Nintendo online 2.0

[Peh]

Ka-pi96 said:

Peh said:

Before you say my logic is flawed, please take a moment and think where the money is coming from for those "non-MMO PC games that are free to play online" and compare those to Nintendo's online games. Or even better,yet: How do you think a free online game like Fortnite is making all its money to keep their servers online and still make a lot of revenue? Or how does it even get its money if it's free2play? What keeps those Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon servers online all the time? Where is that money coming from?

If Nintendo would see a change for extra cash, they would let you pay for online only and give nothing back in return, no free games, no cloud storage, etc.  Those licenses for 3rd party games on SNES and NES are not free you know. 

Why compare apples to oranges? Why not compare to something like Team Sonic Racing instead? Which gets its money from the exact same place as Mario Kart 8 yet is still free to play online on PC.

Or better yet, how about we compare MK8 deluxe to the original MK8 on Wii U? One was free to play online, the other isn't.

You complain about comparing apples and oranges yet you compare apple and oranges. Team Sonic Racing has no free online on Switch. I don't see Mario Kart 8 on PC. Publishers are afraid of adding an online fee for online gaming on PC. Sega has to get their money from somewhere else to afford the servers on PC. 

Online multiplayer on Nintendo games was always a "mixed" experience. It's not perfect nor is it any good. It barely works for games like Mario Kart 8 where a good netcode is not necessary for those online sessions. It just works. It fails on competitive games, though. People are aware of it, so is Nintendo. And from what I've seen is, they are pretty late to the party of good online connectivity and are reconstructing their service as of now. Nevertheless, those online service being free of charge, means they could afford the costs through other means, besides, WiiU was not successful, the userbase was small, not much server capacity was needed. With Switch, it changed. 

I can only assume, that they started reconstructing their online service with the launch of the Switch. With start, I mean started to plan the reconstruction.