Let’s be real, Nintendo’s online service hasn’t always been the best. While it always works, yes no it has always been necessarily a completely stable experience in every game. While we won’t name any specific titles, you probably already know the ones that haven’t worked so well.
With that in mind, it looks like Nintendo’s online services are finally being updated with dataminer OatmealDome (via thomasnet_mc) detailing how Nintendo will replace its multiplayer server system, existing since the era of Wii U and 3DS. It does this by changing from ‘NEX’ to a newer system called ‘NPLN’.
The recent one Monster Hunter Rise apparently, the demo was the “first game” NPLN used and apparently it was a good way to test its pressure operation.
Nintendo Everything also explains how ‘NEX’ was originally created by a company called Quazal (then the technology was known as Rendez-Vous), Ubisoft bought them in 2010 and this continued with the Nintendo license and changed the name in ‘NEX’.
Nintendo has been carrying “NEX” for “about ten years,” but the technology itself is “about twenty years old” and the “Splatoon 2 version has an unused feature to check if it runs on Windows 98.”
So will this improve things? According to OatmealDome, probably not. The data examiner goes on to explain how Nintendo’s “main goal” in this case is to make the transition “as smooth as possible” to ensure users don’t even notice it.
“Once done, they can add new things or improve existing ones.”
If we hear updates on all of this, we’ll let you know.