On Amazon UK, a product titled "Nintendo Switch Online Membership - 12 Months | Switch Download Code" poped up at a cost of £19.99. On the same page a 3 month version for £7.99 is also listed and both have a release date of September 30th 2018.

It should be noted however that in the description of the item it says "Preliminary", so it might change.

Nevertheless, it is not the first time that a retailer, much less Amazon, has leaked advanced knowledge of a product. And when it comes with that many specifics, it is even less likely to be a simple placeholder or speculative product.

Below is a screenshot of the listing:

• Preliminary release date.
• You'll be able to play co-operative and competitive games online by signing in with your Nintendo Account.
• With this paid service, you can enjoy online multiplayer gaming as well as a dedicated smart device app that connects to your Nintendo Switch system and helps you connect with friends for online play sessions.
• Members will have ongoing access to a library of classic games with added online play, such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Balloon Fight and Dr. Mario.

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[Xzi]

The Switch is a hardware upgrade the Wii U and is basically what it should have been in some ways. It's not next gen it is only current. Everyone claims that it is successor to both 3DS and Wii U and that is really all that I'm saying.

Yeah I understand that, but that doesn't make it a half-gen upgrade. It's more along the lines of a replacement for the Wii U in this generation because nobody knew that existed. I agree that Switch is what Wii U should've been in the first place.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

Even if the DMCA exemptions applied to consoles then from where I sit they would still be allowed to exclude you from their online services.

True, I guess, IDK kind of a rocky territory that one is . Does apple ban you from the app store for jail breaking (I honestly have no idea?).

So you rather give nintendo free money just so people cant have the option to cheat? That's pretty selfish when it comes down to the average consumer who wants to play online without being restricted by a stupid paywall.You are pretty much singling out every average consumer as a cheater if we all have to pay just to keep cheating away.As I sead in a previous post,there are stealth servers that allow people to cheat anyway.So why restrict online and ruin everyone else's online expierence?Making online payed isnt going to stop cheaters,it may keep them away for a bit but it won't completely get rid of them.

Making online paid, wont stop cheaters at all, in anyway. However online being payed will give Nintendo more incentives to stop cheaters, because people are paying. Also yes, I would gladly pay 20 dollars a year to stop cheaters, I would pay 20 a month if it stopped cheating on the Switch lol. Nintendo, now has no excuse, they can afford to hire a good, dedicated, security team with our online monies.

I'm not. I'm calling searching your console and banning you when you don't even have the programs to cheat on it. I'm not hacking my Switch because there's not a point at this time and I doubt there will be one.

If your Console has CFW, it has means to cheat, even modifying save files is cheating, which you can do, with base CFW, that is means to cheat.

Also in app purchases are the reason that online is so regulated now. Of course they're going to crack down when they call see you the mods and take away the morality. At this point that's where games are going and Nintendo will get there too in their first party games.

IDK man, I mostly play MMOs so monthly fees and micro transactions do not bother me. They may be new to you guys, I'm use to them.

 

[deinonychus71]

So here's the release date of Smash Bros!

 

[kingfrost]

True, I guess, IDK kind of a rocky territory that one is . Does apple ban you from the app store for jail breaking (I honestly have no idea?).



Making online paid, wont stop cheaters at all, in anyway. However online being payed will give Nintendo more incentives to stop cheaters, because people are paying. Also yes, I would gladly pay 20 dollars a year to stop cheaters, I would pay 20 a month if it stopped cheating on the Switch lol. Nintendo, now has no excuse, they can afford to hire a good, dedicated, security team with our online monies.



If your Console has CFW, it has means to cheat, even modifying save files is cheating, which you can do, with base CFW, that is means to cheat.




IDK man, I mostly play MMOs so monthly fees and micro transactions do not bother me. They may be new to you guys, I'm use to them.

I've not been banned from Apple for jailbreaking my console. However eventually we may find a way to hide it anyway.

Also MMOs are different to me because you pay monthly and you get monthly content usually. Sure they may be expansions or shortcuts but it's not the same as paid online to me because Smash and other games may have DLC or rotating stages but they will never be more than what they are.

