Thread:Hitsuji Mamoru/@comment-30314236-20170204130437/@comment-30314236-20170420170346

Nintendo has been very nice for many years when it came to this things.

Wii didn't have any DLC, it was when 3DS and WiiU got released when this all started.

Some games like Fire Emblem: Awakening had a few DLC, but they were not that important, so you could nafford to skip them. But FE: if (Fates) was pretty much a pain in the ass. Just to say, imagine the 3 different routes in Fate VN, but you had to pay for the 3 parts individually to fully understand the story. You payed for one, but have to pay again for the other 2 (with a slight discount) to know everything. But I guess this is an exception. There may be other games, but this is a common example of things that got wild in Nintendo

There are games for 3DS and WiiU that got regular free updates, like Splatoon, or had DLCs included in western regions, like Xenoblade Chronicles X. Games like Mario Kart 8, who had 2 DLCs, were very reasonable with the price (and you could also get a discount). Hyrule Warriors is complicated, since technically is a Koei Tecmo game, not from Nintendo, so they are the responible ones for DLC. And Super Smash Bros Bros, went, like, super-duper-hyper-mega wild with DLCs. To summarize, all the DLCs cost the double than the regular game, more or less (at least in my country), but this is excusable since a lot of them were made because the fans asked for them, and were developed after the game was released, and this isn't something you could say about many compannies. Nintendo was kind within this terms.

However... Switch is getting astray from this path slowly. It all started with online services, which you have to py to use them (within the games, I mean, and is cheaper than other compannies, though), and it's starting to act like Sony or Microsoft using some of their techniques, from my point of view. I wish I'm wrong and there are just a few things to improve a little in earnings, because Nintendo lost a big amount of monney with the WiiU (even though I have and I like it, that's a fact).

What a wall of text I've done...