Nintendo hasn’t said much about the Nintendo Switch Online service, which is supposed to launch next month. Well, Nintendo has decided to confirm that the online service will launch in “the second half of September”. Nintendo has yet to provide an exact release date, and there are still some NES games releasing with the service that Nintendo hasn’t revealed yet. We’ve included their official tweet down below.
#NintendoSwitchOnline will launch in the second half of September. The service provides access to online play & Save Data Cloud backup in compatible games and a growing library of NES titles with added online play.https://t.co/74Hzxk9spt pic.twitter.com/JtNgmjnilE
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 10, 2018
Two weeks later-
Nintendo: Nintendo Switch Online launches in the final 15% of the third quarter of the sixth eighth of September.
Announced during a mini direct focusing on Online Service.
Wait, what? Cloud data COMPATIBLE games?! Why isn’t this a system-feature rather than a game specific feature? How hard can it be to make the system look for .sav files(or whatever) and back those up? It better just be compatible with ever single game day one.
Or what? What will you do? It’s not like Nintendo owes you anything…
It’s up to each 3rd party developer to decide if they want to enable cloud saving or not.
I’m pretty sure every 1st party titles will be, but for the rest of them Nintendo is not to blame.
I’m not threatening them. I just express what I deem fair for a backup-function locked behind a subscription with no free substitution. I can’t remember them saying “compatible games” before now. Cheap move to just announce it a month and a half before launch, unless I’m wrong here. But still — if they’re forcing us to pay for backuping games, at least let us back up all our games. It’s not about that they owe me, but it’s about them being customerfriendly.
Oh & they’ve been having that compatible bullshit. They just didn’t say it outright & left you having to go to the website & read the fine print to find out about it.
That’s just so… friggin’ BS! How can’t this just be a system feature?
i can respond to that.
Nintendo: Hello, we like money”mr krabs parody”
I really don’t like the sound of save data compatible games
It could be that they are just factoring in previously released Switch games that need to be updated to be compatible.
Either that or it’s going to be based off the whim of the dev to implement the feature…. much like video capture :/
Why its not that bad.
I just want my $20 a year subscription to their “Legacy Games” and I rather hope that it expands to SNES, N64 and GBA games sometime in the future.
I hope this service is worth something to paid for. I hope we get a friend messaging for this. Who else is going for the 20$ a year?.
If you’re not willing to pay 20$/year for such a service, then it’s not Nintendo who’s greedy.
The concurrence is way pricier for not so much more.
Yet the concurrents let me backup my savefiles on a hdd or on a usb key for free…
Yeah, at least Sony and MS don’t force you to pay for backing up save files.
Good point.
nintendo get off your lazy fucking ass and tell us all the details not a small portion were a month away from launch and the consumer deserves to know what were getting ourselves into.
First of all, I have no idea what that has to do with ‘lazy’ in the slightest. It is not like there is any kind of notable work involved in telling something to customers nowadays…
Secondly, why is everyone so sure that they didn’t tell us everything already? It is just 20$ a year, I don’t expect there to be anything more at this point at all.
The only thing I am pretty sure we are getting at some point is more retro games (newer than nes) because only getting nes games seems a bit weird, especially with them being online playable which only really benefits games from the snes era and newer, in my opinion at least…
But even for that, I am not so sure they would talk about it before the service starts.
Why does Nintendo struggle so much with online
They seem to wanna regulate it.
“This thing launches next month at an unspecified date, we delayed paid online because that’s apparently possible, and we still have little info to tell you at this time other than a paid account is mandatory if you value your save files. But look, retro games have online now!”
Does that sound about right?
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It’s bs that the switch online only has nes titles at launch when the wii shop had nes, snes, and 64 games at its launch .
so between the 16-30 of spet. Why has Nintendo NOT SAID A FINAL DATE ON THIS AS ITS STILL HOLDING UP MY PLANS
‘I meant Sept.
plus I wonder want the card for online will look like as I will be heading to Game as SOON AS NINTENDO SAYS A NUMBER of 16 to 30 (I have no issues with the £17.99 price tag for a whole year).
So that’s a hard no on us getting another Direct in August that will cover it. I know it’s just another month & a half away but yay! More waiting! If Nintendo could charge us for waiting, they’d make even more money. (Square Enix, too. *cough*FFXV&KH3*cough*)
there might still be another direct in August. Will the paid online trigger a firmware update ? Hence the lack of date to it (bar 16 to 30 Sept)
All I want to know is, why is there still no internet browser? Will there EVER be one? I used to use the internet browser on my Wii U on a daily basis. But then it suddenly stopped working unless I’m in the same room. WHY? Even after re-connecting it to the internet, it STILL won’t work when I walk out of my bedroom. Games either. Makes no sense.
The answer is simple: security.