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Online Service’s Free Virtual Console Games Expire After One Month

Nintendo’s website describing the benefits of their paid online service seem intentionally vague. The description for the ‘Monthly Game Download…

So, unless I’m misunderstanding this, you would be given a free game in March, could play it for free throughout March, and then should you try to play it in April or afterwards you’d have to purchase the game.

Nintendo, please, please stop disappointing me and tell me this isn’t true.

({ok, i read it, sounds more like you’re renting the game, it’s 50/50 in my book depending on what the prices would be})

Given that the titles offered are virtual console NES and SNES titles that have been on the virtual console for years, and available in general circulation for decades, they wouldn’t charge much.  That’s not the point though.  The rentals are your incentive to pay for the subscription, which is a far cry from what is done by both Sony and Microsoft with their own comparable services.

With Sony and Microsoft you pay $5-8/month and you are given 2-8 relatively new games completely free, while also getting discounts and sales not available to those who don’t pay for the service.

With Nintendo’s plan you pay $5 a month to rent a 30 year old game for 4 weeks before you have to pay for it.

({ um, microsoft? yeah no, besides tat they made it so you had to by an internet adapter and install it, or you had to pa more for the one with an adapter built in, and each month? um, no that’s dependent on what you pay, 1,5,8 or a year are what you pay to have, it’s not monthly thing(for plus and live, even though live silver is free, but it may as well not exist), i never really played online anyway or bought digital copies(for many reasons), so i don’t care anyway})

You apparently haven’t been on an Xbox in years.  The external adapter was abandoned halfway through the Xbox 360, prior to the Kinect being introduced, and is completely missing from the One and later models of the 360 which have native wifi.  You pay for a year at a time, but it equates to $5-8 per month.  With Gold you get 2 Xbone games a month, and 2 Xbox 360 games a month, which happen to be backwards compatible on the Xbone.

That aside, there’s still the matter of Nintendo trying to compete with a severely inferior model of rewards for a paid service, especially since the paid service does not run online services like party, voice, or messaging, through the system itself but instead requires a smartphone app that will only work while your subscription is active.

(via dahlia-and-shadowsong)