But it's a losing battle unless you have a PC.

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

At least one good thing will come of this, for those of us who don't care to play online because the fact we will eventually be banned, is that we will be free to modify our Switch consoles...

I just find it somewhat shitty, that Nintendo is going to begin charging us to play the online modes (although SONY/Microsoft already do it) after we've bought the titles that heavily promote the 12 player online play (Nintendo have never been this greedy?).

 

[DarkCrudus]

Oh geeze, I better preorder my online subscription. Would hate for them to run out before I get a chance to get it. /s

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

Would hate for them to run out before I get a chance to get it. /s

I bet the Nintendo scalpers already have their eyes set on reselling these at a hiked price of $100, since there is no new Classic Console this fall.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

I bet the Nintendo scalpers already have their eyes set on reselling these at a hiked price of $100, since there is no new Classic Console this fall.

That is a good point, I didn't even think of that. They better hurry up and add the family pack to US Amazon Preorder.

I already pre ordered both the Lets Go games, and 2 of their Pokeballs. I'm going to be pre-ordered out soon.

 

[geodeath]

Pre-order an online subscription? Just when you thought flat-earthers have scraped the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

That is a good point, I didn't even think of that. They better hurry up and add the family pack to US Amazon Preorder.

I already pre ordered both the Lets Go games, and 2 of their Pokeballs. I'm going to be pre-ordered out soon.

The Poké Balls are going to be an item short on stock, because Nintendo are one of these companies that produces less than the demand (kids will want them). But if you've already got yours pre-ordered while the pre-orders are open, you've basically struck gold (scalpers will have them at $90-150 until Nintendo produce more - Christmas is their target).

I don't think the NSOL family package will be on Amazon, but Nintendo have confirmed it will be available on their website and the eShop.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

So this is very good to see.



It appears as if Nintendo isn't playing around this time, first the CDN guys, now the Splatoon hackers. Whether hombrewers get banned or not, IDRC, I have 2 systems, for that reason. However cheaters need the Hammer period! Whether they think what they are doing is harmless or not.

 

[FAST6191]

I don't know if I would go that far.

It's all in the game, very much a possibility and I have no moral or other objection to Nintendo having such things as a goal and attempting to fulfil it, however at the same time I have no problem with people furrytoothing it up and bypassing the checks.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

I don't know if I would go that far.

It's all in the game, very much a possibility and I have no moral or other objection to Nintendo having such things as a goal and attempting to fulfil it, however at the same time I have no problem with people furrytoothing it up and bypassing the checks.

Was that to me? It's very vague, and in the context kind of confusing.

I just noticed, in my post I said "All hackers need to be banned" I meant cheaters, I edited it to reflect that, it was late when I wrote that.

I have no problem with people furytoothibg their way through either, as long as they don't then open Splatoon and give then self rapid firing blasters, or blasters with greater range than a sniper rifle. That doesn't make the game fun, enable God Mode on SP games all day, don't waste my time with it by using it online.

BTW both of the things I just mentioned, are already happening, along with other stuff.

 

[FAST6191]

The original said hackers which was what I was picking up on. Cheating online to win seems pointless, cheating online where it does not (and I would include generating legal pokemon in that) is OK by me. No issue with any such people facing a ban but as far as getting any kind of worked up then I am going to reserve that for the former.

That said if Splatoon can manifest such items and the online allows it then that speaks more to suspect coding on the part of the devs. Granted in games "nobody cares about security until it happens to them" seems to be a lesson that gets to be routinely relearned. Though I suppose it will also work out here if it is that local and server side calculations are what they are.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

The original said hackers which was what I was picking up on. Cheating online to win seems pointless, cheating online where it does not (and I would include generating legal pokemon in that) is OK by me. No issue with any such people facing a ban but as far as getting any kind of worked up then I am going to reserve that for the former.

That said if Splatoon can manifest such items and the online allows it then that speaks more to suspect coding on the part of the devs. Granted in games "nobody cares about security until it happens to them" seems to be a lesson that gets to be routinely relearned. Though I suppose it will also work out here if it is that local and server side calculations are what they are.

