So with this recent Nintendo Direct, we learned about the online subscription service and it feels incredibly half-baked to me. It feels like an afterthought. Like a businessman peeking over the garden wall to see what the neighbors have that they don't but feel they probably should have. For $20, you get cloud saves, BUT it won't cloud save everything, you get access to online multiplayer features, BUT we've had that for over a year for free and free ever since the original Wii, so why are we forced to pay now? I liked Nintendo for being so accessible and not having to buy into a gated live service over it's contemporaries. That was a huge selling point for me personally. You get access to a paltry handful of classic Nintendo games, you know, the ones they constantly throw out there and force you to rebuy every console iteration? They say it will expand its selection every month, but come on, I was there for your virtual console stores on the Wii, WiiU and 3DS. Those titles came out at a trickle and you expect me to believe that you're going to have a compelling library of rotating games monthly? Like, you couldn't even throw out a SNES game or a GBA or heaven forbid an N64 or GameCube era game to show us how committed you are to this feature? Honestly when they went after EMU Paradise and those other ROM sites I thought they might actually just do it and make all of those old games available on a virtual console but nope, doesn't look like that's gonna be the case. It just baffles me how forward thinking and innovative they can be while at the same time being so draconian at the same time. I don't even want to get started on those NES controllers that only work on the NES games bundled with a year of subscription. Can someone tell me Nintendo's rationale for any of this? It just seems like they're doing all of this because everyone else is doing it. I miss the Miis and the Mii Plaza.
