Yeah. Let's Talk About Nintendo Switch Online.

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  • Nintendo Switch Online. I wanted to hold my tongue until the service launched, but now I think it's time to talk a little bit about it.
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    / arlostuff
    TWOOTER: @ArloStuff
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    Video credits:
    (No one tell Zack Scott that I stole his footage, he'll be SUPER mad.)
    drive.google.com/file/d/19vCm...
    This video was edited by the lovely Farfetch'd Reviews!
    / farfetchdreviews
    "Reloaded Installer #7" by LHS.
    / @lhschiptunes
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  • @ColdTiger
    @ColdTiger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +888

    The online service should be free, so we can say "it's bad, but at least it's free"

    • @stakefr0mjatefarmvods534
      @stakefr0mjatefarmvods534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      The existence of PC multiplayer games invalidates any excuse anyone has for paid online. It's existed, and continues to exist, for free, no strings attached.

    • @linktidal2902
      @linktidal2902 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ColdTiger77 I think it’s good right now tbh. 20 bucks for a year and you get nes and maybe even snes games (In the future) plus it makes hacking and smurfing pretty hard to do unless you have some money to throw around.

    • @jucedogi
      @jucedogi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@stakefr0mjatefarmvods534 this is only true while the game is bringing in profits. Basically servers for a game to play it online are paid by the income said game makes. Be it the base cost of the game or any other income made by extra content said game may have. You can't expect a company to go into losses to provide online connectivity. Many older games still have online play thanks to people that put up their own servers due to the love they have for those games.

    • @stakefr0mjatefarmvods534
      @stakefr0mjatefarmvods534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jucedogi Servers cost basically nothing to run unless it's an MMO. Unless literally no one is playing the game, they're not operating at a loss, and I'd they are, it's a miniscule loss.

    • @jucedogi
      @jucedogi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stakefr0mjatefarmvods534 server cost is relative to various variables and while true MMO's cost more others do cost also. Independent of this no company is obligated to run them at a loss.

  • @SneakTheOcto
    @SneakTheOcto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1697

    “We paid 8 dollars for lag?”
    “I paid 20!”

    • @Daniel328DT
      @Daniel328DT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      $35 a year for lag. Heck that's nothing

    • @ikennasmash1030
      @ikennasmash1030 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      If that ain't a Spongebob movie reference, idk

    • @badtaco14
      @badtaco14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      10/10 SpongeBob reference

    • @Zkyball
      @Zkyball 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Best Spongebob Reference....rip Stephen Hillenburg.......But still this get a rating of over 9001/10

    • @gavtv6541
      @gavtv6541 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "i paid 60 for lag on xbox"

  • @sandmanxd9950
    @sandmanxd9950 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1993

    YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE NINTENDO!!! YOU WHERE SUPOSED TO DESTROY THE COMPETITION NOT JOIN THEM!!!

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      The competition had cookies

    • @Daniel328DT
      @Daniel328DT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      You were my favorite gaming company Nintendo. Nintendo: GIVE ME MONEY!

    • @Spingerex
      @Spingerex 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      You can't go wrong with cookies unless they don't have your preferred type.

    • @justinmunoz5366
      @justinmunoz5366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      WHY NINTENDO

    • @literalyjustafrog7054
      @literalyjustafrog7054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Great value bleach nice reference

  • @Vienna3080
    @Vienna3080 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1301

    I pay $90 for internet why would I pay $20 to be able to use that internet

    • @Shenaldrac
      @Shenaldrac 5 ปีที่แล้ว +243

      After you already paid $60 for the game itself too, don't forget!

    • @snitzledck2
      @snitzledck2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Shenaldrac
      Watch this apply to SMM2 😔

    • @thechainsawnigga2543
      @thechainsawnigga2543 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      IT DID RIP

    • @ConservativeJuggaloPodcast
      @ConservativeJuggaloPodcast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Vienna The Grill its $3.99 a month the $20 is for a year subscription. U pay it to play Switch games online with other players and also to get NES games to play. That’s why

    • @sunset4453
      @sunset4453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      If you only care about online play it really isnt worth it, after all it uses peer to peer connection. Which means they're charging you (or the other depending who gets to be the host) to use your own internet.

  • @nice-guyhunter4013
    @nice-guyhunter4013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    “It’s fine... on paper.”
    *has paper Mario music playing in background*

    • @xenobestx8423
      @xenobestx8423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah...I just noticed that...
      Also, Arlo stole Zack Scott footage. *I think I’m gonna regret that comment*
      *Now if you excuse me I’m gonna go back to playing Mega Man until 11 comes out you take care.*

    • @KanesTheName
      @KanesTheName 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I desperately tried to find a way to edit in a Paper Mario reference, but nothing quite worked right. Great minds think alike, hehehe

    • @duckknuckles7880
      @duckknuckles7880 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I liked the Arlo-CarlsJr bit. (btw know where i'd be able to get a butternut squash shake?)

    • @hotdog347
      @hotdog347 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paper Mario for Switch confirmed???

    • @bibbidi4616
      @bibbidi4616 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ron? Making a joke.... or just pointing out something that is supposed to be a joke. But then again, to get said joke you’d have to have play paper Mario, a video game. Ron plays video games??

  • @GrimTony
    @GrimTony 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2972

    "Nintendo. They don't understand marketing. They don't understand how to run a business. But they do understand how to make video games." - dunkey

    • @jaydenc367
      @jaydenc367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      and making conzolez

    • @TheSpaceking12
      @TheSpaceking12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +369

      They do understand marketing, and they do understand how to run a business. Their company has only existed for like 130 years. You have to know something to exist that long.
      The problem he’s getting at but didn’t convey right there is the corporate culture at Nintendo is honestly somewhat toxic. All the high positions of power are filled by 65+ year old business suits who have been here even before Nintendo became a game maker. And as such are coming from a totally different perspective then the 40 years old and younger people in the company that know them as a game maker first. This creates a lot of tension up top, especially considering these aren’t any old business suits, these are Kyoto business suits. The strictest, and “oldest school” of them all. They aren’t comfortable with adopting new ideas right away. Never have been never will be.
      Thankfully we’ve seen strides to introduce fresh blood into the company on a large scale. Splatoon was developed by a younger team. Odyssey was developed mostly by a younger team. ARMS. Younger guys. Xenoblade? Monolith employs guys straight outta college. The current president of Nintendo is a guy who grew up with the stuff. The problem is that as new people are pouring in, the older crowd isn’t. They’re very hesitant to step away and leave their corporate empire in the hands of “children” who would ruin what they made.
      Anyways to reiterate. Nintendo is a business that knows how to sustain itself. However, they have trouble evolving.

    • @benjamin_burke
      @benjamin_burke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      "Nintendo does not get online. Nintendo's the guy who's still using Internet Explorer, you know what I'm sayin'? They're still over there using Ask Jeeves."
      -dunkey, 2015

    • @Metalizationer
      @Metalizationer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Because Dunkey is a bucket of wisdom XD

    • @SakuraAvalon
      @SakuraAvalon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Jayden C No, they're not good at that either. lol The Switch is an exception because it's a handheld, which is one of the few things Nintendo gets.

  • @gundarcs
    @gundarcs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    Wii, DS and 3DS all offered free online, that's all i'm saying

    • @CarlosAlberto-nq3iv
      @CarlosAlberto-nq3iv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Lonely Geek You forgot Wii U, but yeah I agree with you.

    • @theunknown0887
      @theunknown0887 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      And GameCube with select games

    • @bensmith5590
      @bensmith5590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I just play smash and mario kart online on my 3DS, for free instead of paying for it on Switch

    • @JoeFresi
      @JoeFresi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ds didnt have online play

    • @mergieismoronic
      @mergieismoronic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Lonely Geek
      It was complet shit though.

  • @Salty-ji1pb
    @Salty-ji1pb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    I swear the Wii U online is more stable then the switche's

    • @galaxymew5138
      @galaxymew5138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      True

    • @Money_Man55
      @Money_Man55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      definitely

    • @blueberrimuffin6682
      @blueberrimuffin6682 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And it's F R E E

    • @actuallylukeryan
      @actuallylukeryan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not my experience AT ALL

    • @kay2z
      @kay2z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I almost never disconnected in splatoon 1, but on splatoon 2 I disconnect so much.

  • @logicalfundy
    @logicalfundy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +750

    What really bugs me, though - they delayed it for a year and it’s basically the same thing as when they announced it. It’s like they decided to do nothing for an entire year and just launched what they were going to launch a year ago. I have to wonder where all of the man hours went.

    • @Solibrae
      @Solibrae 5 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      They had a massive, private Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament to decide which NES games to offer in the "service".

    • @zapazoid8451
      @zapazoid8451 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Waiting for mid smash hype season

    • @waifu_png_pl6854
      @waifu_png_pl6854 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      At least we got more free online

    • @Solid_Hank
      @Solid_Hank 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      While it lasted lol

    • @brad6957
      @brad6957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Splatfan if you're happy that you've avoided a service for longer, it's clear the service is bad

  • @supercullen0047
    @supercullen0047 5 ปีที่แล้ว +476

    We are paying 20 Dollars for...peer to peer connection, some 30 year old games, cloud saves for a select few titles, and special offers they won’t even explain?

    • @Oldsul
      @Oldsul 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Fanboys will defend it though...

    • @BlueTheSquid
      @BlueTheSquid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      To be fair, though, if you’re complaining about $20, I question how you got your Nintendo Switch.

    • @supercullen0047
      @supercullen0047 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Blue Squid ah I was expecting someone to bring up the flimsy “well then how u have da switch!!1!”. First of all, my parents gave it to me and after you save up for something it’s pretty dumb to have to pay even more for it. Second of all, it’s not the money, it’s the fact that it’s just so inconvenient. I have already purchased a 60 dollar game, why should I need another 20 dollars to make the most of it? Nintendo’s service isn’t even worth 20 bucks, the features suck. Like I said, it’s paying for something that was free for almost 4 consoles in a row, cloud saves on certain titles, some 30 year old games and crappy special offers they haven’t explained.

    • @BlueTheSquid
      @BlueTheSquid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @GAS It might be an obvious cash grab but honestly, the low price of it means nothing. Also, the toxicity was uncalled for, which goes to show your maturity.
      @SuperCullen004 I do understand that the Nintendo Switch Online sucks. A lot. However, $20 really isn’t that much. The process of having to setup the payment is rather inconvenient, but once you do so, you’re all good to go.

