of great games on the VC service, but so far its great to hear they went in the desired direction from their initial reveal.
$20 is a yearly price that I am completely fine with
$20 is a yearly price that I am completely fine with