Why did Nintendo ditch Miiverse for the Switch?

>>384776592
I think because the value in it was outweighed by the cost. Maintaining the servers and moderating it would have burned more money than it was worth. Just dump it on twitter and let them deal with it.

>>384777508
This is my theory as well. Miiverse was important a generation or two ago when it was expected a console manufacturer would offer an online service and Nintendo didn't want to be seen as the odd one out.

Now that everyone has things like Twitter and Twitch to talk about games the "online services" (other from actual gaming) available on a console don't seem so important and aren't really selling points, making the cost of running Miiverse pretty much pure overhead for Nintendo right now. So naturally they're just not going to do it anymore.

Kinda sad, though. I like Miiverse.