    • @supercullen0047
      @supercullen0047 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Blue Squid I suppose. I just hope that they fix it. We need to get more dlc for splatoon and mk8 deluxe etc. through the services via offers as well as a bigger game library and server upgrades. Then I’d be all for it. But that’s just my opinion.

  • @jacobdimidik265
    @jacobdimidik265 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    i guess back to playing Mario kart with the CPU's

    • @akacylix5290
      @akacylix5290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hard

    • @titangamingbot2521
      @titangamingbot2521 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akacylix5290 ???

    • @kingcs12
      @kingcs12 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@titangamingbot2521 he was saying that he would put the CPU on hard mode when he play by himself

    • @titangamingbot2521
      @titangamingbot2521 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kingcs12 oh

  • @stillnotsophia2393
    @stillnotsophia2393 5 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    My younger brother got splatoon 2 a few weeks ago for his birthday and now he cant even play online lol it sucks

    • @sikjoking8729
      @sikjoking8729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me too
      #ripsplatoononline

    • @swordking5686
      @swordking5686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here.

    • @ConservativeJuggaloPodcast
      @ConservativeJuggaloPodcast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      still not sophia did u contact Nintendo and try to fix that?

    • @patchhearn8567
      @patchhearn8567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same thing happened to me. I ended up paying. Don't get me wrong I hate Nintendo switch online but what else could I do

    • @joshthesquishy7142
      @joshthesquishy7142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do not like splatoon but wow, I would of pissed on my switch

  • @towwong2822
    @towwong2822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    “Above all, video games are meant to just be one thing: Fun for everyone.”
    *-Satoru Iwata*

    • @MatchTerm
      @MatchTerm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      He would be rolling in his grave if he could see this disaster...

    • @tzootzoo802
      @tzootzoo802 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      f

    • @khalilsommerville9131
      @khalilsommerville9131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Never Forget 😭

    • @Yakubi
      @Yakubi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Rest in Peace. He would be so disappointed right now.

    • @plushmationstudio468
      @plushmationstudio468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He is an amazing Nintendo exclusive producer and will always be in our hearts forever 💖 every Nintendo gamers will never forget him 😊😳

  • @alessandrobozzi7085
    @alessandrobozzi7085 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1005

    When even _Arlo_ says the Online has issues, _the online has issues._

    • @frankcos3333
      @frankcos3333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      When Arlo criticizes Nintendo you KNOW they fucked up

    • @lel2015
      @lel2015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      You guys act as if Arlos the nintendo god

    • @sketcher445
      @sketcher445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      babyMilkDud he is

    • @Willty64
      @Willty64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      babyMilkDud no, they’re saying Arlo is very positive when it comes to nintendo and rarely criticizes them. So when Arlo says he doesnt like something, you know that something is really bad

    • @jaycorto23
      @jaycorto23 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But he still bought it. If you feel very passionate about an issue, don’t buy it! I haven’t gotten the online service (and I won’t until Mario Maker switch) but Nintendo won’t watch this video, but they see his 35 dollars (family plan)

  • @Juno_Kujo
    @Juno_Kujo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    Satoru Iwata would not be happy about Nintendo Switch Online...
    R.I.P Satoru Iwata :'c

    • @dismicrowavetechsupport
      @dismicrowavetechsupport 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      :'(

    • @rodrigodesousapt
      @rodrigodesousapt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      F

    • @PJNyte
      @PJNyte 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @some annoying person did he actually say that?

    • @Melodyofthesea78
      @Melodyofthesea78 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nobody that has a sound mind would make people pay $60 bucks for a game then make them pay for a service that another company is basically not charging people on the PC.....I mean a lot of people these days have a PC why PAY for it when you could bypass it all together? Like for example my friend plays Fortnite on a PC not on any of the consoles he said he'd never buy digital games on a PC or play any multiplayer games on any console because it'll cost him extra money. The guy is not cool with his money he knows how to save it.

    • @Melodyofthesea78
      @Melodyofthesea78 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're already paying micro transactions on some of those games anyway so why pay to play on top of all of that? It makes it even more expensive.

  • @Zeriel00
    @Zeriel00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I play Splatoon Online, we don't have dedicated servers, we don't have save files, we don't have voice chat and we don't have Anti-cheat...
    So WHAT AM I PAYING FOR?????

    • @firenze6478
      @firenze6478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unsubscribe from them

    • @flowergirl8013
      @flowergirl8013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Exactly. It's just a waste of money. I will not pay for it. Ever.

    • @levvvyy2930
      @levvvyy2930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Link I mean if you wanna play smash, Mario kart, splatoon, Mario Maker, and many others to their full extent you gotta

    • @firenze6478
      @firenze6478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      • Levvvyy • that’s the problem!

    • @nintySW
      @nintySW 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Firenze 64 its not a problem, if you work every day of the year for 10 hours a day then you need less than a wage of half a cent per hour to afford online.
      that is 2 times less than xbox and 3 times less than ps
      and if you cant afford 20 a year then you shoulnt even have a switch

  • @BillyBob125
    @BillyBob125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    "They're acting like this is a new thing" - My older brother when Nintendo first played the NSO service trailer at the latest Nintendo Direct.

  • @boomstickmick5652
    @boomstickmick5652 5 ปีที่แล้ว +817

    A fan is not afraid to criticise their favorite company. A fanboy constantly claps and barks their praises like a seal with a chromosome deficiency. Thank you for being a true fan, Arlo.

    • @PoorStargazer
      @PoorStargazer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Arlo out here with the no filter, no BS criticisms.

    • @RedstoneBros
      @RedstoneBros 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I bet I have more chromosomes than you hater

    • @diegorosillo6931
      @diegorosillo6931 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Like Gamexplain for example...

    • @papermario6856
      @papermario6856 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your right.

    • @manidavis4126
      @manidavis4126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      So you can compare a fanboy who have constant praise with people that have Down syndrome?

  • @RealSkelzore
    @RealSkelzore 5 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    I just got a switch, it's my first Nintendo console. I was under the impression that they wouldn't be the type to be like "oh hey you got your parents to buy you a switch for Christmas congrats little guy, awwww. Now get them to pay more money so you can use the online service, even though they already bought you the
    1. System
    2. The game
    3. The actual internet bill
    4. The router and modem
    5. The electricity in your house
    So you own everything you need to play online. Except for our artificial wall we put up, and it's only purpose is for you to pay us $20 more god damned dollars.
    Fuck me.

    • @Flpstrike
      @Flpstrike 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They could atleast made the NES games don't have Slowdowns anymore... but they failed..

    • @thatoneanimator9712
      @thatoneanimator9712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No thanks I’m taken😂

    • @Flpstrike
      @Flpstrike 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who is this dumb fella that appeared and said stuff that I can't translate?

    • @Smoothsmoothie
      @Smoothsmoothie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ya but your parents didn’t buy your electricity, motem, and internet purely for your switch

    • @RealSkelzore
      @RealSkelzore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Smoothsmoothie They didn't buy any of that for me because I live alone and pay for it all myself, lmfao. My point was that my impression based off little to no prior knowledge was that they didn't do things like that so that kids could get a switch without parents finding reasons to turn them down. Such as finding out about a subscription fee.
      Bruh I'm 22 and when my sub runs out on switch I essentially go "ah... wow that sucks... I guess I can't play anything until I find it worth putting more money in this just to play it." Now imagine a kids mom telling them "didn't I just pay *insert amount here* like last week."
      A month or so ago I actually bought MH GU and like the fucktard I am I forgot I didn't have a subscription... I haven't played MH GU since I bought it because I don't feel like paying more lmao.

  • @gormauslander
    @gormauslander 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Paying for peer-to-peer is the same as paying for LAN. You have the switch, which you payed for, and the connection, which you payed for, and now Nintendo wants to tax you for the ability to plug into another device.

  • @ZeroKnight95
    @ZeroKnight95 5 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    "If GameXplain's got an analysis machine, I've got a criticism machine." -Arlo

  • @SdudyoyO
    @SdudyoyO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    Companies you love are not free from criticism. We're putting food on their plates, they should at least consider our opinion if they don't want to lose customers.
    Solutions:
    Servers across the board, at least with games it makes sense. (Looking at you Splatoon!)
    More than just NES games or the confirmation that SNES/N64 games will come sometime in the future, as someone who's too young to have grown up with the NES, I feel the games just don't hold up to modern or even SNES games. I don't have nostalgia for them, so I'm just kinda left with clunky, archaic shells of the games I actually like (Like Super Mario World or Super Metroid or even N64/Gamecube games)
    The ability to back our save files to SD cards, I understand not wanting fans to backup their Pokemon file. We don't want a thousand perfect IV, Shiny, level 100 Pokemon being cloned left and right. If you could backup your Pokemon file, I'm certain at least a few fans would figure out how to abuse the system. But Splatoon? Yeah, I guess people could undo losses in ranked matches IF they learned to abuse the system, but if Nintendo had SERVERS also saving your data as you played online matches, they could detect inconsistencies between the local and server data, and potentially ban players trying to abuse the system multiple times, or just backup the file from their own server whenever you tried to abuse it, I mean: You're online anyway, the file should be backed up after EVERY match. Meaning, after EVERY loss, so you wouldn't be able to have a pre-loss save data floating around in the Cloud.
    Switch online exclusive eShop sales. Not big ones, just like, three games a month? I mean, I already own most big games on Switch anyway. But this would be a good incentive for people who just bought their Switch, but can't afford those big Nintendo first party prices right off the back. They see, "Oh, I can get Breath of the Wild for twenty dollars off If I pay twenty dollars for a year of online membership!? Hot Dog!" Breath of the Wild is already a year and a half old game, Nintendo should have no problem discounting the game and a few others for to get newcomers on board with a Switch online membership.
    And for the love of all things cute and fluffy. Get rid of the smartphone App. Nintendo, when other companies look at you--They're not laughing because of a joke you made, they're laughing because you look like a Grandpa trying to act like his best understanding of a modern day teenager. Fortnite proved you can have in console voice chat, there's no technical limitations preventing you from doing so. Just, make voice chat from your console an OPTION so people can chose to do it or not. I couldn't care less about voice chat, but many people do. It's not impossible, so just get rid of the controversy and do it.
    Anyway, knowing Nintendo will never read this comment. I at least, enjoy sharing my opinion within the Arlo community.

    • @ClintonKE
      @ClintonKE 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Pokemon doesn't even matter IMO. As long as you aren't making something stupid like pure power Regigigas or so I really could care less if someone just wants something that is sort of able to be gotten in game.
      The idea of IVs are stupid anyway.

