Nintendo Everything translated a long interview from the Japanese Famitsu magazine, in which Nintendo general manager Shinya Takahashi and deputy general manager Yoshiaki Koizumi explained why the Big N will be
charging for online play later this year.
Sadly, what I recently learned from Times columnist, Richard Susskind, is indeed the case: The Times, TimesOnline and the Sunday Times will begin
charging for online access.
I don't see a service it's providing by
charging for online gameplay.
Charging for online play removes any excuse Nintendo might have should the service's performance prove poor, and Nintendo surely deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Charging for online play is becoming more popular as video game companies want to generate a steady revenue stream separate from sales of $ 60 discs after launching a big game a few times a year and squeeze as much money as possible out of their hits.
Already you guys are
charging for online passes, yet you don't ALLOW me to play the content that I have PAID for on my OWN PS3?!
Nintendo needs to get with the times, especially if they're
charging for online.
Nintendo is joining the ranks of PlayStation and Xbox in that it will finally start
charging for its online services with its Switch console, but its option will be far more affordable.
They are now
charging for online play!
The only reason Nintendo is not
charging for online play yet is because they barely have online.
Nintendo won't suddenly start
charging for online play in the middle of a generation.
Despite this being Nintendo's first time
charging for online play, it needs to avoid major missteps.
TorStar has been planning to
charge for its online content for some time now.
At the start of 2012, virtually no major Canadian daily newspaper outside the Maritimes
charged for online content.
Instead of paying for every online learner who is enrolled, this LMS pricing model only
charges you for online learners who are actually active in your eLearning course.
All credit card
charges for online donations will appear from Friends of KIPP New Orleans as well.
Murdoch didn't divulge any major plans as the company moved toward a pay - for - content model, though he did say that The Wall Street Journal, one of the few newspapers that have successfully
charged for online news, will start charging non-subscribers $ 2 a week to access content on mobile devices such as the BlackBerry, he said.
In early 2009, Hearst began rethinking its digital strategy, a process that initially involved plans to
charge for online news at some of its papers, though as of May 2012, none of its papers charged for online access.
SSI does not
charge for their online training.
5) Well yeah, why should Nintendo
charge for online when they barely allow for in - game chat among friends.
Do you think that console manufacturers should continue to
charge for online play?
Only Microsoft
charges for their online subscription.
@Channel - Live Xbox
charged for online gaming since day 1.
Nintendo do not
charge for an online service but it is clear that they see the potential of digital as it provides higher margin for them and also allows them to extend the lifecycle of their games and retain users on their service.
They think it's fair to
charge for online services that have previously been available for no extra cost.
Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Worldwide Studios president, has promised that the surprise decision to
charge for online multiplayer with the Playstation 4 is not a scheme to just earn money, but the money gained from it will be invested into the system to fund improvements.
Like Sony and Microsoft have since learned, if you're going to sell a console and
charge for online play, you need to sweeten the deal, so Nintendo will likewise be giving out free games to anyone subscribing to its online service on the Switch.
As top executives from competing newspapers met last week to consider such issues as whether to
charge for online content, Editor & Publisher asks whether collective industry action would violate antitrust law.
Third, for law firms to
charge for online legal services, it must not be perceived that these systems are internal systems that are simply being recycled for clients» use.
Or the Internet will collapse, or the prices publishers
charge for the online version will go through the roof leading to cancellation — and if the online version was the only one subscribed, then, poof, the library would have nothing.
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(Conveniently ignoring the reality that many newspapers, including ours, tried and failed to
charge for online content.)