Topic: Nintendo Switch Online To Launch Tuesday, Start Charging September 25

[Khushrenada]

What's a 3DS?

Not sure, must be a typo.  Has to be talking about the 2DS....but are they still making games for those?

Yeah, sure, laugh it up, fuzzballs! Just you wait until the Direct when they spring that footage on you of Etrian Odyssey X and that Luigi's Mansion port. Then you'll be.... sorry?

[nickmitch]

Luigi's Mansion? Dang, if only Nintendo had an HD handheld that they could port GameCube games to.

[broodwars]

Luigi's Mansion? Dang, if only Nintendo had an HD handheld that they could port GameCube games to.

Wait...a console...that you could port games to that can virtually emulate previous consoles? You fool! That would never work! We'd better stick to rented updated ROMs of shitty NES games! 

Seriously, I don't get how Nintendo thinks a rented selection of 20 mostly-terrible NES games is a selling point for this service.

[Khushrenada]

Luigi's Mansion? Dang, if only Nintendo had an HD handheld that they could port GameCube games to.

Told you that you'd be sorry!

[nickmitch]

Honestly, when Luigi's Mansion 3 opened the show, I immediately thought of this thread. LOL

[broodwars]

One Direct later, and it looks like Nintendo's online service is still worthless. OK then.

[Wah]

so let me get this straight you want me to a) pay for my OWN internet (don't give me that sony and ms do it so it makes it ok bs)
b) give me a bunch of let's face it pretty dated games for free
c) i'm paying for f*cking P2P not even a dedicated server?

[Enner]

Ah, still a Splatoon 2 tax.

[Khushrenada]

Honestly, it feels like Nintendo decided they should start charging for online since free online play didn't seem to be helping them gain much in sales from that stance. But then they just sort of let the market decide what to charge. As soon as it was announced that there would be paid online, within a week people were throwing out the amount of $20 per year and then people were like, well, I guess that's not TOO bad. Did Nintendo really know a year and a half ago that $20.00 would be the price yet still had so many other details of the service undecided that they still don't even know what they special offers will be? It just seems like the internet reached a consensus of $20.00 and then Nintendo decided to just run with it to compete against the higher cost of MS and PS services.

Internet should have tried to bargain more. Maybe we could have got it down to Nintendo paying us $20.00 a year to use their voice app.

[Wah]

I would be fine with it if each game had a dedicated server, you know like EVERY sony and ms game? but no, it's still peer2peer.

[NWR_insanolord]

I would be fine with it if each game had a dedicated server, you know like EVERY sony and ms game? but no, it's still peer2peer.

Lots of PlayStation and Xbox games are peer-to-peer.

[Wah]

you know what i mean, nintendo has NO dedicated servers. It's like they aren't even trying.