    • @involuntaryascetic3602
      @involuntaryascetic3602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      actually the reason SD saves aren't a thing is that that's how the wii got hacked, people could import bogus save data that allowed you to crash the system and load unsigned code

    • @davidnotonstinnett
      @davidnotonstinnett 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Likewise, you are not owed a product or service exactly to your desires just because you like a company.
      If you don't like their good or service you can get a good or service from somewhere else, but the company you like isn't obligated to make the thing you want. (They might be dumb not to if it loses them money, but that's their choice)
      Gamer entitlement is gross.

    • @Damini368
      @Damini368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Clint The idea behind IVs is that every Pokémon is unique. It’s like Pokémon DNA.
      I do have a problem with people cloning and spawning shinies and competitive Pokémon. Time is a major factor in competitive, and the players who follow the official rules (Looking at 4.1!) and play legit are at a disadvantage. People who hack acknowledge this.
      Real world athletes spend their off season practicing. Esports players spend thousands of hours practicing in their chosen games. There is no reason to complain about spending a week breeding Pokémon - especially with how every generation it gets easier and faster - to be involved in competitive Pokémon.
      As for shinies, it’s the concept of supply and demand. Everyone wants a shiny. High demand. But generally only one in four thousand encounters is a shiny. Low supply. Thus, shinies are valuable, and can be used as bargaining chips in trades.
      When you can spawn shinies out of nothing at the drop of a hat, you’re flooding the market with fakes. Counterfeits. Thereby reducing the overall value of shinies because demand is reduced.

    • @tristanneal9552
      @tristanneal9552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The easy solution to the Pokémon issue is to require saves before and after online interactions, just like they did in DPPt. That way, trades and battles cannot be undone because they immediately overwrite the cloud save.

  • @2saph2lose28
    @2saph2lose28 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Nintendo: Does a Switch Online.
    Everyone else: You became the very thing you swore to destroy.
    Edit: The Switch Online Service makes me want to buy a Wii U just to play Splatoon again.

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doesn’t make sense personally and there literally aren’t enough people to make any boycott

    • @kass3333
      @kass3333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MsZsc what?

    • @nicholasspring
      @nicholasspring 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The switch online service might make some SMM2 players go back to SMM1 EVEN IF THAT GAME IS DEAD

  • @dachking6657
    @dachking6657 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I legitimately put down Splatoon 2 and turned on the Wii U yet again because it’s free and- get ready for this- it’s not bad at all. I think a lot of other people did the same too because the lobbies are still relatively crowded and I have not had trouble getting in a game in 2019.

  • @akiraokami
    @akiraokami 5 ปีที่แล้ว +397

    The cheat claim Nintendo claims is that by being able to back up your save, you can back up your rank, so if you lose your rank, you can just reload the save, boom, get your rank back.
    You know how other games combat that? Dedicated server and your rank is stored on the server instead of locally...
    Edit: Basically, Nintendo is inventing a problem that doesn't exist, if you just do things right in the first place.

    • @pizza2005
      @pizza2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think they’ll use the money from online to fix this issue personally. This whole Splatoween event was funded with the assumption they’d make the money back from paid online. The money we’re paying for online isn’t necessarily going towards the online itself, but they’ve already done something in their biggest online game they wouldn’t have done otherwise because of the price. People expect Nintendo to use the money how most /other/ companies would use the money, but I know the reason I /like/ Nintendo is that they’re different, so I get really tired by /both/ people acting like Nintendo can do no wrong /and/ people who act like Nintendo is the most idiotic and backwards company in existence.

    • @Nessboy12
      @Nessboy12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well I mean they can be. The other companies do things that they do for a reason. Nintendo tries their hardest to make their own path, which works sometimes. But something as important as online? That's just not to be trifled with. The most optimal way to host it will be the most optimal way. P2P just plain sucks, and nintendo may not even fix that. I don't even know anymore.

    • @Scipio305663
      @Scipio305663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is how people are cheating in Splatoon currently though! They just use a save editor to change literally anything they want to from rank to getting unreleased weapons.
      How do you fix this problem? Dedicated servers.....

    • @Scipio305663
      @Scipio305663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is how people are cheating in Splatoon currently though! They just use a save editor to change literally anything they want to from rank to getting unreleased weapons.
      How do you fix this problem? Dedicated servers.....

    • @pizza2005
      @pizza2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think you know what you're talking about. Mario Tennis Aces uses Peer to Peer for actual gameplay while keeping all the important information on the servers. I honestly think they'll probably rework Splatoon 2 to do something similar now, and then make it so we can use Cloud Saves with the game.
      Also, Splatoon 2 already /does/ keep all your information and stats on servers, otherwise you wouldn't be able to see it in the mobile app, they just treat your local save file as the most accurate source, which isn't necessarily best practice, but if they had a fully locked down system it wouldn't be a problem, and seeing as Cloud Saves weren't originally part of the online service it's not hard to see why the game wouldn't have been developed like that in the first place.
      Plus, there's a lot of stuff you can do while offline that can change stuff once you /do/ finally connect to the internet, which means it would be easier and less likely to cause issues if you just treat the local save as the most trustworthy source, and it would mean some major changes to what's possible while offline in the game if they /do/ change it to allow for cloud saves and the such.

  • @shawnhamelwright8908
    @shawnhamelwright8908 5 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    I agree with all of this. Most TH-camrs on the subject just hop on one side and beat it to death. You gave the pros and cons in a much more honest way, so thank you for that

  • @hwtvi3466
    @hwtvi3466 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Here's my problem. I have no problem with paying for online for games when it's just a side feature. What I have a problem with is paying for online for games that revolve entirely around online. Splatoon's main mode is all about going online. Which means that I'll be paying $20 a year just to play the game I already paid $60 for. Sure, it has a single player mode, but when I've finished it, there will be nothing left to do if I don't fork up the cash.

    • @booksketball
      @booksketball 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      extremely valid especially when fortnite is free to play online but splatoon isn't 😭

    • @nicholasspring
      @nicholasspring 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah and Mario Maker 2? HALF OF THAT GAME'S FEATURES ARE ONLINE!!!! NOW ALL I CAN DO IS STORY MODE OR MAKE LEVELS!

    • @swagmiredoesall
      @swagmiredoesall ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. You shouldn't have to pay to be able to play a game you already paid for. The same reason I hate the new n64 emulator because not only do you have to play for Nintendo online you have to pay for the extension just to play the 2 or 3 games you want to play. I ain't doing that shit. I'd rather buy a wii u just to play n64 games.

  • @CaptainAnonymous
    @CaptainAnonymous 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    It's not "if the customer is willing to pay". The fact that so many games REQUIRE online to play in the first place (Destiny, Titanfall, etc.) and many games are mainly played online (COD, Battlefield, etc.) you're being forced to pay for a service that is well overpriced and under managed. Your soda Carls Jr example would make sense if they sold soda for $4 - $5, but it just isn't comparable. I highly advise you to look into the amount of work it takes to create and "upkeep" online servers. It's literally highway robbery when you compare it to the yearly fee. This is why nobody but Xbox charged at first for online, but because they set the precedent, others followed their footsteps for that easy cash.

  • @cupass6179
    @cupass6179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +578

    As a competitive Splatoon player, I can confirm this online service is pretty crap. Especially during the recent splatfest, couldn't get through a single game without disconnecting. Every splatfest has been like that, but now we're paying for it. C'mon Nintendo

    • @cian2168
      @cian2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Not defending the service but if you're constantly DCing, that's on you, not Nintendo.

    • @Galaxia53
      @Galaxia53 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Egg Benedict
      It's on Nintendo for making people pay for peer to peer servers

    • @cupass6179
      @cupass6179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@cian2168 I have a wired 30 Mbps+ internet connection and this problem is really only prevalent during splatfests. Not on me

    • @ShinyLocke
      @ShinyLocke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      _Galaxia_ then why can i easily get into a game everytime

    • @mr.snaplles5964
      @mr.snaplles5964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      cup ass I don’t DC during a game but in a lobby a lot of the time it says connection error

  • @actuallystuff
    @actuallystuff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    Nintendo: *snaps fingers*
    Half of the people that play online:I don’t feel so good...

    • @noahrevell5085
      @noahrevell5085 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Switch sound effect plays

    • @irocc
      @irocc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shigeru Miyamoto is Thanos confirmed

    • @blazekyn813
      @blazekyn813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it upsets me i just got my switch and i cant play splatoon 2 online... THE ONE GOD DAMN THING YOU DO IN SPLATOON OTHER THEN THE STORY MODE THING!!!

    • @snubcube
      @snubcube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should have gone for the head

    • @ComboMon-
      @ComboMon- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bye bye playerbase

  • @GoodGuyPlayer2
    @GoodGuyPlayer2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +294

    I was a Rank S+ on ALL Splatoon 2 Ranked modes... really proud of managing over 250 hours of gameplay on-par with my actual full time job.
    Switch Online came, and I gave them the finger. Sure IT HURTS not to play my beloved favorite game, but letting Nintendo pull off an "EA" on my ass...? No thanks.

    • @KingKalashnikov
      @KingKalashnikov 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Buddy it's 20 bucks. Yeah it's a bitch to pay for online, but at least you'll be able to play your favourite game for a year. (and you get to play some rad ass nes games so I guess that's a plus)

    • @Anarchic1989
      @Anarchic1989 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well I just joined my friends family plan,so I don't have to pay a dime.

    • @shatteredsentient5321
      @shatteredsentient5321 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      $60 for more features and benefits from PS and MS over $20 from hardly anything from Nintendo.

    • @charizard7666
      @charizard7666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Get splatoon 1, its still got free online.

    • @GoodGuyPlayer2
      @GoodGuyPlayer2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@charizard7666 yup, I went back to Splatoon 1, I was already S there, might as well chase the S+

  • @kappapond
    @kappapond 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Let's start a riot if Sword and Shield don't have cloud save (R.I.P. to any future shiny mons lost in the switch)

    • @BestiaIustitia
      @BestiaIustitia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It doesn’t, I lost them, FFFFFUCK ME

  • @gododoof
    @gododoof 5 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    If I'm paying for online and even ONE GAME isn't using dedicated servers and is instead charging ME to use MY OWN internet then I have a problem.

    • @hundreadrides7730
      @hundreadrides7730 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So if I want to play multiplayer online I have to pay

    • @northern2752
      @northern2752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your using your internet anyway

    • @hellacia8151
      @hellacia8151 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Makes splatoon pretty much unplayable without the subscription, unless you use the lan play trick

    • @hellacia8151
      @hellacia8151 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Nathan Trinh Connects a switch to a custom server to essentially turn the lan play mode of some games into online mode. It's free and works on any banned switches.

