Nintendo has doubled its commitment to his paid Switch to online subscription service in its latest corporate strategy Briefing with investors. Despite complaints above that Quality and price of the newly added Expansion Pack tiersaid the company it will continue to “strive to provide services that satisfy consumers”.
“Last month we released Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, a new membership plan, the additional one Content to the existing Service “, Nintendo wrote in the briefing. In the future we will both be Nintendo. further improve and expand Switch offnline and Nintendo Change online + expansion package We strive to provide services that satisfy consumers. “
The company also announced that the paid subscription service, which enables online gaming and cloud storage, now has 32 million users, up six million from the same period last year. That’s roughly a third of the Switches sold by Nintendo, with the caveat that the 32 million figure counts every person included in a family subscription.
Rival service PlayStation Plus that costs more than double, has 46 million subscribers, during Game Pass, a Netflix-like library of newer games, had 18 million subscribers at the beginning of the year. That number has grown since then, despite Microsoft no longer shares what it is.
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The expansion pack released last month has been added: loads of N64 and Sega Genesis games to Switch Online, but only for people willing to upgrade to a new $ 50 per year price tag, making it a more direct competitor to PS Plus and Game Pass. The new tier also includes the paid ones Happy Home Paradise DLC to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
But that price hike was too much for some people to swallow, especially when players realized that the Expansion Pack’s N64 emulation was did not correspond to the usual quality level of Nintendo. The trailer it was originally announced in is now Nintendos most disapproved youtube video of all time with 165,000 dislikes.
An easy way how Nintendo Switch Online could keep improving and expanding? Finally add the Game Boy and Game Boy Color games that have been around for a long time to be reported Iforthcoming and make it part of the $ 20 annual base subscription.
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