{"id":96198,"date":"2019-07-05T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/346145"},"modified":"2019-07-05T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:06:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-online-now-has-over-10-million-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/nintendo-switch-online-now-has-over-10-million-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Online now has over 10 million subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Nintendo\u2019s paid Switch membership has surpassed 10 million subscribers worldwide, a milestone announced alongside talk of Nintendo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/346132\/Nintendo_is_investigating_5G_and_streaming_tech_but_refuses_to_chase_trends.php\">plans for emerging technology and other topics<\/a> at a recent Q&amp;A with shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Last we heard of Nintendo Switch Online, the service had amassed 9.8 million subscribers worldwide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/341553\/Over_98_million_people_are_using_Nintendos_premium_Switch_Online_service.php\">That last milestone<\/a> came a little over two months back, so around 2 million subscribers have signed up for the service in that small amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that three-month-long subscriptions to Nintendo Switch Online (up to one year\u2019s worth) are being given away as a perk to Twitch Prime members through January 2020, and that ongoing giveaway has likely given the service\u2019s numbers a boost. Without the promotion, Nintendo Switch Online typically retails for $19.99 for a year, or $7.99 for three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Nintendo\u2019s paid Switch membership has surpassed 10 million subscribers worldwide, a milestone announced alongside talk of Nintendo\u2019s plans for emerging technology and other topics at a recent Q&amp;A with shareholders. Last we heard of Nintendo Switch Online, the service had amassed 9.8 million subscribers worldwide. That last milestone came a little over two months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}