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@robchacot Exactly my position. I've been on this site for years and years and I actually made an account today because of how ridiculous the pricing is.

Best deal, pick up the mini consoles a few months after they go on sale. You get a whole new console, controllers and games you can keep. All emulated just like this service. Get it on sale and that's even better. I've seen the Genesis for as little as $35.00.

@Mattock1987 Why are people considered whiney because they recognize a bad deal. It's perfectly fine to be someone who was hoping for a good deal and ends up seeing a crappy deal. It's a bummer, but I can promise you we won't lose sleep over Nintendo's greed. I can only speak for myself, but it's not about the money, it's about offering a pretty crappy service and wanting a lot for it. After today, I'll move on and this "expansion" will be out of sight out of mind. No worries.

@Duncanballs As someone earlier mentioned... I wonder if everyone on a family plan would get the AC expansion or only the primary. If you were a family or group that all played AC (and they all got it) then this would indeed be a good deal. If only the primary gets it, then not so much.

@westman98 Totally agree that what they tried to do was almost criminal, but that's marketing. Sadly, I'm in marketing so I see this all to often. Personal opinion, I think Nintendo's service is shoddy at best and I think this ask is a bit over the top, which leads me to think they will play the superiority card at some point and raise the base sub to force people into it. If this doesn't go well they will be too stubborn to back off and probably double down thinking they know best. Just a feeling.

@westman98 I'm not sure you get what I was saying, I was only referring to the fact that MS did it to make the next tier higher pricing more palatable. Ie.. they were inflating one price to make you go hey look at this great deal that is more expensive, and therefor push you into the higher tier. My whole comment was, how long before Nintendo does exactly that. In context of that it would be exactly the same.

@DennisNOR I think there is the difference between you and most people here. Most it seems don't think it was already cheap. I think most already thought it was a barely adequate service. Hence why it was "cheap" compared to it's competition. Now that it's the same or more than the competition you have to compare apples to apples and it doesn't hold up well.

So, how long before the raise the regular yearly price, to make the "expansion" price more palatable. Once they see the backlash on this, you have to think they might try it. Ala Microsoft and double the yearly gold membership only to find out people where not having it.

There are a lot of people who don't play Animal Crossing so it's pretty much moot point to have it packaged up front. $50 a year is a big ask for a very shoddy service. If it were comparable to the other console services I would agree. Lets all be honest and say the NSO was never very good, and it's just less bang for the buck now.

So my family plan would go from $35 to $80? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha... No. I'll pass.