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Nintendo Switch Online: New Info (Cloud Saves, 20 NES games, Family Plan)
- Thread starter Atheerios
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This will never happen in a million years. You'll get Urban Champion, like everyone else. Not Famicom Tantei Club.
This is garbage.
I'm not at all surprised that it's garbage, but it's still garbage.
I know Steam spoils me, I know, but it's still almost insulting the degree to which other services fail to compete. Of course the problem is that there is no competition, every console is a closed, monopolistic box.
Closed, monopolistic ecosystems always lead to the consumer getting screwed.
I'm not at all surprised that it's garbage, but it's still garbage.
I know Steam spoils me, I know, but it's still almost insulting the degree to which other services fail to compete. Of course the problem is that there is no competition, every console is a closed, monopolistic box.
Closed, monopolistic ecosystems always lead to the consumer getting screwed.
Thanks for posting this for clarification.
I'll probably just stay subscribed for the full year at £18.
So I have a question. A question that is completely separate to the cloud saves issue but is in response to many comments in this thread.
Do people not like NES games any more? Are they not still classics? Why is there not more excitement when there was loads for the NES Classic?
Do people not like NES games any more? Are they not still classics? Why is there not more excitement when there was loads for the NES Classic?
He likes collecting the badges on arms and playing with me so that wouldn't really work.
It's cheap enough, but still isn't exactly great.
But the developers and folks working behind the scenes say Nintendo can't do any of those things you say, lol, including FailOverflow.
Was thinking Fire Emblem, actually. Also never say never. Earthbound Zero exists.
There are very few console multiplayer shooters that are specifically designed around voice chat, and I doubt that CS:GO or Destiny 2 will be coming to switch.
I'm confused. Nintendo flat out says this service will have NES games added for free when they announced this service, and there's multiple posts complaining it's not GameCube games.
Who ever said GameCube games?
Who ever said GameCube games?
Only 20€ for one account with only a bunch of roms throw in...
And I'm pretty sure you can use backups with PS4, cloud saves is the only way with Switch and costs money.
That would be ace!
That's cool and Splatoon is pretty genius when it comes to non-verbal communication.
But still: Offering this option isn't hard.
Nintendo may want to restrict voice chat to keep kids save. I respect that.
And yet offering the option isn't hard. There are kid accounts for a reason. Restrict all this online stuff on those accounts.
I do think too many people are sleeping on the classic games element.
Included in the subscription we have these classic games, with added online features, all for no extra cost, with more to be added regularly including SNES and probably more consoles.
That's huge and would have been worth the price alone in my view. It's pretty much what we've wanted for a long time, just wish it didn't have the dripfeed, but I get why.
Included in the subscription we have these classic games, with added online features, all for no extra cost, with more to be added regularly including SNES and probably more consoles.
That's huge and would have been worth the price alone in my view. It's pretty much what we've wanted for a long time, just wish it didn't have the dripfeed, but I get why.
That has never been a problem with any other mp games. You have people going rank one on different games without talking at all.
Locking voice chat only satisfies you while having voice chat with mute function can satisfy a lot more people.
Look at the games. There are better multiplayer games for the NES. Online co-op Contra, Battletoads, River City Ransom, Double Dragon, Life Force, TMNT would be better than fucking Ice Climbers. (I know there are fans of Ice Climbers. Shut up.)
Teamwork-based games being designed without communication in mind are fundamentally flawed. If you do not like voice chat, then online gaming isn't for you. Don't make millions of people suffer because of it.
Only mildly interested right now.
When there are SNES games with online elements I'll be in for sure.
When there are SNES games with online elements I'll be in for sure.
I don't trust Nintendo regarding this, knowing how they handled VC in the last years. I feel like they will add some NES games and then just forget about it.
Did they confirm SNES? I know they spoke of it in the past, but the new info clearly talks about NES titles.
Not really that easy, no. ATM an account can only be used on one console at a time. Not sure if I remember correctly, but you have to delete the account from one switch to be able to enable it on another. Might be wrong here though.
Could also mean that, but the way it's put, I have hope that they streamlined that process a little.
I just want to play SNES, Genesis, TG-16 and more old stuff. All they give away is those NES games that they throw around all the time. They pull this shit every gen.
NES games don't have value in 2018, especially since emulation is widespread.
There's a mountain of licensing issues there. I imagine they'd be able to get some, but don't forget that licensing is a thing. Just because they existed on the NES doesn't mean Nintendo can put them on the service outright.
They've never just "forgotten about it"
Wait. How many people can play online on one console with ONE paid PSN subscription? Sony added some kind of 7 Family members thingy too since firmware 5.0.0.
But I don't know if that includes online play or just managerial stuff.
Nintendo is 35 for up to 7 people. I do agree that Nintendo should have an backup save app on the console itself.
So... I feel like I'm being overtly political on this topic, but I have to say I find anyone questioning the value of this to be really stretching... It's 40 cents a week. You get automated game save back-ups, 20 online-enabled games that a VC release would have cost you probably $2 at minimum, and (hopefully) an improved online performance. I mean, I'm not exactly cheering from the stands, but that all seems pretty reasonable.
Game chat, yes. Bitching about that is perfectly reasonable, but that's almost a separate topic from this service given the methodology isn't changing.
Game chat, yes. Bitching about that is perfectly reasonable, but that's almost a separate topic from this service given the methodology isn't changing.
This doesn't actually fix any of your issues with voice chat, muting people does however. Nintendo isn't promising any of that, they're just promising if you ever did want to talk to your friends it'd be a pain in the ass.
Earthbound Beginnings was already translated, though. I doubt they'll make a brand new translation for old classic games that don't have them already.
Okay but The Legend of Zelda, SMB1+3. We can only imagine that Metroid will get in there too at some point. 2/3 of a NES Classic for £18 (a year) seems like a pretty sweet deal, especially as they'll add more games.
What? Lol. People on forums are constantly asking for VC and suddenly these classic games have no value? And these nes games also have added online play.
But that was a game localised for years before, but that was shelved for some reasons IIRC.
The money that they make from this goes towards the funding of a new F-Zero title, Metroid Prime 5, Waverace Switch and Mother 3 localisation.
Cough up Era.
My issue with voice chat is that it's the default. Without it being the default, games will have to be designed around that. And thus make voice chat unnecessary.
Muting does not solve that. Games being designed without voice chat in mind at all does.
You could already share games between accounts since day one. It works different than the PS3/4. You select a game and it asks you who wants to play. You can then select your account, your wife's account or your daughter's account.
With a Sony console you have to logout of said account and log into the other account and select the game you want to play.
The cost is 20€/year, I don't see how you can extract the no extra cost part.
'Online play' of a friend taking over the game and you having to watch and not be able to chat without a phone in your lap.
Because it's part of a wider thing. It's not an extra thing like how for a while you needed Xbox Live Gold and then could get Netflix which also required payment
No, only the "primary" account's games can be played on a switch. We have a switch each, not one we share.
It's part of what you're paying, thanks god there's no extra cost for that.
My daughter has a child account linked to mine that she plays Splatoon online with.
She's matched with other players who play the same head down paint the floor style game. She's level 20.
Whereas I am matched with other aggressive, run straight in for the kill players and I'm around level 30.
It looks as if I'm going to have to pay for the family account even though my daughter doesn't really have a big interest in online or NES games.
Unless of course the child accounts work the same way as they do now - fingers crossed - allowing kids to have a separate online profile on one machine.
If they had an on-demand 'Netflix for classic Nintendo' library, where you could go all you can eat for games up to say, Gamecube era as long as you're subscribed it would be wonderful.
This is just pointless.
This is just pointless.