IcaroRibeiro said:
Nintendo is a tech company, it's their responsibility to provide infrastructure to allow users play the games the offer, they are instead asking players to bank not only game development, but also giving them a free money to run the online service they should provide by themselves Yes, that money to make servers running should comes from somewhere: From Nintendo's pocket Of course games price can cover that. Can't believe you truly believe this. Nintendo games break even with few million copies, Nintendo hardware is hardly sold at lost. Nintendo games with sales highly reliant on multiplayer such as Splatoon, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Smash and so on are an evergreen source of income, an income that comes thanks to multiplayer features. Server maintenance should be included as a expense to make those kind of games keep running. If Nintendo accommodate third parties, then charge the third parties for using their infrastructure, not customers. Nintendo online is nothing but a way to exploit a fixed source of income (yes, income, because I doubt they really use the money we pay for subscription to keep the servers running, it's just additional profit over products they are already selling) The only reason this practice is accept is because it becomes the standard in this industry. Microsoft standard, nobody cared. Sony followed, nobody cared. Now Nintendo is doing it, people like you are even defending the practice. Well, at least MS and Sony subscription offer their high end games along with the monthly subscription and they need to pay third parties for that, Nintendo in other hand are giving away 80's games from their own IPs, not even NES and SNES third parties. |
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