18th September 2018, 7:13 AM
Today's the day Nintendo Switch Online goes paid! It's so exciting... :S
On the subject of cloud saves, Steam, GOG, and Microsoft (Xbox or PC) all have free, unlimited cloud saves. Sony (Playstation) will keep cloud saves for six months after your PSN subscription runs out, but not longer. Nintendo, of course, so far won't promise to keep your saves for any amount of time. Awesome.
As for the rest, you'll be able to play those NES games you have downloaded (presuming they let you do this, which it sounds like they will) for a week, but then the online check will block it. Given that it's probably a Netflix-ish service and not games you buy, and you can't buy things outside of the service, having a check does make some sense thinking about it; otherwise you could keep everything while not subscribed, which doesn't make Nintendo money after all. It's annoying, and online checks for single player games are not good, but they'd have to do something, yes? Capitalism...
I'd like to think that everybody who isn't Nintendo realizes how true this is, but the massive decline in services from the Wii U to the Switch is baffling and really unfortunate. They went from a reasonably decent set of online features to some of the worst in the industry!
Quote:Cloud saves should just work, developers shouldn't get to decide which games I can back up, and those games they are "giving out" are old NES games. Just- let them work even if I cancel the subscription, only turning off the online functions.
On the subject of cloud saves, Steam, GOG, and Microsoft (Xbox or PC) all have free, unlimited cloud saves. Sony (Playstation) will keep cloud saves for six months after your PSN subscription runs out, but not longer. Nintendo, of course, so far won't promise to keep your saves for any amount of time. Awesome.
As for the rest, you'll be able to play those NES games you have downloaded (presuming they let you do this, which it sounds like they will) for a week, but then the online check will block it. Given that it's probably a Netflix-ish service and not games you buy, and you can't buy things outside of the service, having a check does make some sense thinking about it; otherwise you could keep everything while not subscribed, which doesn't make Nintendo money after all. It's annoying, and online checks for single player games are not good, but they'd have to do something, yes? Capitalism...
Quote: And, to repeat a point, the cell phone thing should be just one option for voice chat. The system OS should allow the creation of parties with friends, where you voice chat, and the party should be carried automatically from one game to the next and back out to the menu seamlessly, one continuous chat. This is a bare minimum expected feature of online gaming now, and really Nintendo, it's all you have to do.
I'd like to think that everybody who isn't Nintendo realizes how true this is, but the massive decline in services from the Wii U to the Switch is baffling and really unfortunate. They went from a reasonably decent set of online features to some of the worst in the industry!
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