Nintendo seems to treat all of their online services as an addition to their product. This appears in a few ways: - No integrated voice chat for Switch, an ex

Nintendo seems to treat all of their online services as an addition to their product. This appears in a few ways: - No integrated voice chat for Switch, an existing mobile device is used instead - Significant delay between product launch and paid online service availability - System upgrades included on-cart for the system so you're not in a situation where you need a system update but don't have online access so you can't play the game you just put in your system - DLC is actually bonus content, not an integral part of the game split off about 50% through development and stuffed behind a paywall to drive pre-order upgrades - "Day one DLC"/"On disc/cart DLC" not the primary upsell mode on the Switch for Nintendo developed games - instead, free content packs and paid content packs are slowly released when they're done Sony and Microsoft seem to treat online services as an integral part of their product, make money when a developer has to publish a patch (after the first submitted patch), and seem to encourage a ridiculous amount of microtransaction DLC (example: There are a ton of DLC packs for LittleBigPlanet 3, including packs of three Marvel, DC, and cartoon characters, all priced at about what a child would get for allowance in a week, Sony taking a 20%-30% of each sold, naturally). As a result, it seems that Nintendo really does their level best to release games without showstopping bugs because they aren't as reliant on the online component to patch their games. I remember there being a bug in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (on the Wii) that would cause you to lose your progress if you triggered it[1]. Nintendo apologized, issued updated discs, and put up a Wii channel that would fix your save data if it was corrupted by this bug. [1] More info: https://zelda.gamepedia.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Skyward_Sword_Save_Data_Update_Channel https://zelda.gamepedia.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Skyward_Swo...