    • @sweetoblivion250
      @sweetoblivion250 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fuck nintendo

  • @Bl00dyCh33rry
    @Bl00dyCh33rry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    What pisses me off the most about this (and I'm sure many other fans) is that Nintendo delayed this for a long time in order to work on it more so that they can give fans a quality online subscription service....................................................................... and then this is what they throw at us. A whole year later.

    • @Aimela136
      @Aimela136 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Really makes you question what exactly was being "worked on" this whole time that warranted a whole year's delay. A NES emulator and a cloud save system combined couldn't have possibly taken any more than a month to develop for a company like Nintendo, and nothing has changed about online multiplayer.

    • @FrostyDeagz
      @FrostyDeagz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They seemed to plan it right before the release of Mario party too one of their biggest games... Like they couldn't handle the amount of ppl that r gonna be on it lol

    • @FrostyDeagz
      @FrostyDeagz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think it was just a huge money grab cuz of the large smash community

    • @justinjacoby1228
      @justinjacoby1228 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nintendo is ridiculous, I would have purchased the switch a long time ago if they would give us what we want, they could make the switch an incredible system if they would release much more than they have.

    • @MovieFilmerTheEdgyBoyo
      @MovieFilmerTheEdgyBoyo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Switch is pretty incredible imo though

  • @iimepad4606
    @iimepad4606 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I was so used to just connecting to the internet for free on my 3DS, now if I want to race my friend online in Mario Kart I have to pay just to use the intetnet.

    • @GreatATheOne
      @GreatATheOne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mario kart 7 and smash 4 were the best things I played with friends and I hate that now nintendo is being stingy and is caring more about money rather than the dedicated fans

  • @astrologykat6248
    @astrologykat6248 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i’ve been watching your videos for a while now and i love them so much! i love seeing these subjects being covered and your takes on them. i also love to see your game reviews and in general, all your videos.

  • @precisemotion3308
    @precisemotion3308 5 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    The reason the cloud saves don't lead to cheating on other platforms is because your online rank, items, status / progress are tied to your ACCOUNT, and not your save data. So the issue here does not lie in cloud saves, but nintendo's caveman online still using friend codes and not having a real Nintendo ID system for their online gaming where that ID saves your status rather than your saves

    • @TARINunit9
      @TARINunit9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was about to type that as well, but then I remembered something:
      Splatoon has offline singleplayer modes and I'm 99% sure you can unlock cosmetics in it. A game like Summoners War or Warframe, you literally cannot turn the game on without an internet connection, and that's fine, your stuff is tied to your account. In Splatoon it's possible to have multiplayer items tied to offline singleplayer progression.
      I'm sure there is a solution and Nintendo is just too lazy to think of it, but it's not 100% cut-and-dry like you imply it is. It's only like,,, 80% cut-and-dry

  • @ingibingi2000
    @ingibingi2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    Is it crazy that I want basic functionality features I had on Xbox live in 2005?

    • @SavageRodent
      @SavageRodent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lol Juntaro body pillow. Oh shit this got me good.

    • @wiiownsps3and360
      @wiiownsps3and360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Playing Halo 2 on the og Xbox was less of a headache than playing Splatoon 2 on switch.

    • @LordSpleach
      @LordSpleach 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ingibingi2000 how was Xbox Live in 2005?

    • @Strausburg
      @Strausburg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @LordSpleach I jumped on Xbox Live when it released in 2002 and it was wild. I remember they had these really trippy voice modifications people could use to mask their identity (one made you sound robotic, one made your voice deeper, etc) but they were so obnoxious Microsoft got rid of them. MechAssault and Unreal Championship were the main titles worth playing online before Halo 2 came out (There was a way to jerry-rig Halo CE to play online through a service called Xbox Connect, but it was janky).
      For voice chat, Microsoft came out with an adapter that plugged into the memory slot of the controller and had a headphone jack (something Nintendo should do for the Switch Pro Controller). I bought a 3rd party add on that slotted in so my guest accounts could also do voice chat. The service was great, but at first I had a ton of trouble connecting with one of my friends (had to call customer support in India constantly).
      That first year was really special - All of a sudden I had friends from New York and Germany, and some 50-year old guy from Florida joined my MechAssault forum. Even though they stopped releasing good exclusives, I've been on Xbox Live ever since.

    • @PikaPower131313
      @PikaPower131313 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Strausburg damn. shoutout to og xbox days. some of my most cherished friends were met in Halo 2

  • @thischannelhasnoname5780
    @thischannelhasnoname5780 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I feel it's weird that Luigi's balloon world works without switch online.

    • @CarlosAlberto-nq3iv
      @CarlosAlberto-nq3iv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ThisChannelHasNoName Luigi’s secretly on strike.

    • @kelp185
      @kelp185 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      wait, it does?! I was getting all sad that it had to be used with online, but then I hear this!

    • @aggamerytttv
      @aggamerytttv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ThisChannelHasNoName are you sure?

  • @BogusLettuce
    @BogusLettuce 5 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    Don’t buy it. Revolt against them. This is unacceptable. I refuse to pay for this. I can install retroarch and play all these nes games online for free.

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The only way to make this go away is to boycott it! Let them feel the pain in their wallets

    • @bazzman1680
      @bazzman1680 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Well yes you can do that but you know thats _illegal_

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Abdulrahman Mustafa so charging for online you don’t provide is criminal

    • @bazzman1680
      @bazzman1680 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@firenze6424 well yes its a complete scam but it dosent break any laws.

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Abdulrahman Mustafa well they can find out you illegally downloaded a game without violating privacy laws

  • @Ryukachoo
    @Ryukachoo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    When Arlo is mad
    You know Nintendo goofed it

  • @Yetres
    @Yetres 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The difference between a soda at Carl’s Jr. and online is that if I don’t buy the soda I can still eat the burger I already paid for.

    • @rivalflash4569
      @rivalflash4569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yetres if you don’t buy the online you can still play the game you paid for

    • @aavocadont
      @aavocadont 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Except it isn't the game we paid for. We paid to play online and are now being forced to pay even more later on.

    • @rivalflash4569
      @rivalflash4569 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      On some occasions

    • @aavocadont
      @aavocadont 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, yes. Some. Of course, some games I bought are singeplayer, but that doesn't protect your ass. My point still stands.

    • @ezraoberheim1081
      @ezraoberheim1081 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aavocadont you can still play the game you paid for. Not having internet doesnt suddenly disable your games. You can still play games like fortnite, which would be useless without internet, without paying for the service. Cry harder.

  • @rockythehamster
    @rockythehamster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Homebrew has a way to backup save files locally on SD card for EVERY game. So Nintendo should just do that

    • @marcusream2259
      @marcusream2259 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But you need to hack to get homebrew and Nintendo doesn't like hacks

  • @stormstudioproductions9860
    @stormstudioproductions9860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I had enough. Literally yesterday I thought that I'm gonna buy a Switch instead of an Xbox One X because it's online isn't for free. And now this! Why do companies do that???! We buy their *expensive* consoles and accessories only to receive this?! I had my hopes high but now...

  • @tylerdurden783
    @tylerdurden783 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1191

    Steam doesn't run any of the servers or backend stuff for online multiplayer games they sell, except for games they themselves make. The same is true for Xbox, PS4, and Switch. It is also true that neither Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo give a damn cent towards third party companies hosting fees. (and if the game is P2P, then all that is moot anyways)

    • @xXcloud99Xx
      @xXcloud99Xx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      This person... This person gets it...

    • @delta3244
      @delta3244 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Interesting point here is that Nintendo develops a fair amount of online games the service is required for, especially (at least as far as I'm aware) compared to the PS4/Xbox, so if Nintendo happens to decide improving internet quality (adding servers to Splatoon, improving netcode for many other games) is a good idea, we may end up effectively paying less for more compared to Xbox/PS4.
      Just in case it isn't clear, I say "effectively" because they could've decided to do that without having paid online, but it's still a part of the online service so I'm counting it as what we pay for.

    • @AdvancedSlayer8
      @AdvancedSlayer8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      I know. Technically, Sony and Microsoft are just taking money away from you. They dont even host servers for fuck all. It is sad that they charge you $60 a year just to fucking play online. they don't even host any god damn servers. I switched to PC a few years ago and loved it. And I bought a switch. Both 10/10 purchases.

    • @DarkKnightofHeaven
      @DarkKnightofHeaven 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      This makes more work for Nintendo in comparison to Sony or Microsoft. Microsoft only has Halo and Forza. Sony doesn't produce any of the games they own themselves, they just buy exclusive rights or buy out the studios that make the games. Nintendo makes a vast majority of its games so it has to support most of the servers itself. So picking and choosing makes sense for Nintendo, not choosing arms makes sense. Not choosing Splatoon makes zero sense since its the largest online game.

    • @Bulkyninja
      @Bulkyninja 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      The fact console players defend it shows a lack of understanding of games and servers. The fact you would let sony, Microsoft, and NINTENDO gate keep your internet and u give them money for it lmao

  • @Scrooge042
    @Scrooge042 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Agreed. Switch Online is a sham and even worse, a huge missed oppertunity. I'd happily pay the 20 euros for a decent online service for the switch. But paying that money for an online system that would've been considered barebones 10 years ago, a shitty p2p online gaming infrastructure that is iffy at best and a couple of NES games as a pittance to replace the Virtual Console?
    No.
    20 euro's isn't a lot of money on a yearly basis but that's a no on principle. I just hope more people do the same, giving Nintendo a signal that they should be doing better than this.

    • @casuallycompliant3045
      @casuallycompliant3045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You cant offer sandwiches to a company for internet

    • @lukedetering4490
      @lukedetering4490 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The best way to stop something like this is to boycott. Business 101 make money

    • @carl_consumer.of.reality
      @carl_consumer.of.reality 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scrooge042 Yeah honestly I won’t be getting online either.

    • @stevenn1940
      @stevenn1940 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      "barebones 10 years ago" is very strong wording... since Xbox Live was $50, and offered nothing but online play. No deals, no free games, nada.

    • @Scrooge042
      @Scrooge042 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Xbox has had support for voice chatting through their console since 2002, and you could actually send messages to your friends through their system. Basic features that still seem to elude Nintendo. Steam had the same features upon launch in 2004. In 2008, Sony updated the Playstation 3 with trophies. All features Nintendo have refused to incorporate into their online to this day. Barebones 10 years ago is putting it mildly.
      Not defending the precedent Microsoft has set with holding their online play hostage for such a hefty price (in fact I dislike the consequences it has had), but Nintendo doesn't get a pass from me launching a service like this in 2018. Regardless of the price.

