N64/Megadrive Switch Online Expansion

I don't think the price is too bad. The messaging was a bit confusing at first - I thought it was €40 on top of the €20 you already pay for a yearly sub, but €40 all in for a full year seems reasonable to me. That being said, I already don't play the NES and SNES games all that much, and I only played Animal Crossing for a few weeks so the included DLC for that means nothing to me, so I probably won't upgrade at the moment. Maybe in a year when we see how things have expanded I might take the plunge.

I'm pretty sure it covers up to 8 accounts and they don't have to all be in the same house or anything. 8 strangers could just get a family sub together.

Unless there is a clampdown like Spotify did the family sub sharing is definitely the way to go. The thing I'm curious about is will there be a forced upgrade to the new online service or could you potentially buy now and stack a bunch of individual or family subs for say the next 36 months and see how this plays out.

We may see a PSN type system with games added periodically later down the line, I need the online myself for Pokemon and the occasional play of Animal Crossing.

Am I reading this right that anybody who wishes to upgrade to the expansion from the regular will get a discount equivalent to 5c or 9c for every remaining day on the original sub?

So if you got switch online for €20 6 months ago you get €9 (180 X 0.05) off the expansion and have to pay a further €31 for 12 months access? In other words you pay €51 for 6 months regular + 12 months expansion. So it costs a Euro more than usual

Also at the bottom of the page

no discount can be applied if your current membership was purchased with a download code.

So anybody that bought a code in a shop doesn't get a discount?

Says "launching October 26th" so tomorrow

Midnight tonight I would guess

Strange that they haven't allowed the process to start yet

Yeah to me a tenner a year isn't a whole lot of money for what we get but each to their own

Never liked wave race... Maybe it's because of the slowness we had in the PAL version

I think it represents good value myself

I get that but it's a tenner a year, not exactly bank breaking stuff

Lots of chat on the interwebs that input lag is terrible, OoT supposedly the worst of the lot. In response about as many saying it's fine for them, docked or handheld.

So possibly crap emulation, or possibly just drama Llamas, clearly seems like ymmv.

We renewed about 6 months ago but used a code so no discount, which we are a little bit sore about no doubt, there's 7 in our family so it cost us €5 each back then.

If we upgrade today we have to pay a tenner each, but because we don't get a discount we lose the ~€2.50 so let's call it effectively €12.50 if we upgrade

For that we get the base version of switch online, which would cost a fiver anyway. So for 3 services (N64, Animal Crossing and Mega Drive) we are paying €7.50

Let's assume we have no interest in Animal Crossing or Mega Drive games so €7.50 gets us 12 months of access to 9 games. with a further 7 in the pipeline. I'm also going to assume we would be interested in playing half of these games because, let's be fair, no game will please everybody

So we are talking €7.50 for ~4 retro games at launch and 8 after the library gets expanded, which is about €1 per game for the years access

So for me that's worth it

No definitely not as straight forward, you would need to weigh up if your kids would use the DLC/N64/MD games for one