Nintendo says it will continue to increase the appeal of Switch online service
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Nintendo's online service for the Switch may not be everyone's cup of tea, but company president Shuntaro Furukawa said earlier this year that new members "continue to join "and more than 15 million users have been registered since its launch in September 2018.
During the company's last conference call (fiscal year ended March 2020), Furukawa was asked to update. If he was unwilling to disclose the latest figures, in terms of the number of subscribers, he once again mentioned how the Japanese video game giant was eager to increase the Service appeal, claiming that memberships had "steadily increased" since the launch of online titles like Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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As for the number of paid memberships for Nintendo Switch Online, we don't plan to reveal a specific number this time, but memberships are steadily increasing with the expansion of the hardware installation base at beyond 15 million accounts, the number that we have already announced on the Business Management Policy Briefing in January 2020. The number of paid memberships has increased in particular since the launch of titles that take support online games, such as Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. By adding elements that make games even more fun to play and increasing the appeal of the service itself, we hope to continually make it a service that makes Nintendo Switch even more enjoyable and convenient for consumers.
Nintendo who wants to increase the attractiveness of the NSO is nothing new. In fact, Furukawa has been talking about strengthening the service with "more games, more features, and more fun" since November 2018. At the time, he also noted how time consuming it would be:
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We still need to improve the content of the service so that the subscriber base reaches a certain size, so this is what we are working on, it being understood that the time it will take will be measured in years.
As recently as yesterday, Nintendo announced that it would be strengthening its SNES and NES Switch Online libraries with four other games. These titles include Wild weapons, Logic pump operation, Pon paneland Rygarand will be out next week on May 20.
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