Nintendo Plans to 'Continue to Enhance' Switch Online to Attract More Users - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2019 / 3,198 Views
The Nintendo Switch Online paid subscription service has so far been a success for Nintendo. However, the company wants to keep enhancing the service to help attract more users.
"September marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of Nintendo Switch Online. Global membership numbers are increasing steadily this fiscal year," said Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa in Nintendo's financial results breifing for the second quarter for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020.
"We have previously discussed out the importance of expanding the Nintendo Switch Online service in ways that appeal to consumers. Here are the services and benefits added since the launch of Nintendo Switch Online last year. Going forward, we will continue to enhance service content to encourage owners of the Nintendo Switch system or Nintendo Switch Lite system to try the service and see its appeal first-hand, so they will join and maintain a subscription."
Nintendo recently expanded the library of classic games available to play for subscribers by adding SNES games.
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Bring out more SNES games and more classic NES games. The ones I particularly want to see the most are RPGs and adventures: Terranigma, Illusion of Time, Soul Blazer, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 4, and 6, Secret of Evermore.
Your comment illustrates something that I've noticed about switch online - people basically view it as a game subscription service. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but basically nobody talks much about the online play aspect. I imagine that's because it is so inferior to Xbox live and PlayStation Plus.
I dunno... Do you hear people talking about the online play aspect of PSPlus or XBox Live Gold? Cause I can't really recall that happening since around the time Sony first began to charge for it. I don't think it has much to do with the quality (granting that it is inferior). I think it's just that it's kind of such a basic feature of an online service that there's not much to say about it.
I don't disagree with you, except that people definitely did talk about the online play aspects of Nintendo service before and just after lunch, when they complained about it.
but, yeah, you're probably right. There really just isn't much to say about that anymore, online play just is what it is.
It has been over 2 months now since there was any games added to either console emulated on it, either SNES or NES haven't got any other games since the drop of the initial pack of 20 SNES games, what is going on?
.... In other news, I've hacked my OG Switch and put every Rom on there lol, kinda great playing the PSP version of Tekken on the Switch, runs a charm, that machine is not lacking the power to be doing up to the GC in Virtual console.
Dedicated servers would be the best to attract competitive gamers... Mario Maker is sometimes unplayable with other players...
If Nintendo would just give us a free solid Indie game, no strings attached every quarter Nintendo online would be totally worth it.
Since I don't play many MP focused games I don't subscribe to it currently. Perhaps if they offered exclusive discounts on Nintendo store games I could consider it, but as it stands it lacks quite a lot of features.
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