Hopes for Nintendo Switch Online

Bob Craples

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A place where you post your hopes for Nintendo Switch Online! (Duh.)
 
My hope is that they go back to the free Nintendo Network ID or even better, just come and play multiplayer, like MKDS, MKWII and MK7.
 
1. Free, please.
2. If I have to keep paying, you might as well give me bonus themes besides black and white. (Anyone up for a SSBU, Tetris 99 or SMO theme?)
3. I do appreciate the retro games, though. That's not necessarily a hope, but I would like N64 on it.
4. Uh... that's, uh.... kind of it.
 
Mason Pines said:
2. If I have to keep paying, you might as well give me bonus themes besides black and white. (Anyone up for a SSBU, Tetris 99 or SMO theme?)
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I don't even know why there's even a themes option. It would make more sense if it was a switch, like on Twitter or YouTube.
 
- Retro games. N64 through to Wii U. And handhelds.
- Make it free
- If not free then let us play all the new games while the subscription is going. A la Xbox Game Pass.
 
Obviously, if it's free it would be better, because that will be the biggest obstacle cleared. If they insist that it needs to be a charged service, there should be more robust and useful features to justify the service.

  1. Cloud saves are a great start, although it should ideally be for every game without exceptions (Splatoon 2 notably disallows it) and it should not use a roundabout way to restore the save like what Animal Crossing: New Horizons did.
  2. Better deals for digital games, so maybe for example those with the service could have a greater discount like from 30% to 40%, or perhaps the awarded gold coins could be increased. Vouchers are an interesting approach but it's still kind of pricey given how there's not much discount from it, and getting 2 $50 games defeat the purpose of getting it.
  3. Monthly free games, which could be something small like I guess The Stretchers or an indie game like Golf Story. I suppose since the subscription's not so pricey it might be a bit smaller-scale like a more attractive discount or just being one of the "time-limited free" games. I think what they did with Tetris 99 and Super Mario Bros 35 fall under this category, although it's obviously not monthly and those are original games with a nice hook.
  4. A greatly reduced payment if the user already has an equivalent game in their receipt before a certain date, like for example if they have already got Pikmin 3, then for a very small price they can get its Deluxe version instead of getting it at full price.
  5. It's not necessarily for me but I can see how releasing a game digitally a bit ahead of time from its release date, like maybe 4 hours if they pre-purchased it, would be welcomed for exclusively subscribers.
These ideas may not be wholly original nor it might not be the best ones, but at the very least it would justify the need to subscribe it since it's needed for online play.

Thank you for reading.