A woman walks past a large scale figurine of Nintendo Co.'s Mario video game character at the 'Nintendo Check In' game experience area at Terminal 1 of the Kansai International Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Nintendo is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings figures on July 31. Photographer: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg
Good things come to those who wait. Except, maybe, for Nintendo Co gamers.
The company that created Super Mario and Zelda is finally embracing online gaming with the debut of its first online subscription service, charging US$20 a year for users of its Switch console to play each other across the Web. The move comes more than a decade after rivals Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp started similar products that today generate billions of dollars in subscription fees.
Limited time offer:
Just RM5 per month.