  • @theperson4684
    @theperson4684 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    My glob! This makes the Wii U’s virtual console look like a god!

    • @charizard7666
      @charizard7666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I never thought i'd see the day...

    • @kumuthajeyakanthan5598
      @kumuthajeyakanthan5598 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I dont get why everyone thinks wii u is bullshit

    • @TheAnonEye
      @TheAnonEye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      BTS KPOP ARMY it was, but now it isn’t lol

    • @CarlosAlberto-nq3iv
      @CarlosAlberto-nq3iv 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      HAHAHA! Have fun with your laggy iPads.

    • @peterf9006
      @peterf9006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@CarlosAlberto-nq3iv I will, playing Star Fox 64 and Super Metroid. Let me know when that's on Switch kthxbye

  • @justjoeblow420
    @justjoeblow420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One thing I noticed as some one that got Mario Kart 7 late was that since Switch online went to a pay model that I went from hardly being able to find people to play with online some days to almost instantly being able to get into races online. I think a lot of people are simply not buying into the Switch online, I know when I do get a Switch I'll probably hold off on getting an online subscription simply because it doesn't offer enough for me when I might play Mario Kart 8 online and that would be about it. I would have to agree this is one of Nintendo's most anti consumer moves in years, all though if you ask me the refusal of any form/replacement for the Virtual Console form previous consoles ranks pretty up there as well. This and the what has been a some what weak line up of first party titles has been a large part of what has had me hold of on getting a Switch so far. Which is kind of sad as Nintendo is literally the on console's I've bought for several years now as some one that for most of his life has been mostly a PC guy mainly.

    • @mauken-dyn6685
      @mauken-dyn6685 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's actually pretty interesting. Wish I had Mario Kart 7. :/

  • @notbones1664
    @notbones1664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    This is also really gona kill games like Mario Tennis Aces and ARMS with them being 60 dollar games. At least Splatoon 2 has a meaty enough single player to sink our teeth into along with some tasty DLC on the side, but ARMS and Mario Tennis have really shallow single player campaigns so multiplayer is their main focus. As a result Nintendo made it so those games actually cost 80 dollars for the full experience.

    • @Solibrae
      @Solibrae 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Quite possible. On a side note, it can also turn off people buying those games in the first place. If the online play was always going to be free on the Switch, I probably would have bought Splatoon 2 and ARMS when they were released, earning Nintendo £120 from me. Instead, I didn't want to risk buying either, just in case the online was the only thing that I found fun about them, earning NIntendo £0 from me.

    • @cosmicredpanda2420
      @cosmicredpanda2420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Well, don’t forgot the 20 dollar fee is annual. So by your third year you would have had to pay twice as much as the game itself, excluding dlc.

    • @Thornskade
      @Thornskade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And 100 for two years, and 120 for three years,...

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cosmicredpanda2420 True, but conversely you don't have to pay for the online separately for every game.

    • @ethan-fel
      @ethan-fel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you could also go to reddit find a family and pay $4 per years.

  • @DarthRaptor22
    @DarthRaptor22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    When they initially announced the service, and said there would be a back catalog of games on the service, I was ready to pay only $20/yr for it. As time went on, it never changed from just NES games. I was hoping to get some SNES games or GB or N64, but no, just a handful of NES games. I dont really play online anyway, so now I have absolutely zero reason to pay for it.

    • @joeygreathouse3029
      @joeygreathouse3029 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I laughed out loud at NES games...would have been impressive for free on DS.
      N64 games would have been impressive for free on 3DS...
      But Switch? We should be wondering what GameCube and Wii games we will be getting included with our sub.

    • @Leostransformers
      @Leostransformers 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      there is gonna be SNES there was a datamine that showed a icon for a controller that looked Very similer to SNES

    • @hoodedman6579
      @hoodedman6579 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't think they could have done that part in a more disappointing way. "Here's 20 NES games, but you get 3 more a month; nothing else though."... What a joke.

    • @Bellevolence_
      @Bellevolence_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @redwidow1358
      @redwidow1358 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To be fair, the 3DS can't handle emulating the Nintendo 64. So N64 games for free would have been impressive
      on the Wii U. And we're not getting GameCube or Wii games on the Switch unless they're straight ports.

  • @robocopbot9538
    @robocopbot9538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    1:35 this may be true for nintendo, but for sony and microsoft they're just taking the money for servers that third parties pay for, the servers cost these companies absolutely nothing unless its a first party game.

  • @CinderPeltz
    @CinderPeltz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aight I love how your videos are structured I gotta sub, also great choice of music.
    Gotta agree though, especially for folks who only casually play Nintendo games nowadays, the subscription feels like tedium more than anything.

  • @maxwasson2000
    @maxwasson2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    For a hypothetical Virtual Console service, Nintendo should make this the DEFINITIVE Nintendo console that can play NES, Game Boy, SNES, N64, Game Boy Color, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U games.

    • @cyanchaos4490
      @cyanchaos4490 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thats kinda why virtual console existed. So olders games could be played on the newer system

    • @TheGuyWhoIsSitting
      @TheGuyWhoIsSitting 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wii U would be a stretch on the Switch. I imagine they'd have to port the games to get that functionality, I don't think there's enough juice to emulate a Wii U on the Switch.

    • @flowerbruh
      @flowerbruh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ok, 3DS and Wii U games are a bit extreme here. 3DS is still selling, and Wii U was literally the previous console. Maybe up until the Gamecube games. Or even Wii, but that's stretching it a bit.

    • @callum3871
      @callum3871 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      VerteX ZM but then again, wii games were on the wii u virtual console if I’m not misinformed

    • @bigstar66
      @bigstar66 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheGuyWhoIsSitting isnt the switch more powerful? why couldn't it play wii u games docked?

  • @Tuber00C
    @Tuber00C 5 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    I keep hearing that "maybe they're working on improving the service right now!" or "they will make it better eventually" but you'd think that they'd have done that with the almost 2 years the Swtich has been out. And during that time, they gave that same service for free... Otherwise why would it be free for this long if they weren't "getting it ready" to use? Did it really take that long to just add the NES Online and cloud save features? I really hope those arguments are right and that they make it better with time. But my point is that the service should've been "ready" with all its features (at least the basic ones, such as dedicated servers) for its release date.
    That's my opinion. Nice video! :D

    • @seacliff217
      @seacliff217 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      For a second I read at the end "I hope these [defensive] arguments get better over time" like it was a comeback. I must be tired.
      But yeah. It really doesn't they actually did anything over the 1-year delay to improve the service. It's confusing.

    • @dias5310
      @dias5310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But dedicated server is not basic, sony and microsoft don't have one (and they don't need to, because the lack of first party online games)

    • @stevenn1940
      @stevenn1940 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dai Nu, exactly. Calling dedicated servers a basic function (which could potentially be as complex as recoding massive portions of their games, in addition to the licensing, installation, building actual structures to HOUSE the servers in) is like saying turning a 2 lane highway into a 6 lane highway with an under and overpass is easy.
      And yeah, I distinctly remember matches of halo 4 from the xbox 360 days being at least partially peer to peer. I remember the host leaving, and it rotating to find another one. (which is something nintendo DOES need to do better, coding in what to do when the host leaves/disconnects)

    • @Tuber00C
      @Tuber00C 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not saying that it's easy... That's why I said they had almost two years to make something happen, at least for the games that would really benefit from it such as Splatoon 2 and HOPEFULLY Smash Ultimate when it comes out.
      And then again, I did say basic features, plural... Not exclusively dedicated servers. There's the save data backup thing. They could've made it so you can transfer it to an SD card or USB. But no, they didn't... They took away something that used to be there and even for FREE.
      It's easy to feel like now we have to pay for NOTHING to be better, like Arlo said.

  • @theivoryguy2476
    @theivoryguy2476 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Good job Arly. You talked about Nintendo Switch Online without completely tearing it apart.
    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @isabellecruz7021
    @isabellecruz7021 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol first video I’ve seen of this channel and this is great. Love the intro 😂

  • @TheArloFanCommunity
    @TheArloFanCommunity 5 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    2016 Arlo is back baby!

    • @Nelsathis
      @Nelsathis 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is 2016 Arlo? I didnt know him back then.

    • @AkumaMasurao
      @AkumaMasurao 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was a little bluer.

    • @jonathanherring2113
      @jonathanherring2113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What!!! I thought he died twice and got cloned on three seperate occasions. What will this do to the legend of Arlo timeline???

    • @skunkooo
      @skunkooo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nelsathis 2016 ninteno

    • @jaffacake3578
      @jaffacake3578 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In 2016 he became popular for criticising Nintendo on games like Colour Splash. His videos on Colour Splash, in particular, gained a lot of attention and he was one of the most popular fans to criticise the game.

  • @boink666
    @boink666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1282

    Steam does what NintenDONT.

    • @Mechaxk
      @Mechaxk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Nintendo what NintenSHOULDN'T.

    • @trithos7308
      @trithos7308 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      NintenDONT please.

    • @tatarsauce6314
      @tatarsauce6314 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      For free

    • @starforce6751
      @starforce6751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jajaja😂True...sad but true

    • @nsxzlaz8569
      @nsxzlaz8569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

  • @dieselsparkledoggo3277
    @dieselsparkledoggo3277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You have to buy that for splatoon now. I have it, and it is pretty cheap, but I agree that that stuff should be free.

  • @danielhorsman7235
    @danielhorsman7235 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I got nintendo online and i have had one smash game that was laggy and that was just because it was 4 player smash. Since then, smash, splatoon2 and MK8 deluxe have all worked perfectly online.

