Switch $20 Subscription For Classic Games, Skeptics Are Now Groveling For Forgiveness

Nintendo is launching a subscription service for its Switch console, which will allow players to take classic games out for a spin on the new unit. The service will cost players $20 a year and they can have access to NES games. This is likely to make an already popular console even more in demand, which is an occasion that the Switch’s detractors are now starting to regret.

It should be noted that the subscription service will not become available until 2018, The Chicago Tribune reports. It will be called Switch Online and will open the console up to a variety of online features that are now present in both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One.

Aside from acting as a social space for the players, it will also activate the online features of many of the games on the Switch’s library. In addition, it will also include the ability to play older games, which were found in the NES and the SNES.

Considering that it only costs $20 to use the service for a whole year, it’s an incredibly cheap setup. It’s also an important part of Nintendo’s business enterprise since it will need to court some more developers that will then make more games for the console. This is simply a must even with all the success that the Switch is experiencing right now.

Speaking of the success that Nintendo’s new console is seeing, the company certainly put its biggest detractors and critics in their places when the Switch took off like a rocket. As arguably the hottest gaming commodity in the market right now, even contributors like Dave Thier at Forbes had to admit their mistake and apologize for their dismissive attitude towards the console.

Of course, everyone has the right to be skeptical about anything. It just so happens that when it came to the Switch, a lot of the doubters were proven wrong.