Will the paywall kills Splatoon ?

[Pyro as Bill]

Poojipoo said:
Charging for online play is a very bad idea on Nintendo's part. When it launches, there will be,what, two games that have any kind of meaningful online play? Nintendo doesn't have dozens of shooters and whatnot on their console, they can't justify selling online play as a premium service. I very much hope they rethink this plan.

Online is free for 7 months.

Nintendo is the only company that can justify an online service. By dozens of shooters do you mean the yearly CoD? Not sure if MS/Sony helps out with Activision's and EA's server costs.

Nintendo has the biggest racing game and fighting game in the industry and Splatoon is set to overtake Halo. Who knows what will happen to Pokemon on a home console (mmo)? What does Sony and MS need those online fees for? Halo, Forza and Gears barely add up to 20m. Does Sony even make online multiplayer games?

The other biggies are all 3rd party. Switch is confirmed to be getting Minecraft and Fifa. I don't think CoD (or GTA5) are out of the question either. Maybe people should ask how Sony can justify a subscription when Nintendo offers all the big 3rd party online games as well as the biggest 1st party online games too.