What is everyone expecting the price of the new tier to be? I'm confident in and would be happy with a $30/year cost, which would be an additional $10 above the current plan. If it's above $40, I think I would likely stick to the basic tier. At $40, I would consider upgrading my plan when the N64 selection has 30 or more titles. Genesis is a non factor for me. I wouldn't mind third party systems once Nintendo covers all their bases, but for right now that's not what I'm looking for from the service.
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To be fair there were significantly less N64 games than NES/SNES titles. And anyways, volume of content means nothing if you're not going to play those games. The way I see it there are plenty of 4 player "party" titles on N64 while the SNES tends to be RPG heavy and the NES is very arcade. Who cares if it's "less games" if those games fill a gap that isn't yet filled?
Yeah, I'm probably coming over a little too negative, and I'd certainly favour a quality over quantity approach.
Although there's a bit of filler in the list I'd probably give half the games announced a go which isn't a bad hit-rate. I could perhaps nit-pick over the choice of so many games that have recently been re-made for the 3DS and Switch, but then again that's mostly because they're the good ones.
If this is indeed just the tip of the iceberg and the pricing isn't too bad - nobody seems to think they'd dare charge more than $10 a year, after all - I'll probably give it a go. Hell, maybe they'll start adding GameCube games next year?
I think it'll be somewhere in the range of $40 - $60, don't think it'll exceed $60 because that's the price of XBL Gold and PS+. The OLED Switch has very minimal improvements over the base Switch for $50 more so I think Nintendo's aim with all this is to push their products into the higher pricing tiers of Xbox and Playstation but without chasing the "most powerful console" trend.
The US price is $20/year right? That's what we're comparing it to? I don't see this as being worth 2x the amount of the current service. So I would think it's going to be somewhere around $30US/year. Which means the Australian pricing will go up to $45AU/year or $80AU/year for the family sub.
I would personally probably go for it upto around $90AU/year for the family sub, I'd seriously hesitate if it was much more than that.
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Without many basic online functions, I don't think anyone should be paying more for it than they already do, regardless of the amount of old crap they throw at it. No idea why the Switch can't even do voice chat, when the DS could do it in 2004..!
What about the elephant in the room ? Goldeneye. With Rare actively advertising Banjo through Twitter, with Microsoft on board, I assume the sticking point would be the company that holds the Bond films licence ?
It doesn't. A few pieces of software support it within their actual game and you can use a voice chat like equivalent if you download a separate mobile app on your phone, but there is no native voice chat or party system built into the Switch Online Service itself.
For some reason that other guy just wants to tell you how amazing the service is, in bold, all caps messages and say nothing else.
@YusseiWarrior3000 So it can't do voice chat. My phone can, the Switch can't.
That's like saying the Switch can toast your bread, all you need to do is buy a toaster...
Lol that is what I said. If I'm going to have to use an app, I may as well just use Discord or just call my friends. XBL in 2005 had native parties and voice chat, no excuse for that to be absent from NSO. Then you have the fact there are no servers other than for cloud based saves which you have to pay for, it is all P2P matchmaking, which causes problems with basically every online game as you are basically torrenting the match. Then there is abysmal download speeds on WiFi. Then they have the audacity to charge for it and you have fanboys telling you how great it is, when it's offering services that have been free for like two decades.
@skywake Nintendo have a greedy weakness on purpose.
If you used same account on multiple systems, there were no such thing as cross-system DLC like on other systems like Sony PS3, VITA, PS4 consoles and Xbox with Xbox Anywhere with PC in Win 10.
Sony have become more strict (greedy) again and is basically Nintendo again now with PS5.
Nintendo Switch account is linked with Wii U account for people who owned Wii U.
Pinball FX tables. 100% still have to be purchased again on Switch even when you already paid for the tables on Wii U.
PinballFX tables bought on the old Xbox 360. Transferred purchases to Xbox One, Series X and even Windows 10 at no extra cost. On top of it, Microsoft is in forefront with free game upgrades to new-gen consoles, but also free cross-system version.
Also. If you buy games like Resident Evil 7 on Xbox, you get PC version for "free". Same the other way. Buy games for PC, get Xbox version at no extra cost.
I see your points and i don't disagree with any of them.
Anyways. I can see why N64 in the new sub is a thing for you as you never owned N64. I still have around 75 Carts for my real N64, so i'm not into this. And besides, i can emulate them legally on any system since i already paid for them.
I think the new sub will be a success. Wave Race, Zelda Games and other things will attract a lot of people. Majority of Switch owners probably don't own N64 anymore, if they ever had one in the first place.
I'm not negative to the service. It's just not for me as i already own them.
Online today costs 20$ here for 12 months. The new sub will probably be 30$ for 12 months.
It's not much money anyway.
@NintendoByNature I’m still optimistic they’ll add GB (and maybe GBA?) games to the main service at a later date... I mostly only think that because it has been leaked by the same person who leaked the new-tier N64 games. The problem with that is, if Nintendo are planning on adding GB games to the current tier within the next year, I wouldn’t expect it to get a price drop. It could still drop in price if those games are added in a couple more years, at earliest. There’s also the possibility it would be added to the Expansion Pack eventually, which would make sense to me, since it’s more recent than the N64. I don’t know. I wouldn’t expect the Nintendo Switch Online service to disappear after the Nintendo Switch system is over. The service is working for Nintendo, so there is no reason for them to stop using it. So over time, they’ll just keep adding games and systems to NSO and NSO Expansion Pack. Who knows, maybe we’ll get N64 in the main subscription in a decade or so....
Why have I started typing walls of text on this thread haha! A year ago, I would applaud people for typing so much, now I’ve done it twice in this thread in 24 hours!
Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.
Spawn Wave did a video today on NSO and he was talking how where it could go, he discussed it ending up as some sort of Netflix style service in years to come.
Thinking about that, I was wondering what other 3rd party systems could come to the platform, and looking over the list of best selling consoles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles) the only options are more SEGA systems or the Turbo Grafx.
If a second SEGA console was added, which one would everyone prefer?
If this is an important part of Nintendo's strategy (NSO and continued expansion) I wonder if SEGA would be important enough for Nintendo to buy them?
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