  • @deathbunny1718
    @deathbunny1718 5 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    I need Iwata to get out of his grave become buff , and walk into the Nintendo headquarters with the fist of the north star theme playing. so I'm just gonna write what I'm envisioning .
    *Iwata was reborn the moment Nintendo online came to be , he was filled with rage and strengthened by it .* he walked into the Nintendo headquarters in japan and faced off with the current president Shuntaro Furukawa.
    Iwata pointed at him and said , " what have you done this isn't a business Nintendo's a family that strives for quality and being friendly to the consumer ."
    Shuntaro sitting in his business chair with his feet up on his desk said , " HA , your an idiot Iwata , with this i can make more money then you could ever imagine."
    Iwata charges at Shutaro and slams his face onto the table repeatedly while saying , " you don't even play games your not a developer , why were you placed in this industry , why did they make you a successor, what games have you even played."
    Shuntaro resist being slammed down , shoved Iwata off, and unbutton his suit while saying ," first of all i played Pac-man , and second the way you were leading this company was driving it to the ground , testing products so they wouldn't break when dropped ,free online , it was all a risk that we shouldn't have taken."
    Shuntaro gripped Iwata's arm and did a judo style over shoulder throw sending Iwata out of the window. Iwata's grip remained fixed to the exposed flooring , and he was stuck dangling off the edge.
    Iwata still holding on said , "We do not run from risk. We run to it. We were taking the risk to move beyond the boundaries of the game industry to reach new players and current players. but all you are doing is alienating the work of your predecessors, your fan base and ruining our image for money." Iwata pulled himself up and nailed Shuntaro with a Knee of justice .
    Iwata then loosened his tie and said ," Look Shuntaro , while I might not have understood the best business practices , it was through quality ,faith,and helping our supporters that this company could carry on but now with your greed , I'm not sure what i can do to fix it , but what i know is ... I WILL STOP YOU...... fa--lcon ... PUNCH."
    ten out of ten shit post I'm gonna go watch some TV now

    • @m4ckeeenzi3
      @m4ckeeenzi3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow! Good post!

    • @factsandstuff2832
      @factsandstuff2832 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This is my nintendo lore canon now

    • @zanyfeatherbrain7854
      @zanyfeatherbrain7854 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sniff... It's beautiful

    • @ElComanche
      @ElComanche 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love it! Haha!

    • @driptopia
      @driptopia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Iwata was a legend. even with the Wii U failure he didn't fire people and cut his salary

  • @kami4242
    @kami4242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    The best way to look at Switch Online is comparing what you had available to you six months ago (for free) with what the $20 nets you now.
    Switch Online grants you:
    - online multiplayer (something that was free before)
    - the renting of NES games (which many people already own on Wii/3DS/Wii U/etc and/or have played countless times before- Sony and Microsoft on the other hand give you games that aren't decades old, some of which you probably haven't played)
    - the privilege of purchasing exclusive accessories (is this a joke?)
    - cloud saves (which aren't as good as backing up your own data offline and many of the games you'd want backed up, like Pokemon and most likely Smash, don't allow it)
    Honestly, when custom firmware and piracy solve a lot of your consumers' issues it should be obvious that you made a terrible service.

    • @_plg
      @_plg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Get this: When you want to backup your save locally, NINTENDO ACTUALLY BANS YOUR SWITCH.

    • @offradar31
      @offradar31 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Obsidian Plague wtf fr?!

    • @CookeyEffects
      @CookeyEffects 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@offradar31 yeah but not because you want to but more because you hacked your console in order to do so. But that's the next problem: They don't allow cloud saves for splatoon 2 because of "cheating" but if a cheater really wants to do so, they have the ability to regardless backup their save because the switch is already hacked...
      What I would expect them to do is to put all multiplayer-related save part on the servers only (which they btw actually have, but the servers are ONLY used for matchmaking, after you've found all 7 other players, it basically just leaves you and the other Players alone)

    • @RunawayWindmill
      @RunawayWindmill 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean just compare it to the Wii U's service offering....like what

  • @RK-zc6gj
    @RK-zc6gj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Paid online play is anti consumer. End of discussion.

  • @statyks
    @statyks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Servers are run by the studio (blizzard,EA,ETc). The money for Xbox live and PS plus just goes to Microsoft and Sony, and doesn’t go towards server management AT ALL!

  • @Joe-nz5ql
    @Joe-nz5ql 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    With Sony, you can backup saves to a usb without paying for online. And it saves your saves even if you don’t pay for online, it’s just that you have to buy ps+ to activate it. What’s sad is that the switch is a portable system which makes it the easiest console to break but yet their cloud save policy is the most strict

    • @Oldsul
      @Oldsul 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup, Xbox/Microsoft gives you cloud saves for free, the way the Lord intended.

  • @tristanneal9552
    @tristanneal9552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    I’m protesting purchasing this service until they fix it or at least take some form of public action about it. I’d rather go without online than have my arm twisted into paying for a crappy service because “it’s only $20!”.

    • @sfirro
      @sfirro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yep. Me and my 3 friends as well.

    • @KatanaRikku
      @KatanaRikku 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same. I backed up my data with the trial that's all I needed

    • @cosmicredpanda2420
      @cosmicredpanda2420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unfortunately, so many people are giving in that Nintendo is already profiting off this service a lot. So the only thing I’m betting on is if they want more people to buy it is to make it less of a scam, but then they would have to put actual effort into it.

    • @davidnotonstinnett
      @davidnotonstinnett 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool...but refusing to purchase a product because it isn't of good enough quality isn't a form of protest. It's called being an informed consumer.
      Framing it as 'protest' just smacks of entitlement. Nintendo doesn't owe you anything. You don't owe Nintendo anything. They haven't wronged you or anyone in any way. A 'protest' implies Nintendo has done a social or personal wrong that must be rectified if they are to be a part of society and do business (you know, like segregation boycotts in the 1960's)

    • @tristanneal9552
      @tristanneal9552 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      David Stinnett I am protesting this shitty service, and the bad business practice of expecting your customers to bend over and take whatever you give them out of brand loyalty. What you seem to be talking about is a boycott, and I never claimed to be engaging in that type of protest.
      But yes, you could call it “voting with your wallet” if you’d rather. Either way, I’m refusing to purchase in an attempt to send a message about their business practices. Sounds like a protest to me.

  • @Blue-tw9bv
    @Blue-tw9bv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have a problem with nintendo switch online because I cant complete the pokedex in Let's Go without trading or transferring pokemon from GO. P.S. None of my friends have the game so I have to rely on online trading for machamp, golem, etc.

  • @Electric0eye
    @Electric0eye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The argument that online shouldn't be free isn't an argument I agree with, but it's an argument I can understand. It comes from a reasonable place for sure.
    But Nintendo's online is legitimately extortion.

  • @DonatoXlll
    @DonatoXlll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +371

    Said it before, I'll say it agian. Vote with your wallet people. Nintendo is offering you a completely hallow online subscription with broken features and peer-to-peer connections. Dont pay for the service and avoid games that require it for online play. Once the game devs put pressure on them, they will at the very least have to improve the quality of the service.

    • @user-bm9gw2mg3g
      @user-bm9gw2mg3g 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This needs to be on top

    • @22neptun
      @22neptun 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I hope this backfires and hurts the sales for Splatoon 2 and Arms. That would get Nintendo to listen.

    • @matthewkeys7754
      @matthewkeys7754 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      it's not that simple. i'm not gonna completely boycott smash, which i basically bought my switch for, just because it costs 20 dollars a month.

    • @Nessboy12
      @Nessboy12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Just don't buy online lol. Smash is still playable without it.

    • @comicsans1689
      @comicsans1689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Matthew Keys If you bought a console for just one game, you made a really poor purchase. Learn some patience, and ensure that the system you will buy will for sure have multiple games you want to play.

  • @gungaloscrungalo8925
    @gungaloscrungalo8925 5 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    A moment of silence for Splatoon 2.

    • @hoehoehoe7982
      @hoehoehoe7982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      .................................................................................................................
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      ..
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    • @justrightgaming3333
      @justrightgaming3333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Splatoon 2 is the only online game I play on switch; and it got the short end of the stick in almost every way from the online service

    • @TheAlibabatree
      @TheAlibabatree 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@justrightgaming3333 And what's most infuriating (for me) is that Splatoon is easily Nintendo's most hardcore competive online game. It requires actual skill. This is the one game that needs servers and voice chat.

    • @tristanneal9552
      @tristanneal9552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TheAlibabatree And cloud saves!

    • @spritelady4669
      @spritelady4669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *plays taps on inkling musical instruments*

  • @briochebananabread
    @briochebananabread 5 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    I KNOW
    every one stop paying for nintendo online and for a month or 2 (yes i know its long) and nintendo will stop making nintendo online a thing!!!
    it may suck but its all worth the wait...
    like if you agree ...

    • @CodeOni
      @CodeOni 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      raybriel mundo unfortunately it is a trend that is going to continue in the entertainment industry unless the government stops it like loot boxes. With smash coming out with their ranking online system, it’s pretty close to impossible if you are a competitive players including games like splatoon 2 and Dragonball fighters. They probably will try to improve the service but not anytime soon from what we see

    • @thomasshepard7891
      @thomasshepard7891 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You two are some truly special children

    • @britneysouders4661
      @britneysouders4661 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a brand new Nintendo Switch console for a very low price. Go here to get it: HootSwitch.xyz

    • @AdolisYT
      @AdolisYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      raybriel mundo Actually no they won’t lol. They can care less whether people actually play on Nintendo Online. They still get money from all the games purchased every single day. $20 for online from people doesn’t matter to them. They still make insane amounts of money and there will always be people on the online service

    • @trithos7308
      @trithos7308 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@AdolisYT you clearly don't know just how much money nintendo made with NSO. It is not just a drop in the bucket. The made billions on release.

  • @patrickivthrowaway7266
    @patrickivthrowaway7266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You have you own convention?
    Hold up
    Wait a minute

  • @SnowyNowak
    @SnowyNowak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    I know a few people who defend Switch Online because it's "just $20"
    A bad deal is a bad deal, even for $20.

    • @RobinotX
      @RobinotX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That said a bad deal is also based person to person. Cause what you see as a bad deal another could see it as a bargain.

    • @AncelDeLambert
      @AncelDeLambert 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      $20 for a brick in a box is still being scammed for $20, no matter how nice the box, brick, or salesman's smile is.

    • @BenRK90
      @BenRK90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AncelDeLambert I mean, if it's a gold brick, it's not a scam. And hey, maybe the box is made with fine materials and has silver thread and stuff. If I paid $20 for that, I'd be very happy with it. Not talking about Nintendo here, just saying a gold brick in a silver box is worth more then $20.

    • @WaddleDee105
      @WaddleDee105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      "Hey, I got kicked in the nuts!"
      "Quit whining. It didn't even cost you anything!"

    • @josetato
      @josetato 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@BenRK90 damn. I wish i had standards this low. Life would certainly be more enjoyable

  • @mewnmew2993
    @mewnmew2993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +399

    ⚠️ warning this video has opinions ⚠️

  • @knate44
    @knate44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Peer to peer should arguably be available as a free option, since having a peer to peer option is super useful and cheap way to preserve some functionality of online play once the company can no longer support dedicated servers. But, for massive experiences like splatoon 2, dedicated servers are a must.

