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It'll probably be like the normal NSO rules, you need to be online once to check that you're subbed and then you can be offline for the next week I believe. It needs to check once a week or something like that?
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News NSO and Expansion Pack Pricing- $49.99/Individual $79.99/Family (Annually) Available in US October 25th
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OP
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TMNT Hyperstone Heist would make the price worth it. Just saying..............
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The price also really brings into focus how little improvement Nintendo has made to either their online services or the Switch OS this generation. If they were better with that stuff and I could see where the money is being invested then I'd feel better about this.
Instead, I had to hack my Switch to get a working activity/play record. It's absolutely brilliant (like the 3DS one) and done for free by some homebrew guy. You can't tell me Nintendo couldn't have paid someone to do that. Instead, they've done absolutely nothing with the OS. Well, we finally have bluetooth audio after 4 years, I guess.
Instead, I had to hack my Switch to get a working activity/play record. It's absolutely brilliant (like the 3DS one) and done for free by some homebrew guy. You can't tell me Nintendo couldn't have paid someone to do that. Instead, they've done absolutely nothing with the OS. Well, we finally have bluetooth audio after 4 years, I guess.
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Shows F-Zero X, Banjo-Kazooie, Paper Mario, Majora's Mask, Pokemon Snap, Mario Golf, Kirby 64 as "coming next"
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Definitely could see future DLCs being included in this as well, which is definitely an interesting tactic.
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They already announced 95% of the good n64 game, and if Sega didn't come cheap, not exactly holding my breath for constant updates.
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Well, that pretty much screws someone like me. I'm moving out soon and I don't know when or how often I'll have internet. I think I'll just buy the DLC and be done with it.
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Tbf, nothing of that has anything to do with NSO.
Voice chat and a better working online infrastructure on the other hand ...
Kano
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But that can't work in practice. What about the new items you get on your island? Or the decorations?
Is it just blocking access to the separate area?
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Honestly the idea of getting DLC included in the future with the expansion pass is appealing. Most DLC is one and done. I would still buy stuff like Smash and Mario Kart DLC but if I could get say Age of Calamity DLC included for a quick trip I would be all for it.
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Me neither, and I'm getting the animal crossing expansion pack with it also so it's good enough for me. I personally think yearly it's not that much anyway for all you get
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Good questions. I'm guessing it'll just block access to that other area, yeah.
Dark Cloud
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I wished playing online was better with Nintendo. Now they’re going to get comparisons to Sony and MS even with this being only a separate expansion.
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Geeez. I was a complete fool in thinking it would be just a 5, 10 dollars at most increase. And I really wanted N64 games too, but not at this price.
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I've been quite okay with the pricing of NSO before, I even think it's been a good deal.
But this is horse sheit.
I have a family membership I share with my daughter, who uses it strictly to watch youtube with on her Switch so I pay more for my stuff already and if I ever would want to upgrade I would have to upgrade the family package and that would make it silly expensive for something I would use from time to time.
I dont even like the N64 library, I dont even play animal Crossing and that's a steep price to pay for playing the Mega Drive games...
This is dissapointing.
But this is horse sheit.
I have a family membership I share with my daughter, who uses it strictly to watch youtube with on her Switch so I pay more for my stuff already and if I ever would want to upgrade I would have to upgrade the family package and that would make it silly expensive for something I would use from time to time.
I dont even like the N64 library, I dont even play animal Crossing and that's a steep price to pay for playing the Mega Drive games...
This is dissapointing.
i don't really have an interest in that anyway, since they've stopped adding good nes and snes games.
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That's way, way, WAAAAAAAYYYYY too costy. I remember a lot of people expecting 10$, which would already be somewhat expensive as it's 50% increase, but an actual 150% increase I saw literally no one guessing.
I mean, it's 30 dollars more for the expansion. While the vanilla version is only 20.
I mean it's a good deal for people that are going to get the Animal Crossing DLC anyways as for 5 dollars more you also get one year of N64 and Mega Drive games.
Okay so I now think the Expansion Pack will be the only Expansion Pack. So it's the vanilla version for online, NES and SNES, cloud and special offers and some games, with the + Expansion Pack for N64, Sega Genesis, Animal Crossing and more DLC they'll add, and other systems to be added in the future like Game Cube and Game Boy.
I mean, it's 30 dollars more for the expansion. While the vanilla version is only 20.
I mean it's a good deal for people that are going to get the Animal Crossing DLC anyways as for 5 dollars more you also get one year of N64 and Mega Drive games.
Okay so I now think the Expansion Pack will be the only Expansion Pack. So it's the vanilla version for online, NES and SNES, cloud and special offers and some games, with the + Expansion Pack for N64, Sega Genesis, Animal Crossing and more DLC they'll add, and other systems to be added in the future like Game Cube and Game Boy.
If they add this one I'm in:Wish they were adding some game boy classics, might make it more worth it.
No need to even add the DS as a system. This alone would suffice.
