I recall Nintendo spokespeople (or maybe Furukawa himself) saying that they weren't entirely pleased with their online sub numbers, but also IIRC, they've got 15M subs worldwide. Has anyone at Nintendo made a recent comment about their online services and how pleased they are with their amount of subs?
I think it's a bad service even at twenty dollars, so I don't sub. I have just decided that if I lose my 90+ hour Super Mario Odyssey save, that gives me a reason to play through it again, and if I lose my 200 hour Breath of the Wild save, well, I'm probably never touching that game again, and if I lose my 100+ hour PBA Pro Bowling sub, I'll be super-pissed, but okay, I can deal.
What bums me out is that they won't sell me old Nintendo games via the eShop on the console. I can't know this for sure, but if the reason for that is largely so they can put NES and SNES games on a slow-drip release for the online service, that sucks.
I get that it's not totally that; it's also so that they can sell a full remake of some of those games at sixty dollars (which honestly is fine with me to a large degree - the Link's Awakening remake was my favorite game of last year). Still, though, there are some games that probably aren't in the pipe for remake that I'd love to pay five to ten dollars for.