Nintendo Switch Online Launching Tonight After eShop Maintenance

The long-overdue Nintendo Switch Online service will finally launch tonight, allowing players to upload their game saves to the cloud, play select NES titles, and play games online—with some caveats. Though Nintendo announced the date of Tuesday, September 18, the service won’t be live until quite late tonight after three hours of Nintendo eShop maintenance.

According to their support website, the maintenance will occur from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm PST, or 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm EST. After that, membership plans, both Individual and Family, can be purchased directly from the eShop or Nintendo’s own website. Like with eShop games on the Switch, MyNintendo Gold Coins can be used to help pay for a subscription.

Here’s a full rundown on the main features that Nintendo Switch Online has, although the fact that cloud saves will not be compatible with all games is hidden quite well. As a reminder, pricing will be $3.99 a month, $7.99 for three months, $19.99 for 12 months, or $34.99 a year for a Family Membership plan with 2-7 people.

Those who don’t want to pay up yet can enjoy the service for a 7-day free trial—get in all of that Splatoon 2 play while you still can.

Posted: Sep 18, 2018 1:20 pm
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion

Source: https://www.dualshockers.com/nintendo-switch-online-launch/

Comments

JastyPosted: Tue. Sep 25, 2018

Haven't purchased yet but might split the family deal with some friends that sounds like the best value for a bunch to get the online membership.

JimboPosted: Tue. Sep 25, 2018

Honestly some amazing prices for online. Wish Xbox was this cheap.

CraigPosted: Mon. Sep 24, 2018

Online for the switch, now that's an interesting concept.

GroguPosted: Sun. Sep 23, 2018

coolbunny1234 Glad this is finally happening, I think it'll improve Nintendo's offering quite the amount.

same they're doing good this year killing the game. I think xbox and ps need to step their games up now lol

GroguPosted: Sun. Sep 23, 2018

Mario350 people complain about this but we have 0 idea how it is going to even work, arent we going to be getting free games every month like xbl and psn like many said before?(what i heard), plus cheap prices for a year and up to 8 switchs(friends who are broke and cant afford online) hell yeah im excited for the service

I think they will introduce free monthly games but who knows, we can only hope

GroguPosted: Sun. Sep 23, 2018

Eternity This doesn't make me any more interested in getting a Switch. There was online play before this, and now they are just going to start charging for it. It's a shame that is how the gaming system model works today. I'm gonna stick with my PC.

Well yeah I'd stick with PC if I had one and it was good enough to run games I like to play, but Switch is just killing the market this year!

GroguPosted: Sun. Sep 23, 2018

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Mikey
Wizard There is a lot of shit coming out for the switch I might actually buy one

I know right, Nintendo killin it still lol, so many great games coming out, and so much more to look forward too.

They have done such a good job compared to what they did with the Wii

Hell yeah the Wii wasn't the greatest but the Switch has definitely killed the markets for Nintendo

TikToK_LavishCODPosted: Thu. Sep 20, 2018

Mikey
Wizard There is a lot of shit coming out for the switch I might actually buy one

I know right, Nintendo killin it still lol, so many great games coming out, and so much more to look forward too.

They have done such a good job compared to what they did with the Wii

TOXICPosted: Tue. Sep 18, 2018

Wizard There is a lot of shit coming out for the switch I might actually buy one

I know right, Nintendo killin it still lol, so many great games coming out, and so much more to look forward too.