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Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack pricing revealed: yearly $49.99 individual, $79.99 family, will include Animal Crossing DLC as a bonus
- Thread starter Atheerios
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For those of you complaining that N64 / Genesis virtual consoles aren't worth the extra money how bout you just... don't fuckin' buy it and stick with the $19.99 plan? Not that hard.
I imagine it'll make more sense a year from now if/when we see more dlc expansions added to the service for free. It's actually kinda brilliant marketing. Eventually there will be a game you own that gets a $20-30 expansion you want that is free on NSO+, so that'll get you to upgrade to the expansion pack. Then because you've upgraded suddenly games you may have passed on like Animal Crossing or the next Pokemon suddenly have all this free dlc content for you to try if you buy it.
Sounds like something I won't buy till it has some DLC I care about included. If I was still actively playing Animal Crossing and felt whatever DLC was announced for it was worth that much, I'd just spring for the Expansion Pak. But I'm not, so it's a no go for me right now.
*EuropeGosh America got screwed in pricing. Here's how it is in the UK
Then welcome to the same problem everyone who wants to play online, but has no interest in the old NES/SNES games, has. Subsciption services are almost all about fleecing you out of money by saying "BUT WE'VE GOT SO MUCH CONTENT!" even if you only care about one specific thing.
They need to get rid of borders on NES & SNES apps. For N64 it works out to £2.91 month so I'll go for it!
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I can stomach it because I share the service with 4 others so its still less than $5 a month but they better update the shit outa those N64 and Genesis apps.
If you aren't into Animal Crossing, thats a lot of yearly money for N64 and Genesis ROMs...
And even if you are into Animal Crossing, if they aren't adding significant content for games you like to play every year to this pass you're better off just buying the standalone DLC.
Bad deal IMO.
And even if you are into Animal Crossing, if they aren't adding significant content for games you like to play every year to this pass you're better off just buying the standalone DLC.
Bad deal IMO.
Gotcha. I knew there was a free update coming, I didn't know there was also paid dlc. I guess I gotta watch the Direct to see what the difference is.
I hope I can buy the N64 controller without upgrading...
I guess the designer section would be locked out, but any modifications you made to your own island would remain... otherwise you would have data corruption issues with save files.
You need to consider its value now, not the 'promise' of something in the future
if they add those the same way they're doing right now, the yearly individual sub is gonna be $100.
Just saw the EU prices.....that's not too bad at all.
I wasn't expecting much from the service outside of the classic games but Nintendo might be ready to offer more interesting stuff for that price. Don't think it's gonna stay at AC DLC, Mega Drive and 64 games.
I wasn't expecting much from the service outside of the classic games but Nintendo might be ready to offer more interesting stuff for that price. Don't think it's gonna stay at AC DLC, Mega Drive and 64 games.
Said this in the Direct thread, but I'm guessing other games might get similar treatments. Perhaps they'll rotate things around, or just keep adding to it. $30 is quite a lot for just N64 and Genesis games, even if it is still cheaper than something like PS+.
Personally I don't mind the increase as I can afford it, and in the UK it seems we've fared slightly better as it has gone from £18 to £35. EDIT: Or not, we actually pay more for the regular yearly membership haha, so it's about the same.
Personally I don't mind the increase as I can afford it, and in the UK it seems we've fared slightly better as it has gone from £18 to £35. EDIT: Or not, we actually pay more for the regular yearly membership haha, so it's about the same.
Came here to complain about the "insane" until my partner told me "hold on, the new AC DLC is included!".
So now we don't have to purchase this twice for 50 bucks, amazing. 😊
So now we don't have to purchase this twice for 50 bucks, amazing. 😊
Depending on how many DLC packs/emulators they decide to include in the future this could eventually be a pretty cool idea.
I missed that bit, too. Hmm, good point though. That'd be a shame if so (and peak Nintendo lol)
EDIT: lol peak
My younger brother and an irl friend are also on my nso family plan, and I already share games with another friend so that wouldn't work for my sister. The switch is also a gift for my sister and her family for her birthday/xmas, so I'm making sure she's fully covered and with a 4 year old, no added confusion or stress.
So, from 35 USD to 80 USD for the family pass.
That's up from 4.4 USD per person per year, to 10 USD per person.
I personally really don't think it's much, but I'll have to ask the others on my family pass whether they think it's worth it or not...
That's up from 4.4 USD per person per year, to 10 USD per person.
I personally really don't think it's much, but I'll have to ask the others on my family pass whether they think it's worth it or not...
I am going to "ouch broken heart" the shit out of this on the switch news feed. Take that Nintendo!
PS+ is 59€ VS 69€ for Nintendo so it's actually more expensive.
Other account on the same PS can use your PS+ so I compare it with the family sub.
I dunno.
The price is steep I was expecting something along the $30 range. I suppose it works itself out to $25 if you factor out the AC DLC, but being only kind of lukewarm about a Happy Home Designer sequel, I'm not completely sold, but it's not out of the realm of possibility for me yet.
In any event, unlike the current NSO which I have set up to just auto-renew, I certainly would keep this as a one time purchase and only renew if there was another DLC offer for a future game that I was interested in. I know that's basically admitting to just renting the N64 (and Genesis games I guess) for $25 rather than purchasing, but for a year that seems fine. But for $50 it's probably too much, so any DLC bundled in would have to clinch it. Still not completely sure about the Animal Crossing DLC though.
The price is steep I was expecting something along the $30 range. I suppose it works itself out to $25 if you factor out the AC DLC, but being only kind of lukewarm about a Happy Home Designer sequel, I'm not completely sold, but it's not out of the realm of possibility for me yet.
In any event, unlike the current NSO which I have set up to just auto-renew, I certainly would keep this as a one time purchase and only renew if there was another DLC offer for a future game that I was interested in. I know that's basically admitting to just renting the N64 (and Genesis games I guess) for $25 rather than purchasing, but for a year that seems fine. But for $50 it's probably too much, so any DLC bundled in would have to clinch it. Still not completely sure about the Animal Crossing DLC though.
Gosh America got screwed in pricing. Here's how it is in the UK
Huh?
Screwed?
80 USD = around £60.
50 USD = around £35.
Give or take some a couple of dollars/pounds.
If anything, the apparent screwage is only because we were paying more to start with for NSO.
That's a little steep for me tbh. If more is added down the line to increase the value proposition, maybe. Not worth it as it stands now.
The big update that "completes" AC is free. The brand new game (because Happy Home Designer was an entirely separate and unique game previously and that's what this DLC is a sequel to) is $25 when they previously sold Happy Home Designer for $40. It was expensive then for sure, but I don't think the way AC is handling stuff on its own is all that bad right now.