Splatoon can't manifest those items, it's not save file manipulation, it is a game modifaction. The issue with Splatoon is there is no server sided code, it's all P2P .

As for the Pokemon thing, we just have to agree to disagree. As a longtime HC MMO player, Time investment is a part of the competition, generating Pokemon alleviates that, giving them an unfair advantage.

I can see how an ESports player, could see things differently however. That is more of the market that does that I feel.

However if you PvPed me in say WoW, and I have conquest gear (back when there was conquest gear) that I worked to cap conquest every week, for months, and you just generated yours, well I would not think that okay. Pokemon is the exact same situation in reality.

I think there is an easy solution to the Pokemon issue, make 2 games. 1, where it is what it is made to be, an RPG with Online PvP, and the other a showdown style Pokemon game. I understand why those that gen don't want to just play showdown, as there is no VGC, so give it a league of it's own, both audiences are met.

 

[FAST6191]

Would still maintain that the game could be coded such that even a p2p system could phone home, get a server side challenge (incorporate random number in memory locations blah/salt it, hash and send back, maybe combine with a every so often fast turnaround recompile style update meaning it all has to be figured out every two weeks or so) and prevent such things almost trivially.

On pokemon the conclusion I came to was a fairly minimal time investment (even ignoring importing from older games I think I saw people get it down to long weekend, chuck in a couple of mates and yeah), no skill investment/requirement and play is almost immediately at best stats, end level and thus it played. The MMO stuff is then a different thing to consider as the time investment is far more considerable.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

Would still maintain that the game could be coded such that even a p2p system could phone home, get a server side challenge (incorporate random number in memory locations blah/salt it, hash and send back, maybe combine with a every so often fast turnaround recompile style update meaning it all has to be figured out every two weeks or so) and prevent such things almost trivially.

On pokemon the conclusion I came to was a fairly minimal time investment (even ignoring importing from older games I think I saw people get it down to long weekend, chuck in a couple of mates and yeah), no skill investment/requirement and play is almost immediately at best stats, end level and thus it played. The MMO stuff is then a different thing to consider as the time investment is far more considerable.

I agree, Splatoon needs to make some changes to prevent this stuff as well, hopefully Nintendo will do that, fingers crossed as the game is fun, unless you are being sniped across the map with the guy in his safe zone lol.

MMOs, do require a much larger time investment, in most cases I agree.

And yes on some things you could breed the money very fast, in others, like the Shiny 6IV Landerous, that is litteraly a 1 in a billion chance, and you will like never get one with out Genning. Ya that's where it becomes a problem more than anywhere else. The shiny part, IDRC, the 6IV one time catch unbreedable mons, that without Genning, you have to Soft Reset until the button falls off, ya that's a problem.

I also don't like that is what the meta game has become, full team 6IV legendary mons. It takes all the fun out of it, trying odd ball teams ECT, people will just walk in with there impossible to get in normal gameplay Legendaries, and wipe the floor with you.

Getting a legendary that is 6IVs from Soft Reseting is one thing, getting one that is 6IVs, has the correct moves, is the correct nature, that is something completely different, and no longer a time gate, as the probability if that happening is extreme low. If you do manage to get that by SRs, then RNG loves you, but it doesn't matter others will just gen it.

 

[Mark McDonut]

ah, "Software as a service" where you pay a blanket fee and don't even have anything to show for it when it expires.

As if we aren't "renting" enough software or operating systems already.

 

[the_randomizer]

So this is very good to see.



It appears as if Nintendo isn't playing around this time, first the CDN guys, now the Splatoon hackers. Whether hombrewers get banned or not, IDRC, I have 2 systems, for that reason. However cheaters need the Hammer period! Whether they think what they are doing is harmless or not.

So maybe people should play fair and play online the way it was intended?

 

[DeletedMember411838]

So maybe people should play fair and play online the way it was intended?

Yes it is very good, I am very happy to see this. Nintendo needs to stop cheaters.