  • @cannedbread2242
    @cannedbread2242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I miss iwata :(
    Nintendo was so great back then...

  • @Unf0rget
    @Unf0rget 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Yeah, I can say this service doesnt give me diddly.
    The price tag seems so attractive but then I asked 'what do I get for paying?' A better time online? More communication options? Wouldn't be hard to do. Or even a better, more reliable connection?
    Nope. They offer cloud saves that dont help the games I like. Namely splatoon 2. And nes games. Nes. Games. What? Sony and microsoft now somehow trump nintendo online in value because I will at least get relevant features.
    Just, how the heck after so many years does nintendo not have more roms to offer for emulation on their platform? $20 a year for access to everything gamecube and before would be pretty cool. A giant undertaking sure but that would get more value out of that old stock than piecemeal distribution of two to three remakes.
    The fact they haven't done something to that extent just hits me with the feeling nintendo is doing the bare minimum to appease consumers about an additional online fee, for their notoriously awful online that is somehow even worse than wii's online.

    • @corrackisdead
      @corrackisdead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SantaFire ` don’t forget taking down Emu paradise and other rom sites, now we will never be able to play Game cube games that will never get a port or rereleased again, so it seems that game conservation should still be done based on those measures since Nintendo threw out most of the roms for space a while ago.

    • @leajenkins7957
      @leajenkins7957 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dataminers and homebrewers proved a long time ago that it would be virtually zero effort on nintendo's part to put every nes, snes, and n64 game they have the rights to on either the virtual console or switch online. I can see both sides of the argument for and against a streaming service version of the VC, but the fact of the matter is either way there is no excuse.

  • @DiamondIceNS
    @DiamondIceNS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Regarding how Splatoon 2 seems to have been shafted by NSO, my theory is that it's all trickle-down from poor initial game design decisions.
    The real crux of the problem with Splatoon 2 in particular is that everything in the game is clientside. There is no substantial server verification happening anywhere in the pipeline. All of your online stats and your gear are clientside, and from what I understand, as long as your Switch thinks it's valid, any other Switch in your online game will pass it off as valid, since it's all P2P. It's why hackers were able to play as Octolings early, or force people onto forbidden maps in online mode, or pull of crazy stunts like instantly turfing the entire stage with ink at the start of a Turf War. Never trusting the client is always Network Security 101. It was a flawed design from the beginning, and now ALL of Splatoon 2's netcode is structured around this. It would be wholly infeasible to rewrite it to a serverside architecture.
    Now, I don't know if the heart of this problem being at such odds with an online service stem from Splatoon 2's development predating the NSO design spec (bad, but understandable), or if the NSO spec was designed specifically to cater to this architecture (VERY bad), but if it's the former, then there was nothing NSO would have been able to do. Splat 2 *will not* ever support dedicated servers, because it was never designed to do so. That's just not something you roll out in an update, that's something you write a whole new sequel for. So I believe it could be the case that Splat 2 was sadly grandfathered out of the system.
    And regarding cloud saves, my bet is that Nintendo saw just how gapingly wide open Splat 2 has been blown that they explicitly denied it from the online save functionality because they don't want it to become an attack vector into their new service. I bet Splat 2 would support NSO cloud saves just fine, it's just quarantined out because it's so egregiously infected. The talk about wanting to curb hacking is likely a corporate coverup.
    That all said, I don't know for sure why LGPE is also out of the cloud save party. My guess? It was developed by GameFreak and Niantic, two companies that are quite excellent at a number of things they do, but are... admittedly lacking in other departments. Pokemon games have had a track record of dropping the ball with their networking services, and Niantic has been agonizingly dragging Pokemon Go through development hell since its release, with its poor stepbrother Ingress licking at the dirt in PoGo's boot treads for nourishment. Maybe they just weren't up to the task of implementing the feature? I really don't want that to be the reason... if some random Joe Indy can do it, you'd think AAA devs could... I guess I really don't know for sure.

    • @wamblo8966
      @wamblo8966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Diamond Ice NS
      I think you hit it right on the head. Nintendo’s corporate culture of lifelong service and apprenticeship has prevented them from hiring outside experts in online play, leading to a bunch of mistakes with their net code that other companies already dealt with over a decade ago. I really think that unless Nintendo can become more flexible and hire outside help, these things won’t be fixed until their next console.

    • @Corrderio
      @Corrderio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think for Pokemon they're more afraid of people duping rare pokemon more than anything since it seems like it could be extremely easy to explot.
      As for Splatton 2, yeah that's a mess I doubt they'll fix.

  • @crybaby3150
    @crybaby3150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I just played smash online and its SUPER laggy :(

    • @shadowboy2818
      @shadowboy2818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      same. brawl was never like this. that's just sad. I was pretty pissed up to the point where I angrily button mashed on my joy-cons. nintendo may have a solution for broadband but what about wireless?!? >:(

  • @Azorgrath
    @Azorgrath 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you have to get a membership on warframe or the type of games like fortnite for cloud save?

  • @akin2093
    @akin2093 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    People already have to pay for internet and the $300 console, plus the games. In the ads there are happy families playing the switch....bet their smiles will turn upside down when they see that they have to pay $35 freaking bucks to play online. Edit: thanks for the likes and replies!

    • @ezraoberheim1081
      @ezraoberheim1081 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ohhhh noooooooooo $3 a month :( weeeeeh

    • @hatti...
      @hatti... 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's only 20 bucks.

    • @jakeh8446
      @jakeh8446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Kuro Wanwan It might be cheap but that doesn't mean it's worth it.

    • @samuelsanchez6082
      @samuelsanchez6082 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't play online then

    • @ane11m
      @ane11m 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Don’t forget the best games are over £50 with dlc

  • @poppypopplio
    @poppypopplio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Nintendo Switch Online just killed Splatoons 2. I just tried to play an online match and it wouldn't let me play just because I don't have a membership. Nintendo Switch Online just killed the most popular mode in Splatoon 2.

    • @minecattheidiot609
      @minecattheidiot609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ikr

    • @oof9165
      @oof9165 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Splatoon*

    • @girou3834
      @girou3834 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@oof9165 No dude he clearly means he killed the 2 which *probably* means that Splatoon is better
      This is just a joke that might be true :/

    • @RitaThePally
      @RitaThePally 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jusy get a membership it’s 20 bucks rofl

    • @dyrics7089
      @dyrics7089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      +RitaThePally You're part of the problem.

  • @danielamartinez-rivera7251
    @danielamartinez-rivera7251 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well said my dude, but yeah. I totally wasnt on board for paying to play, plus i would only be paying $20 a year only to be able to play one game since the only multiplayer switch game i own is splatoon. Sucks that this service basically killed the experience of splatoon 2 for me, but at least i have single player campaign and octo-expansion :/

  • @lordbarco8337
    @lordbarco8337 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Arlo, man… from what game is the music that plays at 3:00?

  • @thesafehouse2863
    @thesafehouse2863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    The reason we shouldn't pay for online, is because servers are handled by developers. Not the console creators.

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      True but won’t stop nintendrones from defending it

    • @crodojoe
      @crodojoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      im still gonna pay for it either way not paying for it will do nothing at all

    • @lilcloutvevo
      @lilcloutvevo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      nintendo makes splatoon, smash, mario kart, etc. The 3rd party games have free online. (i hate the online, though.)

    • @crodojoe
      @crodojoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@lilcloutvevo can you explain why there are so many Jc dentons everywhere

    • @crodojoe
      @crodojoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lilcloutvevo sorry but I have been seeing that pic alot

  • @theresastarmanwaitinginthe5149
    @theresastarmanwaitinginthe5149 5 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    I'm not to going to lie to you chief, this Switch Online ain't it.

    • @cian2168
      @cian2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tru dat, dawg.

    • @quandaledingle968
      @quandaledingle968 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      There's a starman waiting in the sky Speedwagon-sama, you’re always right.

    • @MapleMilk
      @MapleMilk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Indeed chief
      Indeed

    • @Foxy02016
      @Foxy02016 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a starman waiting in the sky
      Thankfully some games haven’t been effected ... Padlins And Fortnite are free to download and free to go online

  • @maxolina
    @maxolina 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the name of the song that starts at 1:08 ??? It reminds me of metroid or paper mario or something similar but I don't know why...

  • @snoozyloco609
    @snoozyloco609 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait ive not played splatoon in a ling time.... does that mean if i put it on my switch now it wont work be ause i havnt oayed for online???

  • @jackmoffat7417
    @jackmoffat7417 5 ปีที่แล้ว +332

    To all those saying that it doesn't matter because Sony and Microsoft have $60 services: If someone is selling a hot dog for 10 dollars, and someone else was selling a piece of crap shaped like a hot dog for 10 cents, I'd just go hungry.

    • @_MythicalWolf
      @_MythicalWolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yea, I'm not going to pay for this. To pay for it is to tell Nintendo that this shit is ok. I dont play online games. I grew up an only child so I'm honestly fine with just playing with computer players even for mario kart, smash bros and mario party which are all heralded as a very multi player type titles. But my main concern is pokemon. A main title is supposed to come out next year. I don't battle others or do serious trading but I do partake in wondertrading now and then and I more importantly will trade with a specific friend to get items across or pokedex entries or whatnot. Even that isn't too often though. But are you really saying I have to pay $20 a year for that? I don't care if its cheap, that's ridiculous. There is nothing to make that worth while for me. For people who play competitively the service is crap and for people like me who have used online services less than a handful of times ever, and have never used online for the switch even when it was free, having to pay so much for pretty much a handful of uses in a single game is ridiculous as well.

    • @BasedBrah10
      @BasedBrah10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jack Moffat id pay for the hot dog

    • @captainjack9341
      @captainjack9341 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with most of that. I have a few things I disagree with though

    • @Nessboy12
      @Nessboy12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was really looking forward to playing smash ultimate online and going competitive with it. Now it seems pretty much impossible for me since this service is shit. Oh god the smash 4 online days are coming back. I have the money, and I got 20 bucks specifically for this, but I'm not buying anything right now.

    • @pokemonchase9876
      @pokemonchase9876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you kept the original price it would be more accurate lol.

  • @mikodi5147
    @mikodi5147 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    nintendo can deal with online being free, just look at the past year...
    that shows that free online is not a problem at all and its just the company thinking of a way to squeeze more money out of the consumers

    • @damir_van_kalaz
      @damir_van_kalaz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Of course they can. Peer to peer servers cost next to nothing to run. It's why indie games and small companies utilize them. It's dedicated servers that cost money to keep up, which somewhat justifies paying money, but we're not getting those. We're just paying $20 every single year to play the games we already paid for on the console we already paid for with the internet connection we already paid for.

