BREAKING: Club Nintendo Discontinuation Schedule Announced!!!

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haqqaton said:

spemanig said:

I'm 99% sure it has nothing to do with a paid subscription. Nintendo forshadowed this last year. No one's paying for online on a Nintendo system.

Never? Even if they get an infrastructure like LIVE for the next gen (when it would start being paid)?

Hmn.. This could be very expensive for them to keep running without subscriptions. But hey, I know almost nothing from their business so...  let it be FREE.  =)

Nintendo doesn't focus on online that much, at least compare to the rest. I think its main applications that need a good online infrastructure are:

-WiiU games: Mario Kart 8, Smash U, Splatoon (for now let's assume this one)...

-3DS games: Pokemon games, Smash 3DS...

- Sharing maps and stages: Mario Maker, Mario vs DK...

-Miiverse

-The online store

-Flipnote Studios

-Other apps: Youtube, Crunchyroll Netflix...

 

Just compare the demand of XBox life or PS Network in the online multiplayer with the Nintendo Network, it's light and day. Unless somehow its internet services start getting as big as the other two, we won't see paid online from Nintendo anytime soon.