Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

@Kermit1 Another one and a half hours based on the new error message. 🤮

@TowaHerschel7 aw man, imma go watch Malcolm in the middle then.

I'm on!!!! Nothing has changed.

@TowaHerschel7 thank you for information. And who knows what will happen, but looks like nothing happen according Kermit1.

@TowaHerschel7 I don't think we will get anything new after that maintenance

I noticed the maintenance at 11pm eastern US. That was a long one, alright. Other than what's already been mentioned, bolstering security is another possibility.

Maybe the eshop can now hold more people?

Well after a year I was finally able to get an N64 controller for this.

Originally I wasn't sure if I wanted to pay money for one of the more awkward Nintendo controllers, but thinking about how those old games play, remembering trying to play Sin and Punishment with a GCN controller on Wii, and especially trying to play Star Fox 64 on this (even moreso in handheld mode, a painful experience) convinced me. Mario Party 1 and its control stick spinning also helps, since I'm not risking my 2nd pair of joycons on nostalgia for a game this dumb.

Speaking of which, I tried one game of Mario Party 1 on the Mario board, it was basically 20 turns of being screwed over, but then I won because I got two of the three bonus stars. And even ignoring that...yeah, maybe this first game didn't hold up.

After the latest quarterly earnings, I’m wondering if this was all in preparation for that new company Nintendo Systems they are launching next year. If they are focusing on using the company for the online services then perhaps they are currently doing backend work to make the transfer over to the new team easier and quicker.

I think the maintenance may be about merging the eshop with the My Nintendo Store. See this for example:

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/The-Di...

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Splato...

DioField Chronicle isn't purchasable on the My Nintendo Store so you get the usual eshop option for purchase but with Splatoon 3 which is purchasable on the My Nintendo Store it says about buying on that instead of the eshop.

tfw all you want to do is play Mario Party 2 but can't due to a vicious combination of schoolwork, new releases and timezones.

I'll be back soon you wonderful gem of a game I promise.

THE NEXT GAME TRIAL (at least here in Europe) IS RIVER CITY GIRLS DIHIWHBWFVYWHBKJGWLHVHVWF

I'VE WANTED TO PLAY THIS FOR SO LONG BRO I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

That NSO expansion pass is still overpriced if your upgrading. My NSO sub is six months old, and the upgrade price for the NSO Expansion is only like $3 off. It's hardly a discount, and a absolute joke. (I only want the expansion to play Banjo Kazooie.) Unless I don't know how to properly see the discounted upgrade price? I'm looking on my eshop NSO membership change page.

@Fizza Are you up for playing Mario Party 2 with @ChameleonBros and myself sometime this weekend? If you're still busy or something, that's totally fine. I totally forgot about River City Girls until like last night, lol - I'm downloading the trial now!

@MarioLover92 Not free this weekend but will be next weekend if that works well for you. Don't let that stop you from playing today or tomorrow though, I'm just in the last hurdle of exams is all XD

@Fizza Ah gotcha, no worries. Best of luck on your exams, you got this!

The last games added to the NES and SNES apps were back in July. The Expansion pass has gotten a game or two a month since July. The virtual console seems to be a better deal than this. How can anyone continue to defend NSO?

@GameOtaku I don’t think many would defend NSO, but at the same time there’s no guarantee Virtual Console would be much better when a publisher could easily release these games at a higher price point across all systems instead of going through Nintendo’s channel.

@FragRed
Companies could still sell their games on other consoles store fronts as well as they can on VC. Compilations such as the Castlevania Collections tend to leave content out. The Disney Afternoon Collection still hasn’t been ported to switch either despite being on the NES originally which should’ve been obvious to port due to legacy.

As far as I’m concerned NSO is a scam and VC is the only way to go. Hopefully we will see a merger of the two so you don’t have to sub and can still buy and play classic games.

@GameOtaku You won’t see them merge and I don’t think it’s as easy for publishers to put games on other systems as well as Virtual Console. For starters Nintendo are the ones who do all the emulation work for all games on Virtual Console and NSO not the publisher. So they’d still have to then put in resources to do their own emulation to have it on other systems.

But collections like Castlevania make a lot more money for Konami because they charge such a lot more than Virtual Console would.

The Disney Afternoon Collection wouldn’t show up on Virtual Console regardless. It’s all licensed games and Disney would be the ones who’d decide if it gets put on to the Switch. Clearly they don’t care so it’s not happening.