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It's more expensive than i thought it would be, but 40€ is still not that bad
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I would hope this is what they do. If not that'd be pretty bad.
Yup. I always ignored those comparisons because the price difference was pretty wide. Now it's not.
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oh god, this probably means other systems like Game Boy are gonna get locked behind this tier as well
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And with Nintendo the “expansion” only means more games to them. For others they want more features on the Switch or just better online too.
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Unfortunately I wouldn't bet on that. Switch is too strong, for good and bad.
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Not only that, but I was recently reminded that you don't get cloud storage for your screenshots and videos, which seems pretty basic. I don't think it's a thing on the other consoles either, but you get like 20 gigs of free storage for that on Steam as well as free cloud saves (that don't count against that 20 gigs) as long as developers implement it (also free for them), and with Apple devices you get 5 gigs of cloud storage at no added cost. Cloud for save files only being behind a paywall doesn't feel acceptable to me in this day and age.
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Here’s the thing I had a $50 Eshop card set aside for winter. So I’m in, just bummed I don’t have margin for any sales…. Which considering my backlog
Um you don’t need NSO to watch youtube, you should just drop to an individual
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Yup. If the online was seamless this would be a great deal. I wouldn't be trying to reason with my fanboy self that this is a bad deal and I shouldn't rush into an upgrade lol.
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I still can't figure out why Nintendo decided to put Genesis instead of Gameboy in here. Why, Nintendo?!
BlueManifest
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50$ and can’t even get Mario rpg on snes
Dark Cloud
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I get it they pay for licensing and what not. I see the $30 increase for individual in America. I’m the consumer and that’s what I see. What backdealings they do with Square, Microsoft, Sega, Konami etc is on them.
It’s on them in the end to show the value is worth paying this much more and they haven’t conveyed enough value is there for me. Maybe GB/GBA will come or some crazy third party games we didn’t think would happen, but I can only take the current info that Nintendo has given to me at the moment.
It’s on them in the end to show the value is worth paying this much more and they haven’t conveyed enough value is there for me. Maybe GB/GBA will come or some crazy third party games we didn’t think would happen, but I can only take the current info that Nintendo has given to me at the moment.
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Gameboy is probably coming next to the Expansion Pack.
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They're going to add Mario RPG, Earthbound, and Earthbound Zero and put them behind the expansion paywall.
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Family subscription it is then.
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Yeah, I don't really care about Animal Crossing and I'm not paying $50 for only a few extra games.
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If you’re getting the Animal Crossing DLC this isn’t a bad deal. It’s $5 for N64 and Genesis games at that point. I’ll be going this route because I’m a diehard AC player.
However, Nintendo has put themselves in an interesting predicament. They’ll need to give away dlc again in 2022 to help incentivize people to resub. Using Animal Crossing to do it this year makes sense due to the games massive sales and online community.
Next year I’m not sure what they could that would draw that many people in. I do have one idea though. Maybe now is the time to finally add DLC to Mario Kart 8 deluxe. It’s the best selling Switch game and has a decent online community. Bundling an expansion pass with NSO might help with the player base fragmentation. It’s also the biggest pool of players to draw from.
However, Nintendo has put themselves in an interesting predicament. They’ll need to give away dlc again in 2022 to help incentivize people to resub. Using Animal Crossing to do it this year makes sense due to the games massive sales and online community.
Next year I’m not sure what they could that would draw that many people in. I do have one idea though. Maybe now is the time to finally add DLC to Mario Kart 8 deluxe. It’s the best selling Switch game and has a decent online community. Bundling an expansion pass with NSO might help with the player base fragmentation. It’s also the biggest pool of players to draw from.
I was day 1 with this. But I don't care about AC and I almost never buy dlc since my backlog of games is so large that I finish one game and go right to the next. So this is way too overpriced for the benefit I'd be receiving. Maybe when the library gets more robust, but not now.
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Needs a Smash echo pack or Mario Kart DLC thrown in.
Dark Cloud
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That Perfect Dark coming to NSO before the years end ain’t looking too good right now.
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I was willing to pay $40 for this but $50 is completely ridiculous at 150% more what I'm currently paying.
This sucks, I was really looking forward to the N64 games but I'm holding off until we see if Nintendo actually keeps a good pace on new monthly games or if it's just a continuation of their sluggish Virtual Console and NES/SNES Online release pace.
The only way they can justify this is if they keep adding more DLC like Splatoon 3/BotW2 to it in future years rather than just a one and done for Animal Crossing. Because sure it's only $5 extra if you wanted to buy AC DLC, for the first year. But after that? I don't see the value.
This sucks, I was really looking forward to the N64 games but I'm holding off until we see if Nintendo actually keeps a good pace on new monthly games or if it's just a continuation of their sluggish Virtual Console and NES/SNES Online release pace.
The only way they can justify this is if they keep adding more DLC like Splatoon 3/BotW2 to it in future years rather than just a one and done for Animal Crossing. Because sure it's only $5 extra if you wanted to buy AC DLC, for the first year. But after that? I don't see the value.