Shiken said:
I predict it the features people want will come out WITH the online service rather than anytime before. This way they could play the card that these features are "new" and therefore sell them as part of the subscription service.
If those features were free for a long period of time, many would complain about how it used to be free and now it isn't. It would be an utter mess, despite letting us know the sub is coming. The same thing happened with the PS3. By the time PSN was up to snuff, all major functionallity was already free and remained free as there would be an uproar if they had charged after x amount of years for free.
Then the PS4 came out. New console, seperate infrastructure, and no longer free from the start. Even then there was a minor uproar over it (but it was still better than what MS was doing at the time, so yeah).
These Switch Service and PSN from the PS3 days may differ slightly in execution, but the concept of moving from free to paid is very much the same. |
And then we just don't get any of the basic features but still have to pay, this unfortunately is a very real possibility.
People complaining are not Nintendo's concern because they're already doing that with online play being free now but then paid. I think that we don't already have such basic features is either due to incompetence, or they just don't want to implement them.
