Nintendo to introduce online subscription charges

Nintendo has revealed at GDC that its online service Nintendo WiFi Connection will soon grow with a subscription and payment-based ‘Pay & Play’ extension.

Nintendo’s Takashi Aoyama explained that players will use Wii points to pay for content and services online.

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