On the contrary, Nintendo has ventured an economic request that no one expected: the registration of a single account (including the additional package) is 39.99 euros, that of a family member 69.99 euros. Well, the hope – extremely optimistic – was that the games on the platform would be loaded like the NES and SNES ones, so as to incentivize the registration of those who, yet, were not subscribers to Nintendo Switch Online. The third reason is that many fans for years have wanted to be able to replay Nintendo 64 titles: there is no Nintendo 64 Classic Mini, after all. Perhaps a too expensive price for what is offered, but still an acceptable cost to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe online and many other exceptional titles, as well as to have the cloud saves.

Secondly, all this was accepted with a fair degree of serenity, or at least with a certain indifference, precisely because of the low cost of the service: 19.99 euros per year for a single registration, 34.99 euros for a family member (up to eight account). And there is no doubt that Nintendo, in this area, and in particular in online gaming, is generations back: there are still friend codes, which should belong to videogame archeology, and voice chat (when there is ) is managed through an external app and we could go on and on. The first is that i online services, however unique your games may be, however unique your ideas may be, they are – from a certain point of view – directly comparable from one competitor to another. There are, we assume, three main reasons. Nintendo users have long been accustomed to the fact that the Kyotese company has its own economic policies, not in the sense of absurdity, but detached from those of its competitors and, in general, of the other players in the market. The trailer of the Nintendo Switch Online add-on package it quickly became the video with the most “dislikes” of the usually very benevolent YouTube channel of Nintendo: it succeeded in the enterprise to surpass the presentation of Metroid Prime: Federation Force, which we imagined would keep the record for a long time.

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