It was announced last night that Nintendo will begin charging for their online services starting with the Switch. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make the cost worthwhile to their fans. Without the any fanfare, Nintendo revealed on their official website that they will giving subscribers access to a NES or SNES game each month. However, the big news is that the games will feature ‘newly-added online play’. While there is no detail beyond this, it is certainly an interesting announcement.
Monthly game download
Subscribers will get to download and play a Nintendo Entertainment System™ (NES) or Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ (Super NES) game (with newly-added online play) for free for a month.
At least they’re not just porting the games. Super metroid online speed running races would be dope though.
As amazing as that sound I doubt they’d make something so complicated, pretty sure they’ll just add online to games that already have multiplayer.
I hope they don’t consider “ONLINE PLAY” as simply throwing in a leader board.
Though…For what the other user said about Metroid, then I guess a leader board could work; but at the same time I would like to see some sort of actual online play.
That would be awesome. And every time you check the map, you can see the location of the other guy’s ghost & can run across it running about on occasion. It would definitely give someone like me even bigger motivation to try & beat the game as quickly as possible. It sounds complicated but they could probably pull it off if given enough development time.
I hope the cost is good I don’t wanna pay 50$ for a online service.
I dont think i will be going online… i might get my hands on Minecraft: Switch Edition and Mario and maybe some Zelda, Maybe even Splatoon 2 But i don’t want to play every month because I’m already paying 70$ every year to play online with PS Plus
This is another good move from Nintendo.All they have to do ready for launch is also have N64 and GameCube Games ready for the virtual console which would be awesome.
Zelda on its own is enough to be the Switch, cry babies who brag its also on the Wii U so what’s the point are laughable!
Being able to play Zelda anywhere,bus,train,plane,park,airport,shopping mall,car,van,hotels etc is amazing!
Awesome! That’s pretty sweet!
You see, this kind of stuff should’ve been in the actual event.
There was only so much they could go over. And the event was mainly about the console itself.
Ooh, nice!
So why are all these things not being announced in the event? lol. I know it was only an hour, but… maybe it should have been 2? And had better pacing and organization?
Okay, that’s cool.
Hang on, something is concerning me
It says “Nintendo Entertainment System™ (NES) or Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ (Super NES) game (with newly-added online play) for free for a month.”
Either I’m getting something wrong which I hope I am but doesn’t this mean that even if you’re paying for the online services you can only play the game for a month? And you will still need to buy the game after the month is over?
||Yes, most logically have to do with the added online multiplayer to these weapons, however, it would have a higher appeal if they were GCN and N64 instead…||
I don’t think so. I think that only applies to people who don’t download the game during the free period.
How is charging for online multiplayer good? Wii and wii u had it for free.
More stable servers, not sure about everyone else but I lagged to hell in Super Smash Bros and MK on WII U, but all my other consoles played perfectly fine.
I was hoping they would announce paid online because I knew that would mean they were taking online play seriously this time.
Their worth is still miniscule, online or no online. Actually this just reconfirms my thoughts that Nintendo thinks waaaaaaaaaaaaay too highly of themselves.
That’s some good spinning.
I’m not generally an online multiplayer gamer anyway. I feel a little disappointed that they will be charging a fee for online play, but revamping retro games with new features might go down very well with devoted fans. Here’s hoping that Gamecube games come to Switch. I’d also like Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast to come to switch as well.