Dulfite said:
I made a thread on this a while back I think. At the time, and this was many months ago, I had saved already $$$ on using Gamepass versus buying games. I have no idea how you could possibly save money by buying games over subscriptions, unless you only ever buy games when they are like 85% (so no Nintendo games lol). I've saved over $1000 easily since subscribing to Gamepass. And 99% of video games I play I'm done with after beating so I don't need to own them to go back to them one day, they would simply sit on a hard drive or collect dust until said hardware went dead or I got rid of stuff. Found it https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=244647&page=1#1 Looks like I've saved $886 so far, so a little less than what my post said, my bad. Still, it has saved me a ton of money, and I've got other games in the queue waiting to play once I get through ones I'm on. |
I think the question is how much games you want are on subscritpion service vs how many games you want to purchase. In my case, 90% of the games I've played in the last 4 years were either current last or at least gen gen immediately before, meaning they regardless of the number of older games in subscription service I would still need to pay for almost everything I wanted to play
If you can enjoy many games on Switch Online, then the service is for you. But the only games I wanted on Switch Online I've already beaten (Yoshi Island, Mario World, Donkey Kong 2 and 3 and Super Metroid), meaning now my subscription keep going and I still have nothing new to play
Subscription are good because the content keep growing, that's why Disney Plys, HBO Max, Amazon Prime all release new things. Old catalog that isn't growing isn't an attractive.
