Why the Nintendo Switch Online Service is Terrible

[GR News]

A few days ago, Nintendo revealed various additional details about the Nintendo Switch Online service. Including various features like voice chat, save backups and video game subscriptions, the service is meant to bring Nintendo’s online infrastructure into the 21st century, as well as offer something comparable to Microsoft and Sony’s affairs in the same space. […]
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[テクニカル諏訪子]

And it’s indicative of how old fashioned Nintendo’s attitude is in general. Things like cloud saving or screenshots should not be ‘game specific’ things that devs can disable, they should be across the board OS ones. For instance, imagine if Windows let programs disable print screen, or the clipboard, or keyboard use or saving to certain directories. It’d be seen as rightly ridiculous.

What is a "board OS"?
And actually, Windows does have all the abilities you've mentioned, either per app, or system wide, or (introduced in Windows 10) whenever Microsoft feels like doing so.

Yet Nintendo allows just that. It’s proof of their very old fashioned/very Japanese salaryman sequel attitude that you can only use their products one way, and to sod off if you disagree.

A very Japanese salaryman who can't have an alternative opinion?
Last time I looked on my calendar, I saw we lived in 2018, not 1943.

But I agree with the rest of the article, not only we had to go from one delay to another, it's all very poorly handled too.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I just hate the fact I got to pay to play online for smash.