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Cobretti2 on 10 February 2019
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Conina said:
Mar1217 said:
You're still giving up 20 $ for online + some NES games basically, lacking cert. but we probably shouldn't be entitled to get a carbon copy of other service's when we're also paying 3x/4x less than them.

If they can simply beef up the games offering, then I'll be happy to shell out those 20 bucks instead of going with a month subscription when I feel like it.

3x/4x less than PS+ or XBL Gold? It costs around half the price of PS+ or XBL Gold when buying the subscriptions at the right time.

Unless you have family members or close friends to share a family membership, you are at $20 / €20 per year. The lowest price on 12-month Nintendo Online gift cards I've seen yet was €19.94... so six cents saved.

On the other hand I never payed more than €35 per year for PS+. In the first years (up to 2012) Sony often gave away 90-day-subscriptions for free when you bought PSN credit.

In 2017 I bought 15 months PS+ for €35... that's €28 for 12 months:

Most of the €28 - €35 € per year I get back due to PS Store discounts for PS+ members.

eShop discounts for Nintendo Online members were talked about but haven't happened yet.

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And then there are the games... in the 6.5 years PS+ I unlocked over 70 games with a MetaScore of 85 or better, over 80 games with a MetaScore of 80 - 84 and over 100 games with a MetaScore of 75 - 79:

On average that are more than 10 great games and around 30 good games per year... many of them within two years after release; many of the good indie games on day one of their release. And there were even some more good games in the PS+ subscription which I didn't unlock because I already bought them before.

I appreciate you going into the effort to post all this information. I agree there is value there for sure. I can see how some people benefit from this. These kind of offering current gen games makes a lot of sense and not the ones people are complaining about here (e.g more NES games? really you haven't played them enough over the last 30 years lol?)

For me though it just feels weird, even if i had all those games there to unlock, I still would have bough the physical copies of the ones I like. Personally I don't like the idea of renting games.