Ok, i am living a lie. Somehow, i am working in the web industry for 15+ years, paying for servers all my professional life and suddenly i decided to troll a board of friendly nintendo users just to make my point.
To put it simply, answer me this, with conclusive hard evidence: WHO was paying for it for the DS, 3DS, Wii, WiiU? Find out where the cash came from and let me know cause last time i checked, a one time software that costs £30-50 does not pay for a server for a long time. I do not disagree that they were probably subsidising it, all i am saying is, try to find a rock hard way to pay for it no matter what the sales are. Even if the price of the game subsidised the server price, by giving 5-10% off the game price to maintain the servers, i would *still* prefer to pay full price for a game and full price for the service as i do not care 1 monkey's ass about any multiplayer whatsoever, so taking money from me to put it where i will not enjoy it seems like an inefficiency to me.
As to the fact they want more money, it is obvious. They can do much better to get more money though, but this is another story...
What about steam and thousands of online games with no monthly costs? PSN that operated for years without pay subscription? Sure there are costs, but don't think for a minute that Nintendo can't afford them. The real problem here is mostlikely corporate. They didn't make enough money with the WiiU for the share holders, now they are looking for means to make more.
There is absolutely nothing appealing to me with the Switch. Price, performance, library, are all turn offs for me. My galaxy note 5 is just about a better machine than the switch. Much higher resolution VS 0.5 inch smaller screen. I can play for hours non stop , and still finish the day with enough battery. With so many 3rd party developpers that no longer support nintendo, the library is not likely to be much bigger than the failed wiiu. The only reason I might buy it , is when it gets hacked (just like i did with the wiiu). Even with a hacked wiiu , I think i've only played 5 titles , because there is nothing good on the wiiu. Obviously to each is own, but not even zelda can trigger some sort of excitement on my part. I despise the fact that nintendo wants a family oriented console. They seem to forget that those that made them who they are now , are those that played their games in the 90s. All of us teens back then are nearly in their forties now, yet they focus on games for kids. They used to make great hardware and software. Now , hardware is a joke, because they say they want to focus on content, yet the content is targeted for infants, with gadgets. With their hardware so weak , nobody ports their software to it. Just look at how many AAA games release for PC, Xbone, Ps4 , and nothing ever comes out on wiiu. This is probably nintendo's last console anyways. They will just end up releasing zelda, pokemon, mario on other hardware instead. They've already started with their most iconic character, Mario, so..
And their previous online experiences did not give me any reasons to think that paying a monthly fee for online would be justifiable. That boxing game.. looks so awful ... Where do they get the idea that we still want to wiggle wiggle to play games? That fad worked for like 6 months on wii, and by now its long gone. I honestly never met a single person that enjoys motion controls and would play hours wiggling their arms around to move. And that trailer.. so silly.
To all those interested , enjoy and have fun! I personnally , just don't care about it at all. Even zelda , will be the same old useless fucking adventure. Collect pieces of hearts , rupees , boring and useless quests , stupid audio clips like Navi's "Listen" and link just making noises. If they ever make zelda a real adventure , and not just linear progress, then maybe i'd play it again. Spoiler: Link starts with no sword , no shield , then you must find a wooden sword , shield , buy a wallet , run around collecting rupees that no longer are of any use 5 hours into the game. Rinse , repeat , let's make another Zelda in 5 years..
