Nintendo’s Shuntaro Furukawa talked a little more about Nintendo Switch Online in the Q&A segment of the company’s investors briefing. Furukawa said that “retention is critical”, and that Switch Online “contents will be enhanced throughout the year”. Furukawa didn’t clarify what these “contents” are, it is being speculated that this may be the highly rumored SNES games that may be coming to the online service. In the meantime, Furukawa said that Splatoon 2 and Smash Ultimate have been really helping the online service. Two tweets relaying the news can be seen down below.
F: Nintendo Online – retention is critical, contents will be enhanced throughout the year
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) February 1, 2019
It was driven by Splatoon 2 and then Smash Bros. Seeing increase in monthly plan
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) February 1, 2019
give us normal voice chat, normal messaging, snes & n64 games, dedicated servers, etc if you want to keep retention
I’m with you man.
SNES games will come very soon
Don’t forget Gamecube, Sega Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games.
No Cellphone needed for voice chat, Cellphone COMPLETELY optional.
Unlimited Cloud Storage.
And an Achievement System.
Yea no one can defend Nintendo this time and no “its just 20$” is not an excuse
Well they better put forth hella effort if they really want to make that retention a thing.
It’s about time they do something about Switch Online. I wonder who people subscribed before and after the release of Smash Ultimate and Splatoon 2.
*how many people subscribed
You guys already had a full year to make it atleast comply to the standard of todays online services we cant even send an invite or even a message to friends . ARE YOU SERIOUS?
People said to me “DON’T BUY TEH ONLINE SERVICE! THEY’LL NEVER FIX IT!”
Nintendo: “Oh damn, we got a lot of customers…. better improve the service!”
Sometimes showing them the green and showing some criticism goes a long way
“contents will be enhanced throughout the year” Oh boy! Vagueness is my favorite especially when it comes to this.
SNES games being added is obviously going to happen eventually.. hopefully a messaging system, and maybe real party chat. Themes too? They haven’t added anything new to that since launch. Still just black and white. If they’re going to add all of this stuff though, especially something like dedicated servers, I see them upping the price. Or just having an optional premium plan that gives you access to the SNES games, party chat, and free themes. Just seems like too much to expect for $20. The only thing I’m truly expecting this year is SNES games.
SNES are coming very soon
Prove it.
My instinct
n64 games! Messaging service! Better voice chat(without freaking phone)! Better exclusive items(we basically just got one shirt…)!
we might get a browser and/or a Netflix app one day
Bring it on baby it’s been a little stale
I hope it’s stuff to make the service more worthwhile.
Still waiting for these “special offers” they advertized… Really not worth it right now