Amidst all the complaints and rage over Nintendo’s online service, it seems many disgruntled Nintendo fans have proven to be all talk as Japanese retailer Tsutaya claims that Nintendo Switch online prepaid cards have been “selling well”.
The prepaid cards are being sold in Japan in 2 different forms: 3-month and 12-month plans, with the 12-month plan generating the most demand – causing Tsutaya to theorize that this demand might be due to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as a 3-month plan would end near to the title’s December 7th launch.
If Tsutaya (who operates over 1,000 stores throughout Japan) is to be believed about how their prepaid cards are selling well, then it seems Nintendo may yet be free to offer even more absurd services in the future – EA may finally have the rival they deserve.
No surprise. As much as the fans have rightfully lashed out over this it didn’t effect Microsoft or Sony’s bottom line before this. I doubt it will effect Nintendo’s either.
rip “proper infrastructure”
Nintendo charges a fraction of Sony or Microsoft’s subscription, or even your everyday s♥♥t like Netflix, Youtube Premium, and Spotify. Yeah, clearly they are the worse than EA.
They offer even less content than any of those other services, the fact that you Cloud savings would be fucking DELETED if you don’t have their stupid subscription is enough of a reason to not buy this crap. I know they SORT of fixed it, but the fact that it takes them A LONG ASS TIME to figure s♥♥t that MS and Sony have easily done since the previous generations is just pathetic. Nintendo’s subscription is ASS. Stop defending their garbage.
100% agree f♥♥k nintendo
Yeah they charge a fraction ofnthe money because you get a fraction of the content. Its true you get what you pay for. Their shitty service is cheap because you get f♥♥k all for it.
Truth. Nintendo has a weaker online infrastructure than Sega did during the Dreamcast era. Granted most of the people who come here are likely too young to even remember the Dreamcast online, it was 18 years old.
Don’t you dare to forget Uzume!
They don’t even know what’s a Dreamcast, let alone the online.
Only clicked cause Bowsette.
This meme is going to kill the company. Any of their market gains took a dump this morning, down another 2%
Are you an idiot?
People are sick of that s♥♥t already, go take a walk
Nintendo is almost like a religion in Japan so no surprises here
There is a very creepy religiosity at play here. Its almost cult like. Try insulting a certain meme and watch the inquisition unfold!
In the same way Apple ,pays more for an inferior product.
No matter what others say, your products are superior quality and more sophisticated than competitors.
When they respond to criticism, it’s as if someone has said a blasphemer!
They think they are a select group, when in fact they have been brainwashed!
You dont pay more for intendo tough….
pc wins again
It’s funny that people say this unironically about the birthplace of freemium, online subscriptions, and early access.
psst… FIFA started selling well to console players. You know, the idiots who’d buy lootboxes without question.
No.
PC gamers at least don’t have to pay to play the games they’ve bought online. They just drop the cash on say a game like er.. Far Cry 5 and can play it online just like that. Adding to that, if you’ve got a good PC, you can play those games at a much higher & stable framerate than consoles.
Two butthurt console scrubs upset by the facts presented.
Well I got switch and pc (and 3DS), I can’t play Super Mario Odyssey or Xenoblade 2, Octopath etc on my (pretty good) gaming pc. It’s about games, not HW, or you can play waiting game with emulators. I don’t want to, I just want to play actual games, still waiting for anouncement for Xenoblade x port tho. I play almost exlusively SP games on both platforms but I still payed for online just to keep my saves safe and for occasional Mario Kart/Splatoon 2 MP. For me 20 bucks is nothing, it’s like price of 1/3rd of one new AAA game on PC without any DLC. About framerate – 60(or more) fps is better than 30fps but 30 is better than 0fps, think about it
btw I’m not the guy you reacted to just gamer passing by
OK, I was trying to be nice, but this is example of PC only masturbrace at it’s finest, I’m not console gamer, I’m gamer, last week I finished Shadow of Tomb Raider on max settings on my PC(without raytracing). Buying console on decline to play years old games is almost as stupid as starting to insult someone with more than one platform console retard, I probably have much better pc than you asshole
Lol, shows how much you know. You get a much better experience the higher the framerate is when gaming, also less input lag. If you’re playing a first person shooter at 30fps, you’re either a console scrub or someone with a s♥♥t PC. Try playing a PC game at a stable 60fps and then try a console port at 30fps. If you can’t tell the difference, your eyes are clearly damaged.
Ooh, games. Console retards always play the exclusive card right off the bat. Instead of boasting at how much a portable gadget can get a larger crowd, let’s ignore those for the games on the consoles. Ah, you mentioned emulators and not wanting to wait for it, yeah good luck with the first gen of the latest console.
Wanna know the best time when to buy a console bruh? At the near end. You are sure that there’s no console 1.5 coming and the latest one would have a larger library and is in the final build with hardware support still. Really makes no different with emulators other than emulators can run basically anywhere that meets the requirements. Oh sorry, I forgot console gamers aren’t that big on reading. Carry on lads, continue your yapping, inbred methods of legitimizing scummy business practices.
Yeah but at the same time there are a great hundredth of thousand games I can play on my PC. And fear not, those you mentioned above will be emulated soon. Nintendo consoles are the fastest to emulate, just look at their history…. Wii U and 3DS games play beautifully on my PC. Switch is coming soon.
How does BotW runs on pc bruh?
Runs just fine at 60fps. Try harder to troll.
I didn’t know this, thank you.
Runs far better than nintendo’s native hardware..because they’re selling you overpriced tech from generations ago. Meanwhile PC 60 fps lel. Git on my level scrub.
Emulator