Nintendo Switch Online 14-Day Free Trial Is Now Available (North America)

They should also extend every subscriber’s subscription by 2 weeks.

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@Zach777 Why? A current customer already paid for their subscription and is using their time. This is just a trial to get new customers.

As much hate as NSO gets, the family expansion pack is a fantastic deal if you have friends to share the cost with. NSO is the only subscription service which I have, and it works out to be cheaper than any Netflix or Disney+ subscription to fill entertainment needs.

There's a bazillion games on there I want to play I'm sure I won't even get to by the time the service shuts down. Bang for the buck and keeps me interested to see new games released because I definitely have my hopes up to see some eventually!

@Ryu_Niiyama

I realize what it’s for.

Just saying it would be a cool gesture of them to extend every paying subscriber by 2 weeks, that’s all.

Having the extra traffic of non paying customers for 2 weeks may effect current subscribers experiences.

Switch emulator? What Switch emulator? You mean our NSO apps that let you play a pitiful amount of our legacy catalogue? Look at this, avert your gaze from the other headlines about us, nothing to see here, no siree!

@KayFiOS Yes how very generous of them to let me rent 30 year old games for two weeks that my phone already runs while upscaled to look 8x better than on NSO.

That said, redeemed mine and turned off auto renew so I can go get my butt beat on Smash online a little at least. So glad f2p games don't require a BS subscription service to use online like we live in 2001 still.

@Zach777 How would the trial users impact a current customer’s experience?

@Ryu_Niiyama

Overloaded servers. Not saying it’s likely, just possible. Good questions, you’re clearly a thinker.

@Zach777 Ah that would usually have already been mapped out (and spikes monitored over time to anticipate) as well as server load balancing. Usually it’s just the Christmas day rush where the servers are like “send help” because that’s just too much traffic no matter what. I don’t envy the admins on that day.

@jco83 And only a total sheep would consider the legitimate emulator preferable to the illegitimate one. Just look at Nintendo's Game Boy lineup on the Switch. 18 games after one year is absolutely pathetic compared to the NES lineup one year in, and right at launch there were glaring omissions that are still absent on the app. That's not an issue through illegitimate emulation. I can play games like Donkey Kong '94, Super Mario Land, the first two Wario Land games, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, and Mole Mania, and that's just a small handful of Nintendo's first party games that are still oddly absent from the NSO app; bring in games from third parties, and the list of Nintendo's offerings becomes the size of an ant by comparison.
Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve, described piracy as a services problem, and because Nintendo doesn't want to do anything to make their services better, there will always be an incentive to emulate their games through illegitimate means. Nintendo may not like it, but they are competing against unofficial emulators. If they want people to stop emulating their games, maybe they should offer a way to actually play them.
I'm not going to pretend like Nintendo wasn't right to take down Yuzu, since there are always going to be people who want to play current gen software without paying for it, but Citra was caught in the crossfire, and it emulated the 3DS, a system that Nintendo no longer makes any kind of profit from, and they deserve all the negative press and criticism they received because of it. Announcing a free 2-week trial for people to play on their official emulator right after taking down 2 unofficial ones feels like a scummy attempt to distract the public.

Thank you series x for letting me play all these on retroarch!
I'll keep saying it, I would buy so many games from nso if nintendo.allowed, but no. So, stuff em!

@jco83 Call it what you will. I'm enjoying playing my 3DS games on my Steam deck, since I did install Citra right before it got shut down. I dumped my own copies, since my 3DS no longer functions properly, and the face buttons require the force of a hydraulic press to register an input, making the system itself impractical to play these games with. And unlike the subscription services I'm currently paying for on the Switch, I can keep my games on the Steam Deck even if I'm offline, and don't need to pay a subscription service to be able to play them.
This is the last time I'll be responding to you, because you can't come up with a decent argument to save your life and only know how to insult people. That isn't constructive, it accomplishes nothing, and I have better things to do.

@KayFiOS My intention was not to insult, only to convey what I feel is obvious. I'll remind you you called me a sheep. I could say that about all the people regurgitating the same arguments in favour of unofficial emulation.

An unofficial emulator has no right to exist. I am well aware many do exist. Nintendo has every right to offer emulators of its own consoles. They would obviously be the only ones that do have that right.

You mentioned preference when talking about unofficial emulators being better than official ones. It isn't a question of preference. It's simply a case of who has the right to offer it.

It actually seems quite difficult to make points against unofficial emulation, as there is so much parroting of the same arguments over and over again: preservation / I'll play my games on any hardware I choose / if Nintendo offered adequate services people wouldn't do it ... etc

Any reason is just an excuse to justify it, to reinforce resolve to continue doing it, and to further spread word of doing it.

@jco83 I never called you a sheep specifically. I only called people who prefer official emulation versus unofficial emulation sheep, and that's because Nintendo doesn't offer a good reason to support their official emulation, not since the Virtual Console anyway, which I feel is the better system, as I could buy those emulated ports. The handful of GB games I listed above were all available for purchase on the 3DS eShop before Nintendo pulled the plug on it, and they're still on my busted, old "New" 3DS. And maybe you do have a point that Nintendo is the only one who has any right to offer emulation, but they're not exactly doing a good job at it, and if they really want people to move away from unofficial emulation, they need to offer a better service that competes with it. You can see that as an excuse to justify it, but that doesn't mean it's an invalid excuse. If anything, it's an excuse for Nintendo to do better. Most emulators are developed by fans during their free time, whereas Nintendo has the resources to make good quality emulators that outpace these fan projects, but to them, offering a decent way to play their old games isn't a top priority; they'd rather spend that time trying to set a legal precedent that unofficial emulation should be illegal so they don't have any competition in the emulation market.

@KayFiOS I appreciate your comment. Unofficial emulation of current gen is without doubt a big no no. It just so happens that those who created the Switch emulator also created the 3DS emulator, and they agreed to take availability of both down. Everybody has their own opinions, the world is full of lots of different views and that's a good thing. People have their own moral compass, and we all live and learn every day. It strikes me that unofficial emulation has become more and more accepted as the norm. Dumping and ripping games leads to them being shared online. I remember being struck by how prevalent piracy on the DS became back at that time. And now this gen it became the norm to see people advising others that it is preferable to get a Steam Deck and emulate, instead of getting a Switch. I appreciate what you're saying about games that are no longer available. But that is part of marketing. Withholding things. Things the owner has every right to make available or not, that's their prerogative. No individual has any right to demand something which belongs to someone else be made available to them. It is completely up to Nintendo what they do with their games regardless of what critics say. Nintendo will be analysing and strategizing, and planning how to market everything they have created over all that time. Nintendo is a wonder, I really hope and want it to succeed.

@jco83 I appreciate that we were able to have a discussion around this. I don't condone the use of emulators for the purpose of piracy of current gen software. I understand there are people who use Yuzu in a legal capacity, owning their cartridge dumps, and wanting to play with the resolution bump and frame rate enhancements, but they are in the minority. Yuzu's team couldn't possibly have not known people are going to use their software for piracy, despite their statement stating otherwise. If they were truly concerned about being attacked by Nintendo's legal ninjas, they should have just withheld the emulator until the next gen Nintendo system releases.

@KayFiOS I really appreciate it too 👍 It's so much better to have a conversation about something

Wonder if this has something to do with insuring people see Switch 2 news?