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Furukawa: Nintendo Switch Online has reached 8 million subscribers
- Thread starter Atheerios
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Its cheap enough where people couldn't give a damn about spending cash to play online. Its gonna be even higher by next with Pokemon and AC.
Dont get why its shocking. Its dirt cheap, especially on a family plan, and particular games like Splatoon are gimped without it.
Its great news that there are 8 million subs but that doesnt mean its an amazing service at all. Hopefully Nintendo can take a deep look at it and improve it more for the future.
Its great news that there are 8 million subs but that doesnt mean its an amazing service at all. Hopefully Nintendo can take a deep look at it and improve it more for the future.
That's tragic.
Had to sub to play Smash online, but impossibly annoyed that I'm being forced to pay for this.
Had to sub to play Smash online, but impossibly annoyed that I'm being forced to pay for this.
A quarter of consoles sold having a subscription is mind boggling with it really not offering that much. A cheap fee for online play seems to be doing great, hope Sony and Microsoft take notice of the high quick uptake and have a cheaper online-play-only option for their next gen subs.
This.
I'm buying lots of games but it's not really worth subscribing for me.
I remember seeing some people say they wouldn't pay for it to "teach Nintendo a lesson" so uhhhhh good luck with that.
They must have 3m in Japan alone with Splatoon's popularity there.
You'll have your Nintendo Switch Online and be happy with it.
It's really the only way to do it. If they add SNES games as well, for $4.30 a year? Hard to complain.
But you weren't forced. You made the decision to pay. Welcome to the club.
Really? What's the rate for PS+/Gold? 25% doesn't sound that high...
I don't think either achieved this much penetration just three months after launch.
That is a very good number for Nintendo. This is a new service and 8 mil early on is not bad at all.
I have some hope that they understand the service has created complaints, based on their recent hirings and on the Nikkei report earlier this morning.
Absolutely no way their services get cheaper. People are already happy to pay $60/yr for those services. The only thing that could lower that price by like maybe $10 is dropping the monthly games, but neither will do that now that it's expected of both. Even if they did, for years, people had been paying Microsoft $60/yr for online multiplayer without monthly games.
Nintendo needs to incorporate social features into their service to make it wholly justifiable. The Wii U and 3DS were built around being social hubs at no cost to the user.
this is the same company that thought they should make a phone app to voice chat on their console.
Been saying this for a while, but despite the comparatively anemic offerings compared to the competition, NSO always had the benefit of being really goddamn cheap. To this day I still wish PS4 and XBO could offer a "lite" subscription service that's used exclusively for online play if we're still forced to live in this pretty shitty reality where companies need to charge for online functions.
I have 6 friends in my Nintendo online family. I pay for everyone because $35 is dirt cheap & it lets me smash with them whenever I want. There are probably plenty of people just like me that are counted in that number but we only represent $35/yr rather than $120.
That explains why Nintendo doesn't feel an urgency to add highly requested features to the service. Might not add any anything really cool outside of NES games until the year anniversary comes around.
See you in September SNES games....
See you in September SNES games....
you have to also remember switch online is significantly cheaper
For some reason I joined a family plan with some Era posters here but I'm still being charged monthly.
I don't understand the surprise tbh
we can shit on their online service as a general critique of what it offers and still know full well people are gonna buy it because it's cheap and you need it to play online
we can shit on their online service as a general critique of what it offers and still know full well people are gonna buy it because it's cheap and you need it to play online
Not surprised its super cheap. I have it literally for the NES games I have never and probably won't ever actually use it for online multiplayer.
