Nintendo Switch Online announced

[Nautilus]

Pyro as Bill said:

Nautilus said:

No its not.If you buy through VC, you get to keep them for life(or until your console breaks, then you gonna need to buy a new console).

If you only had the option of getting through the subsciption, you would have to pay it every year 20 dollars just to play a very selective game you want.Plus, if someday Nintendo ever decides to end the program for that console(due to the console age and there being a a new console out already), you wouldnt be able to go back and play those games you want.

What you are proposing is that less option is better for the consumer.This way is much better.You get to buy and own the games you want, but at the same time, if you just want constant acess to hundreds of old games(which Im sure this library will get bigger over time, and encompass more consoles over time), you simply subscribe.Its the better choice for Nintendo to make(this way they also make more money out of it, and make consumers happier)

But you don't really own them through VC either, same as all digital content. At least with a sub there's a near-guaranteed revenue stream to keep servers up and keep them compatible with future consoles/TVs.

This dosent make sense.A subscription model, by all accounts, is much less likely to be maintained  for a long period of time, and thus your library of games.As maintaining the servers of a console long past its lifetime is expensive, the moment the Switch is substituted, is the point that the servers can be shutdown at any moment, or at the very least the subscription program deactivated, thus evaporating any money you poured into it.And the point you make about making it compatible with future TVs/consoles can be said the same about VC.Actually, its much more likely that happen for vC, since it would, theoretically bound to your account, which would carry over, but the library build by the subscription program could not carry over(due to a number of reasons, such as trying to implant a new program, with different rewards, or not being there day one, etc).I mean, just look at the PS Plus for an clear example.Can you carry over the games you got from the subscription?Therein lies your answer.And mind you, that is a more expensive model, and thus should have a better service tied to it.

As for owning the games or not, you own it as much as any games you buy digitally.Its still more safe than the subscription, that is much more tied to Nintendo will to keep the system going.And as far as I know, the game can be saved to your system(dont know if thats how the Switch works), and thus your digitally downloaded games dosent depend on a server and can be played anytime, as long as your console works.Can the same be said for this "Netfilx" system you guys propose?

No matter how you look at it, if you wish to really garantee that you gonna have the game that you want to play, having a VC in the Switch is the way to go.Or simply want to play one or two games from legacy consoles, thats also the way to go.