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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what happens if you aren’t a subscriber and press the C button? [...] “You would be able to find out about the NSO subscription there and get a sense of some of the functionality,” he said.

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!

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like the Amazon prime video button on my TV remote control. Every fucking time.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

My Shield remote has a Netflix button. It's one of the biggest buttons and I swear one of the easiest to press as well. You can bump the remote and Netflix pops up

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

And the funny thing is that after some updates in my TV, i could uninstall the (Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten) apps from it. But guess what. When you push the button, it opens the apps store to the page of (Netflix, Amazon, Rakuten) app to install it. I mean how much idiots must they be?

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

having a permanent ad on the controller is some real capitalist innovation lmao

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Not from Nintendo though, TVs have been doing that shit for a while

[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having to pay for basic online services for games you've already purchased for a current gen console is exploitative to begin with

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

pisses me off so much that nintendo is doing this greedy shit. (it has nothing to do with our economic model btw this is all because there was a black lady as a character in some other game nintendo didnt even make) (plus they made ellie in the last of us show look different too thats yhe problem here)

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

no, the problem is that there's like 4 trans athletes in the world

[–] drippylilkitten@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

And people will still pay for it and find a way to defend it

[–] kefalos@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago

Nottheonion

[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

No it's not. It's a baked-in way to manipulate people into paying for their stupid online. Its mere presence is vile. Easily could have been put inside the home button's menu/UI.

I'm also imagining accidentally hitting it with my palm and getting really annoyed at it pausing my game.

[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

I mean, it'd be nice if it can be remapped.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

So hyped to get griefed by my console.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Oh boy. Will this be the console that tops the Virtual Boy in lowest sales for a Nintendo console? Has the video game Antichrist made its appearance?

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

haha what the fuck

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hope modders crack this one open and do their best

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

lmao looks like the Swtich will remain the only Nintendo console I've ever bought.

[–] Starlet@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even Xbox doesn't require a subscription for voice chat. And why can't I just use Discord like I can everywhere else?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has been confirmed to be remappable, there's a video Nintendo posted of the button mapping functionality and it's shown as remappable.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Right, no issues then.