Nintendo continues it's terrible online rampage

Nintendo Switch requires weekly online check-in to play NES games

You'll need to connect your Nintendo Switch to the internet every seven days to keep playing your NES games.

The Virtual Console-style catalogue of retro classics comes as part of Nintendo Switch's upcoming online subscription. But you'll need to remember to connect at least every week in order to guarantee access - even if your subscription is a long way from expiring.

If you have an online subscription you're likely to be playing online regularly, although maybe you're heading on holiday? Or maybe you only play on the bus without internet and are subscribing just to play retro games?

Nintendo's method is different to how PlayStation Plus and Xbox Games with Gold titles work on PS4 and Xbox One. Both Sony and Microsoft let you play offline as long as you like if the games are downloaded to your "home" console.

And here's another wrinkle. Nintendo will not keep your cloud save data if your online subscription runs out.

Sounds like what MS tried to do in 2013 but its okay since this is Nintendo.

Smh........ not interested in the NES games but I don't like this at all.

Years and years I've been hearing good Nintendo won't charge for online. Mind you, cows spouted the same nonsense. But Nintendo, out of them all, has been extra cancer.

It actually sounds worse. Even if you're paying up $$$ they will screw you over lol

Stamping round closing emulator websites, a shitty service that offers pretty much, nothing. And now the only thing Nintendo fanboys were praising is essentially a prisoner with a gun to it's head.

But yea, you're right, Nintendo goobers will defend this shit.

Microsoft tried to do this to us those pieces of crap

I think my Switch is connected pretty much 24/7. Not to and from work, which is about 2 hours a day. So that's not a problem. And I have never had a Nintendo system break (I've owned them all except Virtual Boy), and I highly doubt my Switch will, so I don't really care about the cloud saving.

I have a shitload of other problems with their online though.

Lol the Nintendo lineup really got all the cows running scared:)

Please show us on this doll where Microsoft touched you. ROFLMAO!

I wonder if you don't login after a week, they just think you are no longer a sub and just delete your cloud saves.

Weekly check ins... ohh how f'n terrible, how will I cope

Years and years I been playing flawess monster hunts without a hitch... your definition of cancer needs some adjusting

Friendly reminder - Steam has cloud saves, family sharing, built in streaming, picture storage, built in discord, built in streaming, free full games, voice chat, anti-cheat software, moddable controller configs, workshop support and a whole suite of features with no time limit or requirement to purchase a game for the price currently of -

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A crappy toy deserves a crappy network.

You can't even backup your saves.

@enzyme36: You have no idea what I'm talking about.

But but paid service is better./s

Friendly double reminder - Valve support profit and non-profit fan projects of IP's they own.

Right... who could... that last sentence barely correlates to the first 2.

But whats clear is your relating Nintendo to cancer... and I called you on it.

Worse than this is the way they shut down rom sites because some "Pirates" that can't afford their game might play their game instead of buying a mini console.

@ProtossRushX: "Microsoft tried to do this to us those pieces of crap"

You need help. Seriously.

Well that ends nexrt week.

Indeed it does... its a shame too.

Kind of lame that you have to log in at least once every seven days to keep playing those games that they provide for subscribing to the service but not really that big of a deal in my opinion. Surely they could have done it a better way though but whatever.

I’m most concerned with the cloud saves getting erased. However if all game saves are done both locally and on the cloud simultaneously then I guess this shouldn’t really be an issue either.

Yeaahhhhh I wasn't interested in the online service to begin with. Playing NES games online for the first time just isn't compelling.

Remember my Wii U breaking down and losing everything, Nintendo always was a shit and anti-consumer company more that others.

no remember the 24 hour ping check in microsoft wanted to check in like every 24 hours or you were locked out of your games or something.

MICROSOFT was gonna do something like this people must have forgotten it or something thats why some people went playstation because they don't have internet access like on nuclear submarines if they wanted to play xbox one they couldn't check in and they said buy a 360 if you don't have internet access its an offline device!

But 20 dollars a year is nothing to have my games and my online held ransom :(

Let me get this straight....the Virtual Console is now formally dead, correct? The only way I can gain access to Nintendo's legacy now is through a subscription to their online service that affords abysmal features, and games that will be taken back upon its cessation? They just keep outdoing themselves. It's like they make an effort to do worse and worse as time goes on.

The phone app thing just annoys me why can't Nintendo get with the times.

Deleting cloud saves is the true abhorrence. I get why they’re doing it but it’s rather scummy.

@ProtossRushX: You are raging about an MS policy THAT NEVER HAPPENED on an thread about a Nintendo console that HAS a similar policy.

Your MS hatred is frankly bizarre.

Netflix, Spotify, they all do this. So if you stop paying they end your access until you pay.

When Sony followed Microsoft Nintendo was never too far behind. At least it's the cheapest of the three.

So you stopped paying and they should...keep your saves which are a part of the service. How is that fair? Don't worry, stay subbed and your saves are safe or will be reuploaded. This is making a big deal out of nothing, like the internet always does.

It should be cheaper with what it offers, which is barelly nothing.

I never understood anyone getting the Switch. Each to their own like. But this just makes me wonder even more.

What is the point of a Switch?

If someone gave me money to buy a Switch, I'd rather go out and spend it on a PS Vita.

So not only do they delete your cloud saves if your sub expires but they require weekly check-ins in order to keep your nes games?

sounds like $20 well spent..........

Well, it offers mostly the same.

Online play, discounts on games, and a free game or two every month or so.

Voice chat is negligible. So what's missing, group chat options I suppose, trophies?

Free NES games on the Switch for 20 bucks.

That is like PS4 getting PS1 games for Plus.

You are insane to think that the price can negate all the issues it has.

It wouldn't be a big deal if Nintendo allowed for saves to be made locally. Any defense for that, aside accusations of entitlement?

Well, okay, so the NES games are lower quality offering, but it is 20 for a whole year. I dunno man, that's pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things. Not even half of what the others cost.

Another reason to not support Nintendo's online.

You mean allow them to be saved onto memory cards?

SD cards, yes.

Ok, the service is cheap. Then why isn't the console and the games cheap? You can get an Xbox and 1 year of Gold for the price of a Switch.

@MirkoS77: All games save locally regardless...

On the system, sure. It breaks, you lose it all unless you are subscribed to Nintendo's online. There's no reason why they couldn't offer an SD card option.

Guess I won’t be playing MK online anymore.

I only really play my Switch when I go out of town but have been wanting to play it at home.

But check ins?

What am I a high school kid out on a Friday night?

Nintendo still as anti-consumer as ever, nothing new here lol