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Talking Point: Nintendo Has Stumbled With Switch Online, But It Can Learn From Its Mistakes

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"Learning when and how to react is not a natural skill".

It's long been said – mostly by the company's critics, admittedly - that Nintendo 'doesn't get' online. While Microsoft and Sony (and, you could argue, Sega) led the charge when it came to connecting console gamers to the World Wide Web, Nintendo was happy to sit back and focus on producing amazing games and innovative hardware – a strategy that arguably worked just fine during the DS and Wii eras, thank you very much.

That stance has changed with Switch, which – with the introduction of a
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– is now Nintendo's most 'online' piece of hardware. Even so, the company has stumbled a little along the way; not only was Switch Online embarrassingly late – the console has been available for over a year, lest we forget – but the company has fumbled some key points, one of the most egregious being the
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