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Nintendo Switch: Online service fee priced at around $30 USD for one year

2 Feb 2017
Steve Wright

Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima has confirmed with Japanese newspaper Nikkei that the Switch’s annual multiplayer fee will be approximately $30 USD.

Kimishima priced the Switch’s online charge — akin to that of Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus — at somewhere between 2,000-3,00 yen, or approximately $20-30 USD. To compare, a year of Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus is priced at $60 USD.

The charge will allow for online play and a free game each month — though, unlike Xbox or PlayStation, players will only have access to that gifted game for one month. Perhaps you get what you pay for?

The Nintendo Switch hits store shelves on 3 March. We’ll inform you about Australian subscription prices when they’re known.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.