The $20 USD annual Smash tax.
$60 USD for the base game.
$20 USD per year to play online.
+DLC and/or micro transactions.

$60 USD games really are dead.

Also:
This will probably make finding ARMS matches, next to impossible.

The earlier rumour said GBA, SNES and N64 games are going to be added, remember these aren't just Virtual Console games they've been enhanced as well with some being given online play.

Ds might be hard because of touch screen and dual screen. Which both are hard to implement playing on TV. 

It shouldn't be. Because Arms puts you in like a room of players. You will never be alone. 

Nintendo hires people to play the game when there is not enough people to fill a lobby in a given area?
That is what it would take to ensure a game like ARMS can reliably be played online.

ARMS didn't sell that well.
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/online-service/
Now that pool of available players is going to be reduced considerably.
Anecdotally: many people bought the game, and either didn't play it much, or have stopped playing it.

Given the entire ARMS player-base aren't in one region.
It is unlikely  that there will be enough people in countries like Australia, to reliably fill a room.
ARMS matches will either be very hard to find, and/or between people who aren't in the same region.
A large distance between players, leads to high ping, which leads to a worse overall user experience.
(Assuming you can find a match)

Arms selling 1.85m is very good especially for a fighting game as with those numbers it's outsold most fighting games significantly, 1.85m is also a game selling well especially a new IP.

i dont see why it should be harder to find player. the average player probably want to play Mario Tennis, or Smash, or Splatoon anyway, not just ARMS, so they will probably get the online service to play all those games. and if they only play ARMS, why they should not take the service and stop playing th eonly game they play ?

I dont understand all the hate for Nitendo right now. Since day 1 Nintendo had announced paid online services. but back then it was the same price, without cloud saves, and with only 1 free NES game per month, now we get 20, with more added, and cloud save but for the same price !

$35 a *year*

I can't fathom the outrage about this. Online servers are expensive to maintain, and if you want quality online support outside of the game's launch window, it's best to include a minor cost for online.

But beside that, it's drastically cheaper than the competition's versions, plus it comes with potentially superior additions compared to the add-ons that the competitors throw in.

Furthermore, literally nothing they revealed is actually *news* here except for the family plan. Everything else they said is basically just clarification on things we've already known for ages. Where was the outrage six months to a year ago when this stuff was first revealed?

All i wanted was cloud-saving, now i can actually take my Switch out of my house.