Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

...and @Grumblevolcano does it again, with getting another prediction correct.

Seriously though, nice job with having another one of your predictions come true. I think it’s cool that you’ve had a decent amount of your predictions come true. For a while, I thought you were some sort of insider because of how often you’re predictions came true. I hope I’m not being weird by saying that.

Anyways, I know that it would make sense for Nintendo to include both options on the N64 NSO app, but with Nintendo being Nintendo, it’s hard to tell what they’ll do at times.

Also, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on my post above that I made a couple of days ago? 🤔

@DarthNocturnal maybe something like PS plus where you get a game or two every month?

also yea i didn't expect that price tag either.

For USA it's prices for individual is 2,5 times (49,99$) then normal yearly price and for family 2,29 times (79,99$) then normal yearly price while for Europe both only 2 times only (39,99€ and 69,99€) then normal yearly prices. And now I'm happy that I live in Europe for this.

More than I expected but it includes more than I expected. To be completely blunt, two of the four people on my Family Plan would defintiely be going for the Animal Crossing DLC. I'm not that into it myself but in a sense it's already paid for itself right there. So for me it's a reasonable value (even if not for me directly) at least for this year. And presumably this isn't the last thing included in it

Haven't seen Australian prices yet but. I'm kinda assuming it's going up to $130AU so basically up $85AU/year. Which more or less covers the cost of the DLC for those two (I'm assuming the DLC will be ~$40AU). Then I get to enjoy the N64 titles. Of course, very likely could be less than $130AU/year for the family plan

Too much. Make it like ps plus and Xbox live gold then we're talking.

That's just what I needed, more fuel for online discourde.

Hm. Well the price for the family pack here in Mexico will double up if we add the expansion. It’s not as bad as it could’ve been, but then again, it was already more expensive compared to US dollars.

I really hope it will include future DLC as well, not just the animal crossing one.

Probably most people expected prices increase be at most 1,5 times, but this was in between 2 to 2,5 times depending on where you live. :/

Looks like it's only 2X in Australia. A bit more palatable

I think Nintendo is deliberately overshooting the price to test how much money they can pull out of its customers with as little content as possible. My hope is that they are forced to steadily add content to keep people inside the Expansion Pass.

For me personally it's too little value for the price. But let's see what they'll add in the coming months.

If you factor in the DLC, it's only an additional $20 for the family plan, which is about what I expected. After the first year, though, it's either $45 or you're paying $25 per year for the DLC rather than once. So hopefully by then they will have added more stuff to make it worthwhile, but at least the first year seems good (if you want the DLC, which we do).

Here’s some math: the original NSO is $20US for a single user for a year, the expansion pass is $50US a year. So $30 more. People wanted it to be $10 BEFORE it was announced AC would be included, which costs $25. So, if we be realistic and say you most likely wouldn’t play the AC DLC for more than a year, if you only bought the Expansion Pack for one year, the AC adds $20 to the price, saving you $5 assuming you use the DLC for the whole year, which is unlikely. So yeah, it’s a bit of a ripoff, especially if you don’t have ACNH to begin with.

I honestly hate this pricing SO MUCH, because I don’t plan on buying the Expansion Pass until Majora’s Mask is added, whenever that would be. But if I buy the AC DLC before then, I would be paying $30 for a few N64 games, only for a year. I would be REBUYING the DLC even though I already have it, WHICH IS SOO STUPID. They should have an in between tier that just has N64 and Genesis games, because this sucks.

To be fair, if you have a family pass, and split the price between 8 people who all get the content (just under $4 each), it’s still an amazing deal.

Have they said how much it will cost for a single month, or can you only buy it for a year? All the prices I’ve seen online have been for a year.

@Xyphon22 It's already confirmed the only way to permanently get the DLC is to buy it outright. Via the subscription you lose access when your subscription elapses.

@Eel I also thought that it might add DLC later, because if this was all, it would only be worth it for people who like ACNH. For some reason, the first game that came to my mind was WarioWare. That seems like a game that could have DLC, and this Expansion Pack would be a cool place to put it.

Another thing I’ve been thinking about for a while (I may have already said it here but I don’t think I did) is that they might have exclusive Game Trials. Like, maybe first-party games could have a Game Trial only for those with an Expansion Pack, or the same Game Trials as normal, but they are two weeks long or something like that. There’s of course also the chance they’ll just move all Game Trials exclusively to it and not have any for normal subscribers, but I’ll stay optimistic.

Wow. ......so overpriced. I think the NSO expansion pricing may hurt Nintendo's stock. (edit: didn't do much of anything.)

I'm skipping the nso expansion at that price.

@Grumblevolcano I know. I was just saying that it's a good price for the first year at least. After that it is pretty bad unless they add more stuff.

@WoomyNNYes Same. Right now, I pay the $20/year plan just to play with friends online who don't play PC games and a couple of NES and SNES games. $50/year is too much considering I already have Sega Genesis Classics on Switch, which has all the Genesis games that interests me (to add insult, it does have online play too).

Besides, if I want the Animal Crossing DLC, I'll just buy it alone. I feel bad it's being bundled since people who just want the N64 and Genesis games, have to still pay $50 for DLC they probably won't use or don't have the game for.

Is Sonic 3 going to come to Genesis Online?

I'm sorry but thats asking waaaaay to much money, I mean dude, PS plus gives me twice of that for that price, And Xbox will even give me new games, Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo, giving us the finger as always.

I really want to play paper mario, so idk.

You know what, I think I will just stick with the emulated version of paper mario, I least I can play it that way.