Nintendo has revealed new details about its online service. For starters, Nintendo will be introducing cloud backups for saved game data. More details about the save data cloud backups will come before the online service launches in September. Nintendo also announced that 20 NES games will be playable with online play through the service, such as Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros 3., and the Legend of Zelda. The service will cost $3.99 for 1 month, $7.99 for 3 months, and $19.99 for 12 months. Additionally, Nintendo will also launch a family plan at $34.99 for 12 months. This family plan will allow the holder of the family plan to invite up to seven other people.

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[Pluupy]

Oh good I was worried I would have to pay for online service on all eight of my Nintendo Switches separately.

 

[zoogie]

Too bad they didn't have this service for the 3ds. Ninjhax saves in the cloud would have been pretty dope. I'd have paid for that.

 

[Noctosphere]

Not sure to understand the family plan
Does it mean that we can have up to 8 switch connected to Online Services?

 

[garyopa]

i wonder how the family plan is going to work, i have four brothers and a friend who i bought switches for while 2 share the same ip address and would certainly work and a further 2 live in the same city the final two live across the country.
but hopefully it's like netflix and anyone you trust enough to share your password with counts.

the TRUST FACTOR is enforced, by Nintendo, in that whomever is main 'family group' account holder, must have his/her valid CREDIT CARD and/or PAYPAL account LINKED/STORED on file with big 'N'.

And that person is this sole responsible for all online charges, digital purchases, dlc, eShop content, that the 8 people in your FAMILY GROUP purchase at anytime they are are online.

This will cut down greatly any abuse of people thinking they can form like a little private block group of 8 gaming buddies, that you may or may not known in person, as no matter how trusting your friends might be its not like sharing your 'netflix login password', its sharing a CC or PP account that can rake up service charges anytime, anyplace, anywhere, from any of 8 Switch'es.

So yeah, FAMILY it is, nothing more, and even then I am hell not trusting my older brother that buys everything and everything online even if he does not need it, last month he wasted $2k on google play store alone.

 

[DBlaze]

These seem like really basic functions for an online service though, why is it taking them so long to implement it?
I honestly don't understand why anyone would be hyped for the ultra-minimal basic online support it should've had day 1, or else way earlier than september.

I'd rather have them implement an option to locally backup saves

 

[zoogie]

the TRUST FACTOR is enforced, by Nintendo, in that whomever is main 'family group' account holder, must have his/her valid CREDIT CARD and/or PAYPAL account LINKED/STORED on file with big 'N'.

And that person is this sole responsible for all online charges, digital purchases, dlc, eShop content, that the 8 people in your FAMILY GROUP purchase at anytime they are are online.

This will cut down greatly any abuse of people thinking they can form like a little private block group of 8 gaming buddies, that you may or may not known in person, as no matter how trusting your friends might be its not like sharing your 'netflix login password', its sharing a CC or PP account that can rake up service charges anytime, anyplace, anywhere, from any of 8 Switch'es.

So yeah, FAMILY it is, nothing more, and even then I am hell not trusting my older brother that buys everything and everything online even if he does not need it, last month he wasted $2k on google play store alone.

Just put parental controls smackdown on those "kids"

Spoiler: unless

those kids have f-g goin' on

 

[Pluupy]

These seem like really basic functions for an online service though, why is it taking them so long to implement it?
I honestly don't understand why anyone would be hyped for the ultra-minimal basic online support it should've had day 1, or else way earlier than september.

I'd rather have them implement an option to locally backup saves

Nintendo has to get their servers ready to get rammed in the rear by Super Smash Bros players as this service will release after the game, giving Smash players time to get used to the gameplay before competing globally.

 

[owek1]

what about when nintendo bans someone, will the rest of the Family gets affected?

 

[Lazyboss]

Later many people will start selling the family plan, pay $34.99, sell for 7 more people for $5 each at least = $35 total.
Profit? you are playing for free

 

[the_randomizer]

Just NES games? No N64, Snes, GBA, DS, or the like? And we can't keep the older games unless we subscribe to this? Not sure what to feel.

Laaaaaaaaaaaaame. Man, am I glad the Switch has been hacked, we can play the games that Nintendo is blatantly refusing to let us buy and keep.

 

[|<roni&g]

Old ass nes games, screw that. The online is going to suck for old games, be interesting to see but won't be anything amazing.
People who are eager to pay for a service that has always been free are stupid, Nintendo should have already had cloud saves and nes games don't warrant any kind of payment.
Ds, Wii,3ds, WiiU and even Switch right now are all free to play online as they should be, and they plan to charge for it and any of you think that's good?
After a year long break you could fire up those consoles I mentioned and go straight online with no payments necessary, now soon if you take a break from switch for a year and wanna play Mario kart you're going to have to pay first? Fkin pathetic.

Nintendos online is a free service and that is all it has the right to be, their multiplayer games are very few in comparison to the other consoles and they have nothing to warrant paying for.

Someone needs to begin making Switchmmfi

 

[Deleted User]

http://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendo-switch/onlineservice/
https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/26a6b549-4777-11e8-b311-063b7ac45a6d.html
AU and Japan announcements and pricing. Couldn't find a Europe announcement

 

[garyopa]

http://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendo-switch/onlineservice/
https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/26a6b549-4777-11e8-b311-063b7ac45a6d.html
AU and Japan announcements and pricing. Couldn't find a Europe announcement

EU coming at later date, few more issues to solve over there regarding 'regulations'. meanwhile here is Brexit (UK) version:

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Nintendo...ch-Online/Nintendo-Switch-Online-1183143.html

EDIT: -- strange the UK one is missing anything to do with 'cloud saves'... -- weird...

 

[owek1]

i'm hoping we could at least copy or save files to a usb stick in a future update.. but at least this (cloud saves) is better than nothing..

 

[Deleted member 420418]

Nice, Hopefully the online play for the NES Games turn out nice.

 

[DarthDub]

Nintendo still doesn't know what they're doing with Online Services..

 

[Deleted User]

EU coming at later date, few more issues to solve over there regarding 'regulations'. meanwhile here is Brexit (UK) version:

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Nintendo...ch-Online/Nintendo-Switch-Online-1183143.html

EDIT: -- strange the UK one is missing anything to do with 'cloud saves'... -- weird...

It's an older article I think. It only mentions the 3 NES games that were previously announced.

 

[KingVamp]

Don't know why people are treating this like this is a good thing. If people didn't pay for the thing, paying for online wouldn't exist at all.

I think putting cloud saves online behind a paywall when there is currently no other official way to back them up is a really shitty thing to do as well.

 

[Foxi4]

An appropriate price point for an incredibly barebones service. Seems fair to me, but it's hardly competitive due to a lack of IGC/GWG equivalent with current gen titles.

 

[zoogie]

An appropriate price point for an incredibly barebones service. Seems fair to me, but it's hardly competitive due to a lack of IGC/GWG equivalent with current gen titles.

Nintendo consoles are always a bargain because they're so easy to hack