Switch specs Rumor

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Faelco said:

jason1637 said:

I'm just saying that if the rumors are true it would be strange for Nintendo to add that feature when they won't be making money from it. 

They just CAN'T make money from it. It's impossible and nobody can do it, plain and simple. You can't offer 4G plans woldwide, and even less when you're not a telecom company. The best thing they can do is negotiate with specific companies in each country to launch some special 4G plans, but that's it.

The Vita did that before the Switch, so it's not that surprising. (The 3G Vita failed and was quickly discontinued though...)

Thanks for posting this, but yeah launching a video game console is one thing, but to suggest that the company should roll out world wide 4g internet to "make money" from the sim card port on that system is indeed not unlike suggesting they profit from the sale of electricity to the machines or go into production of TVs with which to view the content on.

Jason1637 all consoles since the original Xbox have featured an Ethernet port on them, no console manufacturer has ever offered a global broadband service to download data from the service they provide, heck even the biggest mobile data providers on the planet do not have a global network they simply offer roaming onto other companies networks around the globe, if Nintendo could successfully offer 4g globally with unlimited data they could quite easily never look to video games to earn another Yen... ever and be profitable from that.