noagenda on 20 July 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
And how does that work? The app is included in the online price which you'd have to pay to play online/chat to friends regardless of whether they had the app or not. Unless.... the app isn't filled with ads or something to generate revenue is it? :O |
It is....annonimized metadata. That's some gold to market researchers and they would be willing to pay.
Nintendo is not above the same tactics as other large companies that have taken to datamining their own customers for additional revenue.
Secondarily, I also believe it was to off load network trafffic on Nintendo servers.
While it would be mininal traffic, compared to game traffic, it would still impose a cost that Nintendo figured out how to get you to pay for instead.
