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MrWayne on 20 September 2018
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routsounmanman said:
MrWayne said:

Can you elaborate on that? It's not like Console manufacturer are the only ones who have to pay for their servers.

There's exactly one reason why Sony and Nintendo charging money for cloud saves and it's exactly the same reason why they charging money for online play.
BECAUSE THEY CAN

So just because Microsoft is a giant corporation with the ability to bleed money and offer free services to you, Sony and especially Nintendo should do the same? 

Just to be clear, I am not defending Nintendo here, there should be a grace period of 1-6 months, but they don't have to give you anything for free. They are a company in it to make money, and they have no other business venue, other than video games. Basic concepts.

Look at my replies to spokenTruth, he had a similar point.

SpokenTruth said:
MrWayne said:

So is Nintendo's neglected online infrastructure the justification for their poor service?

Let's go back  to where you started.  Free cloud saves without a paid subscription.  Sony doesn't offer this either so why are you calling Nintendo's online service trash for the very same thing that Sony does....or is it trash too?

Again, MS owns data centers all over the world NOT because of Xbox Live but because of their existing cloud services such as Azure (do you even know what Azure is?).  Nintendo is not going to invest billions into building up data centers all over the world just so you can have free cloud saves without a subscription.

keeping cloud saves behind a paywall is a bad service regardless of whether sony does it or nintendo. Why did you mention sony? Did you try to brand me as a sony fanboy?

Also, why are you still pretending that cloud save cost billions of dollars and only a huge company like Microsoft can do it for free? I've given you examples for companies that are as big or smaller than Nintendo and still offer cloud saves for free.

Your point against Valve was also weird, "Valve is damn near nothing but a service company anyway. And they get paid via advertising." What? Valves main business is the same as Nintendo's, selling games on their platform, they're even getting the same 30% share from 3rd party games.

Ultimately the reason why Nintendo keeps cloud saves behind a paywall doesn't even matter, it's a worse service compared to many of their competitors.