{"id":96250,"date":"2019-07-07T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/itrs_official_the_switch_online_service_has_surpassed_10_million_subscribers"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:05:00","slug":"its-official-the-switch-online-service-has-surpassed-10-million-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/07\/its-official-the-switch-online-service-has-surpassed-10-million-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: The Switch Online Service Has Surpassed 10 Million Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c4cb03ba9c3a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c4cb03ba9c3a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Online\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c4cb03ba9c3a\/nintendo-switch-online.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c4cb03ba9c3a\/nintendo-switch-online.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Online\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch Online service might have only been launched late last year, but it&#8217;s already got more than 10 million subscribers. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed this at the company&#8217;s recent Shareholder Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The number of subscribers for Nintendo Switch Online has increased steadily since the service was launched last September, and it has now surpassed 10 million accounts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been well-known the service was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/9_8_million_switch_owners_have_signed_up_to_the_online_service_and_2_8_million_have_played_tetris_99\">close to 10 million<\/a> users since April.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about how Nintendo would \u201ccontinue to make the content of the service more appealing going forward\u201d he referenced existing offerings such as the online NES library and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tetris_99\">Tetris 99<\/a><\/strong>. He also mentioned how current subscribers gained access to additional services like Save Data Cloud Backup and game vouchers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo Switch Online provides users the ability to play Nintendo Switch games over the internet, both competitively and cooperatively. It also provides services such as Nintendo Entertainment System &#8211; Nintendo Switch Online, Save Data Cloud Backup, and smartphone application services such as online lobbies and voice chat. In addition, we provided TETRIS 99 as a special offer to Nintendo Switch Online members this February, and then in May, began selling Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers that allow users to purchase two Nintendo Switch download titles at a discount.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>How would you like to see Nintendo improve the value of the online service moving forward? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch Online service might have only been launched late last year, but it&#8217;s already got more than 10 million subscribers. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed this at the company&#8217;s recent Shareholder Q&amp;A. The number of subscribers for Nintendo Switch Online has increased steadily since the service was launched last September, and it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96250","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=96250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}