Should have sneaked it in maybe June/July normally September is where they entice gamers and retailers with their Christmas run-up information, price drops, new sku's, bundles etc. I'm thinking maybe they will announce a price drop for the console at the same time or something else to take the negative impact out of the online charge. I mainly have xbox live gold and psn plus for the free games. I'm more interested in offline gaming and this is even more the case with Nintendo for me anyway. I guess I could be interested in mario kart online gaming with decent connection and no cheating players but even mario kart I was more into going through the game and unlocking it offline than online. I think I'm right in saying all other portable gaming systems online is free, android, ios, windows tablets, vita and 3DS. So this is something new to the market for portable gaming. I would of preferred something like an online pass included with new games that is locked to the console it is applied to and then people buying the game secondhand had to buy the pass again if they wanted online. This puts more of a the charge onto heavier online users and less on those who only occasionally play online maybe only for 1 or 2 games plus gives Nintendo a second income through secondhand sales. Maybe something like 6 months online for that game of $5 and an extension to that for another six months of only $2.
