Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2’s C button
Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2’s C button
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Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2’s C button
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having a permanent ad on the controller is some real capitalist innovation lmao
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Not from Nintendo though, TVs have been doing that shit for a while
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Having to pay for basic online services for games you've already purchased for a current gen console is exploitative to begin with
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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?
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no, the problem is that there's like 4 trans athletes in the world
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And people will still pay for it and find a way to defend it
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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.
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I mean, it'd be nice if it can be remapped.
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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
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Nottheonion
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So hyped to get griefed by my console.
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haha what the fuck
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I hope modders crack this one open and do their best
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Even Xbox doesn't require a subscription for voice chat. And why can't I just use Discord like I can everywhere else?
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lmao looks like the Swtich will remain the only Nintendo console I've ever bought.
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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.
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It has been confirmed to be remappable, there's a video Nintendo posted of the button mapping functionality and it's shown as remappable.
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Right, no issues then.
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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!
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
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.
Like the Amazon prime video button on my TV remote control. Every fucking time.
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.