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Nintendo Switch Online Tops 15 Million Subscribers

Nintendo Switch Online Tops 15 Million Subscribers - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2020 / 3,029 Views

Nintendo announced during their latest financial results briefing the number of paid Nintendo Switch Online subscribers have surpassed 15 million worldwide. 

With worldwide sell-through sales of the Nintendo Switch over 48 million through December 2019, that would mean nearly one-third of Switch owners have paid for Nintendo Switch Online.

"One more point to mention is the more than 15 million accounts worldwide with a paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online, and those sales occupy a certain presence within our digital sales," said said Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa.


"But while new members continue to join, there are also those who do not renew their memberships. We will continue to enhance the appeal of the service to bring more features and more fun to Nintendo Switch."

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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Eagle367 (on 31 January 2020)

Improve your damn services Ninty. I love you but you suck in this department. What are we paying you for?

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Vertigo-X Eagle367 (on 01 February 2020)

You get what you pay for, I suppose. Remind me again: is it $20 per year versus $50+ for XBL/PS+?

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Jranation (on 31 January 2020)

Most likely wont renew next year. I dont expect to be still playing splatoon by then. Unless the online for Animal Crossing is addicting.

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OTBWY (on 31 January 2020)

Still a member, but they need to step up! Get more games on the SNES and NES service and ffs please add GB, GBC and GBA.

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JWeinCom OTBWY (on 31 January 2020)

N64 is the one I want the most. I own most of the classic games I want in some form or another, but N64 has titles where online multiplayer would actually be a draw for me.

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JWeinCom OTBWY (on 01 February 2020)

Hate to break it to you, but I doubt Tiny Toons will ever make it. Too many licensing issues with old properties like that, so unless it was a really big game, they're probably not going to bother. I loved the Game Boy version though. Wish I still had it lying around.

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gord352 (on 03 February 2020)

The online user base only being 1/3 of the total Switches out there isn't great - especially if they have people already not renewing. I think this proves they really need to add more to the service other than just cloud saves, NES/SNES games and Tetris 99. It needs to run more efficiently (how they haven't sorted this out yet is beyond me!) and add N64 games on there as well as trophies. I don't personally care about the latter but many others do care about getting online achievements.

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Zenos (on 31 January 2020)

I tried it for a while and got Smash Ultimate's online achievements, but since I rarely play multiplayer titles I didn't go back to it.

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Eagle367 Zenos (on 31 January 2020)

I only play smm2 online and I guess a large chunk of people either play smash, smm2 or Mario Kart

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JWeinCom Zenos (on 02 February 2020)

Well that's a fairly sensible decision.

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