Nintendo going mobile was NOT their most important announcement.

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spemanig said:

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It would when the discounts you could get are incremental. A bit like a Playstation sale with or without Plus discounts. You lure them in for free, show them how much they are NOT saving by not paying a monthly/yearly fee, and BAM... They're hooked! 😄

I don't think Nintendo are doing that. Expecially not with the image they want to keep for parents. Nintendo is a toy. You don't sell your toys on a susbcription. Like I said, they're going more Steam than PS Plus. It's more Nintendo like. They'll make plenty money.

PS Plus is good for maintaining a constant stream of revenue. A free rewards system like the one they're likely to do is good for organically raising attach rate. Rewarding people who buy more games with cheaper ways to buy more games creates the "Steam problem," where your customer kind of becomes addicted to the idea of having more games just for the sake of having them. Nintendo benefits from that much more than Sony would.

You are probably right, but still... You also don't let children play with your toys for free, only to charge them small sums of money if they want to keep playing, right? With DeNa at the helm this is what we'll see as well.

What I would think is interesting myself is the rewards system you are talking about, but maybe even take it a step further. When you play (and pay) enough of their ftp titles on the app you get a virtual console game on any system for free (selected by the big N of course). Like this you would be able to build up a catalog of games you can play on a system you might not have yet, which could entice you to buy that system.

Now if this is one part of the program, meant for the casuals, Nintendo might as well make a program for their core audience which isnt interested in mobile. These people could pay a subscription price to get the same rewards as people who play a lot of mobile games withouth having to play the mobile games they so loath. They could get the same virtual console games this way.

Both types of accounts give you discounts on the eshop, but payed subscribers get a slightly bigger discount.

This is what I mean by that both can work next to each other.

But you are right that it might not be something they'd go for because of the image they want to uphold