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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago

So what happens if you aren’t a subscriber and press the C button? [...] “You would be able to find out about the NSO subscription there and get a sense of some of the functionality,” he said.

Oh that's awesome. Everybody loves when they accidentally press an in-game button that hijacks what you're doing and loads a store page. Now you have a physical button that does the same!

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

It'd be one thing if the button was simply non-functional without the NSO subscription, but this is Nintendo so it has to be shitty lol

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

These buttons are almost never inactive when it makes sense. There’s an old joke about things being difficult to use when engineers making design decisions, but we’re in the much worse paradigm where marketing executives make design decisions. Unfortunately a good user experience might lose a potential sale.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Like the Amazon prime video button on my TV remote control. Every fucking time.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

I hit the Netflix button on my bluray player and it’ll stop playing the movie I’m watching to open Netflix. Ofc outside of decoding blurays the device is underpowered and the Netflix app hasn’t been updated in years so it’s a very slow loading process too.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My Shield remote has a Netflix button. It's one of the biggest buttons and I swear one of the easiest to press as well. You can bump the remote and Netflix pops up

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And the funny thing is that after some updates in my TV, i could uninstall the (Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten) apps from it. But guess what. When you push the button, it opens the apps store to the page of (Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten) app to install it. I mean how much idiots must they be?

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

having a permanent ad on the controller is some real capitalist innovation lmao

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not from Nintendo though, TVs have been doing that shit for a while

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Having to pay for basic online services for games you've already purchased for a current gen console is exploitative to begin with

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Finding out I had to pay for a service back on the original Xbox to play online was rage inducing; on the Playstation (was) and PC playing online is free, why would I pay for something that's supposed to be free?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

And people will still pay for it and find a way to defend it

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Nottheonion

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Is that the button that does online shit?

If they’re charging for online shit then the button that does online shit is t gonna work unless you paid to have online shit.

I don’t think online shit should be $40 a month like psn is but having a button that does online shit require that you have the online shit subscription to work is a nothingburger.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I mean, it'd be nice if it can be remapped.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

other consoles have done kinda similar shit with "social" features but this is such a blatant way to trick some kid into setting up a subscription service with their dad's credit card coz they tried closing mariokart and opened up the store page instead

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

So hyped to get griefed by my console.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Oh boy. Will this be the console that tops the Virtual Boy in lowest sales for a Nintendo console? Has the video game Antichrist made its appearance?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

haha what the fuck

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hope modders crack this one open and do their best

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Even Xbox doesn't require a subscription for voice chat. And why can't I just use Discord like I can everywhere else?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

lmao looks like the Swtich will remain the only Nintendo console I've ever bought.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not really that surprising that an online feature requires an online membership. As far as online memberships go $1.67 per month is negligible to most people.

It should be remappable if it has no use but Nintendo are weird like that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It has been confirmed to be remappable, there's a video Nintendo posted of the button mapping functionality and it's shown as remappable.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Right, no issues then.

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