Nintendo announced the new Nintendo Switch Online app for iOS and Android. Title the release is scheduled for July 21 this year.
The app will be designed to ensure that owners of mobile devices can use them with Nintendo console Switch in compatible games. The first game will be a team shooter Splatoon 2.
With the iPhone it will be possible to voice chat with friends, invite them to online games, create teams, watch the statistics, to have access to the network SplatNet 2. The smartphones will notify owners Nintendo Switch on the notifications received and the events.
This functionality will be free until the launch of the Nintendo Online service Switch, which is scheduled for 2018. At the time of the initial announcement, the Japanese company did not say anything about the perceived value of subscription is quite logical, since the launch of the paid service will take place only next year.
The service should cost $ 4 a month or $ 20 per year. This means that unlike services like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live that cost the players at $60 per year fee for the online service Nintendo is about 2-3 times less. Even taking into account the free monthly games from Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has some advantage.
