@link3710 I'd imagine you will be able to upgrade your current membership like how on XB1 you can upgrade from Xbox Live Gold to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (Gold + Game Pass XB1 + Game Pass PC) though of course Nintendo wouldn't be as generous as upgrade for $1.
If I were buying an individual subscription, a SNES tier wouldn't interest me. I can play all the SNES games I want on my 3DS/SNES mini - I really don't need SNES games with that annoying forced border on my Switch.
That said, I buy a family plan and that would likely soften the blow so I'll probably end up with it anyway.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
Ideally how about this, virtual console on switch but nso nes still works as it should but gives subbers 5 games from vc free that they have access to at any time even after the sub is over. Everyone wins, non subbers can buy games subbers play all free and keep 5 (in addition they could buy normally).
@NintendoByNature I think what this means is that the price of a yearly subscription is about to take a massive hike because they're going to charge you for the online, NES games AND SNES games in addition to those
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Tiers is a good idea tho I would want to upgrade my tier. I’d like to keep my basic cheap online. I have a Snes mini. Nes mini Wii shop virtual console games. 3ds virtual console games and Wii u virtual console games and nes and Snes cartridges. Would be great for the people who haven’t experienced Snes games
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@IceClimbers I'm so happy they're going back to the older style of game design. Even happier they specifically mention dungeons! I really liked the dungeons and towns in the original game.
I, like everyone else, would love to have all the games I want available to me conveniently and for free. But of course that's unrealistic.
Nintendo is very diligent about maintaining the value of their IP. They have always resisted collections and re-releases, except under very specific and curated circumstances. Compare this to Sega, which has re-released their older library so often and at such incredible discounts that the value of, say, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is virtually negligible. Nintendo is still milking Super Mario Brothers after all this time. It's not good for us, the consumer, but it's very good for Nintendo, the company. Whether the value they maintain is an illusion or not, is another question.
Mr. Yamauchi would fully endorse this model. Wherever he is (probably hell), he's loving this era of Nintendo.
“Why do you speak of certain reversals—machinery connected wrong, for instance, as being ‘ass backwards’? I can’t understand that. Ass usually is backwards, right? You ought to be saying ‘ass forwards,’ if backwards is what you mean."
It’s whatever. I’ll pay an extra $10/yr if I can have Super Mario World, Super Metroid and Zelda Link To The Past on my Switch, and a bunch of others (naturally).
It’s not the best deal, but as a consumer I’m willing to pay that for SNES. That’s worthy of a $10 upgrade to me ($30/yr). I’ll pay another $10 for N64 ($40/yr), and even bump another $20 (to make it a full $60/yr) if they toss in GameCube. But at that point I would expect a bonus for the full package, say... GBA. Or maybe Wii with Button support mapped to classic controller.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
When people say they want Virtual Console, they don't mean they want Virtual Console. They just want the usual suspects and the romanticized version of Virtual Console.
The downfall of Virtual Console in that the lesser/niche games are not going to be monetized as well while everything else dominates the conversation. Games like EarthBound were an anomaly on the charts. Anyone would look at the lists and ask "well how do we bolster the sales of that then?" and come to the conclusion of a subscription price.
Subscriptions have their own downfalls that I'm not interested in arguing about (and from the people who just popped in, I can already tell they'll want to butt heads with me on that and shout from the rooftops they hate subscriptions), but Virtual Console also has negatives of its own from Nintendo's side.
I like owning my games, so I do prefer VC. But just given how much I play my Switch, the utility of having access to such games indefinitely for a little extra is enough to tip the scales. For any other console, I’m not interested in sub model services. And honestly, I’m not interested in it for Switch if it were anything other than VC (like actual Switch games). But for vintage games, ya. If it’s my only option of having them on Switch. Obviously I’d choose buying them if I had the option.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@Knuckles-Fajita Mr. Yamauchi was always very concerned with strict quality control, I'm not sure he'd be willing to monetize to that extent. On the other hand, he did like making money. He liked it a lot.
@EvilLucario What would you say are the downfalls of VC from Nintendo's perspective? Just curious!
“Why do you speak of certain reversals—machinery connected wrong, for instance, as being ‘ass backwards’? I can’t understand that. Ass usually is backwards, right? You ought to be saying ‘ass forwards,’ if backwards is what you mean."
@BougieBeetle So you have your usual games you want, like Mario, Zelda, Metroid. Those do well, of course. But who cares about games like Ogre Battle 64 or Strider? Not much, a fraction at best. Good games, but they don't do as well. It becomes a huge popularity contest where all those games get left behind. The return isn't as good for those games compared to the popular Nintendo games, and they make up the majority of all titles, Wii Virtual Console or Wii U or 3DS.
That's why I say that when people say they want Virtual Console, they just want Mario/Zelda/Metroid and nothing else. Obviously not everyone is like that but it is what it is.
With a subscription service, you can use quantity as a way to tip people over to subscribing to your service in addition to the same Mario/Zelda/Metroid games, as well as actually getting people to play those games in the first place they otherwise would not have.
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