| TheLastStarFighter said: Their goal is to create customer loyalty and generate consistent revenue, which is the same on both rewards plans and subscriptions. Just like PS+ on PS3, Nintendo will use this new rewards program as a stepping stone to a proper subscription plan next-gen. Your biggest flaw in what you are saying is "ever". No one knows for sure what Nintendo will do this year or in 3 years time. I am expecting further evolution, you are not. I think I am right, the subcription with rewards model is too lucrative for Nintendo to not consider it. |
And they can do both better without a subscription model. Your biggest flaw is thinking that a subsription model is the only or the most efficient way to achieve their goals. It's simply not, especially considering the company's phylosophy and precursers on the matter. Sony didn't make preliminary steps towards PS+ like you're suggesting Nintendo is currently doing. They just offered a subscription and made it mandatory on the PS4 for online. Nintendo is doing the polar opposite of that. A subscription only benefits those subscribed. The flexible pricing/deals model benefits everyone. It effects 100% of Nintendo console owners and works to make 100% of those owners loyal. PS+, and every subscrition based "rewards" system can never hope to achieve that level of scope and consumer reach. A subcription model for Nintendo wouldn't be an evolution. You're expecting a deviation, and you're wrong.
