Slownenberg said:
Personally I much prefer the subscription system. So much cheaper and you get everything. Just a much more consumer friendly system than the VC. Just on the first day, yesterday, of having the expansion pack i played Banjo and FzeroX a good amount and would have had to pay $20 on the old VC model while it only costs me an extra $30 over the basic subscription to get those and all the other N64 and Genesis games plus all the extra MK8D courses for a whole year. I also played a little bit of several other games, oh and I played some of the new MK8D courses as well. I don't even want to think about how many hundreds of dollars I would have to drop under a Virtual Console system to be able to play what I'll end up playing this year for $50. VC model was cool back in 2007, but it was just soooo expensive compared to today's world of cheap subscriptions. But I agree it'd be a nice option for that niche where people want to pay extra to be able to download a few games. Like if you're only interested in a handful of games and you want to be playing them 10 years from now then yeah VC model is cheaper. And I mean it'd just give Nintendo even more money so I'm sure they wouldn't mind, but they are also lazy in building out online stuff so I doubt they'll add this alternative when the majority of people prefer to have immediate cheap access to full libraries of games. Assuming they add GB and GBA in the expansion pack, and once they get all the games out (I'm also dreaming of them adding GC when the Switch 2 is out) the expansion pack will be like the ultimate retro games subscription. I really think they should open up the service outside of Nintendo systems and just let anyone online subscribe. I could totally see them getting like 100 million $50/year subscriptions eventually if it was available to anyone. Probably lots of 35-50 year olds out there who played games in the 90s but don't buy systems anymore but would pay a cheap $50/year price to get 200-300 of the games they played as a kid available to them anywhere. |
I don't agree with this reasoning. Overall subscription is less expensive than purchasing games only if there is enough new games coming for as long as you keep the subscription going, that's why Game Pass is cheap, there are always new games coming to it
There isn't that many N64 games to be delivered (and that's only pretending I find they worth their price, which by the way I don't), means once the N64 games are done there wont be anything else to subscribe for
Also, they are delivering only few games in a desperate attempt to keep subscribers on the service for as long as they can, instead of doing the consumer friendly approach of put all the library at the same time. They don't do this because they are very much aware their content is limited, if everything was available right of the start people would just subscribe for 2 months months to play their 3-4 favorite games and then go back to the standard plan
