Why is this being spammed everywhere? It’s not news that Nintendo’s online service is paid. It’s been that way for a fucking decade.

Consoles are gross.

I agree. It's stupid either way, but the point of game chat is to use while playing games online multiplayer and in order to play online multiplayer you need to switch online subscription as is true with most consoles. Just the fact that it's attached to a physical button that launches an ad if you don't have it though, yeah that's pretty garbage.

During the free trial, I suppose one could use it to just use the console as a video chat, but who is actually using that over something like discord?

You can press it for free, you just have to pay if you want it to actually do something.

it says C, guess someone gotta hack that and make it load some cheat menu or smth

So the button doesn't work after I pay for the console/controller?

I'm not in the market for one of those, so it'll be a no from me.

I have no demand for your supply.

the C stands for Costly

People need to start asking companies why they are including features on things that they can't afford to maintain.

Why did Nintendo include a "C" button that they're forcing users to pay for after they already bought the controller? Maybe they should charge more for said controller or remove the button instead?

Conversely, Nintendo's switch is occupying space in people's homes... How do these people go about charging Nintendo a monthly rate for the space they occupy (and the power they need to operate/charge, and a monthly user fee for the people to play on Nintendo's device). If we don't own them, we should really be charging Nintendo for the privilege of having their things in our homes and being used right? Goes both ways

this is pretty old news, but yeah, that's how it be. like - literally a year old >v<

They have been charging a subscription for online features since at least covid.

This isn't anything new.

I have a 3ds and you could play animal crossing with anyone online for free. But when I got the new switch one during covid I was surprised to learn you can't do that without a subscription. And they basically had all the online game features requiring it.

They used to have all the old consule games as free. But then started requiring a subscription for those. And then decided nah, we will make it so n64 and others will require an even more expensive subscription.

I can't recall the cost but the base level one is fairly cheap but probably still over priced since I literally only use it for animal crossing which I take long breaks from. I've played a few of the old Nintendo and SNES games but not enough to make it worth $30.

Maybe $30 a year ?

I always say a switch is like a inkjet printer. Sure it's a lot cheaper than a laser printer (gaming PC). But the ink (games) cost 10x more so ultimately you don't save any money.

Hey, what did you expect? Our greed isn't free, ya-know.