A more elaborate post on the subject matter incoming...
jason1637 said:
This would probably be a pro for me considering i buy like 4 wii u and 2 3ds games a year. So only spending about A$100 a year for games would be pretty great. |
Except if for what ever reason you find yourself without the money to pay for a subscription you would be locked out of everything. Renting without options is and always will be a bad thing for consomers regardless of a few individuals. Not acknowledging that is just asking for trouble. Not to mention once the servers are offline for any reason everything is gone.
@JRPGfan, haha, My original post was actually going to bring up some of those points (I was lazy). Like the ability for this to be successful even in 10 years from now doesn't seem like a good idea or a good thing for gamers. Latency alone would make 99% of everyone's experience poor and thats without mentioning all the things you did. I don't think some people realize that the internet is still infantile. It has a very long way to go and it'll likely be 20-30+ years before this stuff should even start to be considered. We may not have the infrastructure for it then either.
Admittedly despite my joking I am worried the newer generation's casual gamers would adopt without thinking. Things like paying to play online was laughed at back before the 360. So much so, not many considered it a threat. Then you look at Mobile and the kids that steal their parents credit cards to pay up thousands to some crappy game for shit that used to be free in games and its been spilling more and more into your AAA games. People saying they need to make money even though their profit margins are far greater then they ever were in the past. Most games spent months to be profitable, now most AAA make profits on day one.
I'd include PS Neo in that rant but I'm tired of explaining why the way it's being done, not that its being done, is toxic.
Again all that said I have a hard time believing Nintendo would go through with something like this. It's gotta be an extra optional service for the console IMO if true. Perhaps a service allowing the connection from your in home system to handheld. The home system acting as your personal server. That would reduce load on Nintendos servers handling that data as the go between and reduce costs significantly.
