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Slownenberg on 17 December 2022
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Ka-pi96 said:
Slownenberg said:

I mean this is one of the big benefits of the online subscription service. You no longer have to rebuy overpriced VC games each gen for the next system and wait while Nintendo starts the next console's VC service from scratch.

If Nintendo had continued with the VC model it would have been that lame situation every generation. But now, even though they've been taking their sweet time building out the NSO retro games service this gen, still they are getting it done now so it'll already be built out and available for each new system. They've already got the subscription service built out so you get the whole library of games at your fingertips from one gen to the next as long as your are subscribing. You just keep the subscription going when the next system comes out and nothing changes. Infintely better than the way they did things prior to the Switch.

Nintendo has always been behind in online features, but at least now they've got their retro games service figured out in a consumer friendly way where from gen to gen you just keep paying the subscription and it doesn't matter which system you're playing on cuz all the games are included in the subscription.

There's no guarantee it will carry over to their next console, all past evidence suggests the opposite actually. They've never done it before, why would they now? Not to mention things are regularly removed from subcription services, there's no assurances that games will even be there next year, let alone on their next console.

It's not even remotely consumer friendly. Locking things behind a subscription is about as anti-consumer as you can possibly get.

haha. You must just be trolling right?? I hope so. That's such a bizarre take. I can't imagine what would make you think this subscription service they've been gradually building out over years will suddenly vanish just because a new system comes out. There literally would be no reason at all for them to stop using it. All past evidence was the opposite because it was the VC model which was not a subscription service but involved downloading games to a specific system. That service is gone now, thank god. Now they have a subscription service. It would make no sense whatsoever for them to trash the entire subscription infrastructure they build every generation only to rebuild it from scratch just for fun. All they have to do is connect the next Nintendo system to the service and it's available. I mean, Apple doesn't rebuild their cloud services everytime they release a new line of computers or phones lol.

I think its fair to say one of the main reasons WHY Nintendo abandoned the VC model and moved to this subscription model is so that they WOUDLN'T have to rebuild the infrastructure from scratch just because a new system came out.

In terms of anti-consumer...ummm what? Subscriptions services took over when Netflix many years ago showed the world that they are far superior to how things were previously done. Yeah, sure, everyone really hates getting access to everything all the time for a cheap monthly/annual fee lol. So anti-consumer are you practicing for debate team or something?? lol cuz you'd have to be a hell of a debater to make a coherent case for subscriptions being anti-consumer.