    • @ToaKoran
      @ToaKoran 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      By this point with how little you get in exchange, and you literally pay for nothing, it's only fitting description is the "Nintendo tax."

    • @SleepyStreak
      @SleepyStreak 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Damir Kalaz We are getting dedicated servers. For Smash, and Mario Kart. You know, the games that are popular. Not Splatoon. Get over it whiney bitch.

    • @killalod
      @killalod 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You mean, one game that doesn't necessarily need it and one that isn't even out yet? I don't know what you count as popular but Splatoon was in fact among some of the most popular and best sellers. *And is a shooter. Which could really use the servers instead.*

    • @damir_van_kalaz
      @damir_van_kalaz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Senderoth Trollinski
      No, we're not. Read the text during that part of the video. I understand if reading is difficult for you at the age I assume you to be based on this reply, but it's clearly stated that this was from awhile ago, and may have even just been Reggie talking hypothetically. It has not be stated one way or the other that these two games or any others will be getting dedicated servers.
      Sorry, is "hypothetically" too big of a word for you? Here, let me provide you with the definition just in case you don't know the URL to google:
      "by imagining a possibility rather than reality; as a hypothesis."
      And just in case "Imagining", "possibility", and "hypothesis" are also too big for you:
      Imagining:
      "form a mental image or concept of."
      Possibility:
      "a thing that may happen or be the case."
      Hypothesis:
      "a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation."
      And just in case that last one throws you for a loop:
      Supposition:
      "an uncertain belief."
      Please actually pay attention and learn the facts before you decide to call someone a "whiny bitch". By the way, "whiny" doesn't have an e. Just pointing that out, because if you're going to insult someone, you should also at least spell it right, otherwise you're basically just insulting yourself.
      Furthermore, you're suggesting that there is nothing to complain about in the scenario where MK8D gets dedicated servers prioritized over Splatoon 2. Splatoon 2 is more heavily impacted by the lack of dedicated servers than MK8D is, so if MK8D got dedicated servers and Splatoon 2 stayed as is, that would almost be *more* infuriating. Ideally, *all* first party multiplayer Nintendo games would offer dedicated servers, but if it has to only be a few, then it should be games that rely on connection quality the most.

  • @charlottebligh649
    @charlottebligh649 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was that game grumps footage for breath of the wild at 13:00 ish? From the first episode of botw where they're going to the shrine?

  • @gormauslander
    @gormauslander 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Want to just download a single stage in ultimate? $20.

    • @theceptorperson9570
      @theceptorperson9570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is something that made me angry. This and not being able to play Mario Maker 2 levels online.
      Paying for the subscription is suposed to open up Online Play. As in, play with other people. Not access online features.
      Even Microsoft which was the culprit in making this "pay for online" BS lets you access online features if it's not playing with other people online. (At the very least it was like that with all the games I played in Xbox 360, I don't know how it is on Xbox One)

  • @yut3216
    @yut3216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    It's not just Steam that's free. Ubisoft has Uplay, EA has Origin, and Blizzard has Battle.net. IF EA CAN MAKE THEIR SERVICE FREE THEN NINTENDO HAS NO EXCUSE.

    • @ChunkSchuldinga
      @ChunkSchuldinga 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      There also the fact that EA gave out free games once in a while just for being on Origin. Only bought The Sims 4 and I ended up with Dead Space, Theme Hospital, SimCity 2000, among others without paying a dime. The Consumerist’s worst company of the year in 2012 and 2013 is literally being more pro-consumer than Nintendo.

    • @yut3216
      @yut3216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@ChunkSchuldinga can we spread this thread to make sure the gaming community sees this and possibly nintendo? I honestly think your reply to my comment is a lot more well worded and presented than mine lmao

    • @Nico-ur2po
      @Nico-ur2po 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Nintendo isn't going to do anything about it as long as people keep paying for it. EA would easily charge if given the opportunity, but PC is an open platform and people would stop buying from them. If you actually want to see changes, then you need protest with your wallet instead of your mouth.

    • @yut3216
      @yut3216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Nico-ur2po A man can wish. Also I'm not paying for online lmao

    • @stairs725
      @stairs725 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      as the koreans say. 인정합니다. or i agree bc EA is a bumfuck stupid ass company and yet they ahve free internmet service bc YOU CAN'T RESTROICT THE INTERNET

  • @instinctlabs8635
    @instinctlabs8635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    You forgot about the biggest problem with this service. Voice chat that is so limited that it may as well not exist

    • @ChaseDobson
      @ChaseDobson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Instinct Labs IMO Nintendo could have solved this one way. Put a headphone jack in the joycons and Pro Controller. It’s very difficult to play games like Fortnite without communicating with your fellow players and playing docked while having your headset plugged into your Switch is a mess. Support a headphone jack and Nintendo could even sell their own headsets which would make a lot more money and people would be more willing to pay and use it. Makes a lot more sense to me than a smartphone app

    • @LOSTLEAD8R
      @LOSTLEAD8R 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's not a problem

    • @Camad
      @Camad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      LOSTLEAD8R Uh yeah it is! One of the best things about Ps4 and Xbox is being able to easily talk and interact with friends and strangers. Sure Nintendo has attempted this but it should be through the console itself, not a flawed phone app with extremely limited features.

    • @Sting_ray
      @Sting_ray 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      LOSTLEAD8R not a problem‽ LOLOLOLOL!! Maybe not for you, but for a LOT of people it is a problem! Sure, it’s a first-world problem and there are workarounds, but other companies have proven its possible, Nintendo just doesn’t want to do it.

    • @sethkauffman9915
      @sethkauffman9915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sting_ray because Nintendo isn't nearly as worried about the 'online' scene as they are the old fashioned local co-op scene...

  • @galaxymew5138
    @galaxymew5138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Not to mention you can't even *play* Tetris 99 if you don't have Nintendo Online!

    • @martinj914
      @martinj914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Which defeats the purpose of free.

    • @MinePlayersPE
      @MinePlayersPE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      isn't there a single-player paid dlc for it tho?

    • @CaptainCFalcon
      @CaptainCFalcon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MinePlayersPE Yep.
      That's right folks, we live in a world where you can get Tetris for free. *_But have to pay money in order to play it the way it was meant to be._*

    • @aki-lucky8345
      @aki-lucky8345 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CaptainCFalcon you get a MULTIPLAYER version for free
      The single player is charged like it has almost always been

    • @CaptainCFalcon
      @CaptainCFalcon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aki-lucky8345 What about my original comment didn't make sense to you? I said there's a Tetris that we get for free.
      But in order to play it like Tetris has always been played, you have to actually pay.

  • @savy4266
    @savy4266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Almost 2020 and still not one game with dedicated servers. Or a messaging system. Or any apps. Its a kick in the balls at this point how bad the service is

    • @victorhugocosta1127
      @victorhugocosta1127 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh but there is a small possibility that they will begin releasing SNES games, which will completely make up a year of a bad service! /s

    • @savy4266
      @savy4266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@victorhugocosta1127 YEET
      Specially if they got the balls to raise the price for it because of that 😂

  • @Spearra
    @Spearra 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Splatoon 2 got done dirty. While the service probably won't die, I will do my best on my end not to support this shady shenanigans. By not buying it, and simply playing singleplayer games, or in the case of Smash, just play locally. With how the Switch functions in general, I really could just directly go to my friends house and game on right then and there.
    That and historically, Smash online from the Brawl era still spooks me. Adding insult to injury, Smash 4 technically had a pretty decent online (compared to Brawl) and that was during the Wii U era when online was free.
    The Switch is an amazing concept and I would like the concept to develop further. I'll support that. But as for the software side of things, online multiplayer games plus the service they use are a no go on my end. Also its Nintendo, so odds are I'll be spoiled for choice on the singleplayer front. It is a little disappointing, but the most I can do is just not buy into it. While it does suck to have a bunch of options of games to be cut on my end, thats how the market works.
    Your wallet, your choice. That choice, is a "vote" of sorts. If you put your choices elsewhere, you're effectively voting for some other product.
    Also Bayonetta 3 is on the way, and if its good (can't rule out every possibility now can we?), I'll add that to the list of singleplayer games to play. While my decisions won't make a difference, at least I can feel like it is.

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s basically what I’m doing and I think it’s a good way to be about this ( don’t let some whiny insulting little kid make you feel otherwise)

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Firenze 64 reason for that last part was some ijit insulting me for saying the same thing you did

    • @seeen64
      @seeen64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're doing everything in their power to make me want to pay for online and I really do. The new weapons, subs, stages, SPECIALS, and the 48 HOUR SPLATFEST. I'm this close to tipping over the edge.

    • @firenze6424
      @firenze6424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Omega019283 that’s just it all that effort for paid multiplayer only while the main game suffers ! It’s why I refuse to pay for this poop

    • @NoBodyUKnow100
      @NoBodyUKnow100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You know how it goes. The consumer votes with their wallet. Every one person that doesn't pay for NSO does go noticed in the long run.
      I do think if the ENTIRETY of the community went with a cold "nope" for about a month or two; Nintendo would have backpedaled. Though that's a theoretical nigh-impossibility all things considered.

  • @ASDFG856
    @ASDFG856 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    the service is so bad that even Arlo doesn't like it.

    • @Openreality
      @Openreality 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They're were left 35k dislikes on their ad for it so yeah Nintendo is being Nintendo. I didn't buy their shitty cardboard just for a game, and I won't buy a shitty online service just for a small por th in of the virtual console and a feature that should be free. With Net Neutrality going away slowly, this is getting absurd that gamers have to pay for internet at least 3 times just to play their games online.

    • @pandasbass7267
      @pandasbass7267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      james wolfsbane unless they give us dedicated servers, no online game should have a pay wall front of it: Ps4, Xbox and switch

    • @trayson
      @trayson 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That doesn't really say much; Arlo hasn't ever really been shy of criticizing even things he likes.

    • @spacedp
      @spacedp 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jameswolfsbane7261
      He doesn't have to agree with Arlo.

    • @mrmanakin9684
      @mrmanakin9684 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Openreality actually it has way more games then the new classic and with better graphics

  • @kdog1294
    @kdog1294 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was the option that Nintendo offered for storage up until the cloud saves came out?

  • @scrutinygametalk7136
    @scrutinygametalk7136 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for using your platform to expose this even further Arlo. I made a video on this as well but i'm glad someone more popular was able to say it. Keep up the good work.