| RolStoppable said: They'll use that money to make smartphone games. |
That, as well as more environmentally friendly accessories.
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Slownenberg said:
Umm I'd say like 95% of Splatoon's worth is in online play. Mario Kart and Smash have much more utility offline. So Splatoon is very dependent on online (smart by nintendo), Smash is HUGE online since its an esports type of game, and Mario Kart I'm sure gets a good amount of online usage though probably a lot less than the other two. And obviously there's a bunch more online games. By end of the year there will be like 7.5 million Splatoon owners, for those 7.5 million people there will be basically no reason to own Splatoon if they don't have Switch Online. Sure some of them don't play anymore but still I'd say by end of year Splatoon alone will mean like 5 million people get the online service. Smash by itself will probably convince at least a couple more million to get online in December/January who otherwise wouldn't get it yet. A couple things to remember: It's only $20 a year! That is nothing. I'm sure a lot of people who say now they aren't gonna get it are at some point gonna want to play Splatoon in the future, or are gonna want to play some Mario Kart or Smash or check out the NES games with online functionality or play sports games online or a ton of other games online in the future and they'll be like well for $20 sure what the hell. If it was like $60 it'd be different, as you could buy a full priced game for that, but $20 is easily an impulse buy cuz you feel like playing online some night so ya figure ya why not. Yeah there are 20 million owners now, and I doubt half of Switch owners will buy the online service, at least not at any given time, but in 6 months there will be about 30 million Switch owners, in 16 months there will likely be just under 50 million Switch owners. So there aren't gonna be 10 million Online subscribers this month, but in 6 months there might be that many or more and end of next year there will wayyyy more than that.
Eventually this will probably bring Nintendo mid-hundreds of millions of dollars revenue per year, and low-hundreds of millions of dollars profit yearly, since they'll have extra costs of running the service like more servers and people working on bringing more NES and other older games to the service with online functionality. |
We'll, I guess I know why Splatoon never appealed to me. I put in a handful of hours, but never played online. I pretty much thought it sucked.
As for the user base growing, you're right, of course. And I'm sure you're also right that that $20 price tag will help a lot. The thing is though, a larger percentage of Ninty's user base is young kids (compared to XB and PS), for whom any amount of money (that needs to be paid by credit or debit card) is not an impulse buy.
I heavily doubt Nintendo will reach 10 million subscribers. I believe in 3-5 million this year. Just too many don't care for online that much on Switch.
| VAMatt said: Also, I doubt that half of switch owners will pay for the online service. I certainly won't. Nintendo just doesn't have as many of the traditionally online games. They have Mario Kart, Splatoon, and smash. I don't know about smash so much, but Splatoon and Mario Kart can be enjoyed quite a bit without online play. I played the hell out of Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, and almost never played online. I'm certainly not the only person. |
and fortnite, mario tennis, paladins, warframe, doom, starlink, fifa, arms... the online offering of the switch is expending lately...
Considering how cheap it is, family bundles and being able to pay for some of it with nintendo points. I doubt it'll be a huge money maker for them at the start.
I hope that it's not implemented in a way that's intrusive; like an extra loading screen or sign-in form needed to fill out every time you launch a game with online. But really though, it's cheap. It's not going to break the bank for anyone, but with so many subscriptions Nintendo will be making a ton of money.
It's hard to justify being upset about this when the competition has been doing it for years. It's when Nintendo inevitably raises the price that will really be upsetting. It would be like "Oh, people didn't mind paying $4 per month? Well what about $8 dollars? We could double our revenue!"
It depends if they all choose 1 year. Maybe some people want to just try it out for 3 months
Pocky Lover Boy!
Nintendo gonna make a crapton of money,thats about it. We'll see what that money goes towards. INB4 its to help 3DS stay alive
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