Nintendo Switch’s online service to cost between $15 and $30 per year

Nintendo didn’t offer up a price for their upcoming online service when they unveiled it last month, but now we have something we can work with, and it’s straight from the top.

Nintendo’s president Tatsumi Kimishima spoke to Japanese business newspaper Nikkei, and industry watcher Dr. Serkan Toto relayed the results. Kimishima told the paper that the system’s online service will have a yearly cost between 2,000 and 3,000 yen. In American currency, that’s somewhere between $15 and $30.

When Nintendo revealed the Switch, they also revealed a plan to expand their online services. Concern from fans was that the previously-free service wouldn’t live up to the cost associated with it. At just half the price of Sony and Microsoft’s services in a worst-case scenario, Nintendo will have a lot less to worry about in terms of justifying the cost of their service.

Nintendo has a little while to figure things out

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/02/01/nintendo-switch-online-service-price/