Late last year, Nintendo hosted a mysterious Switch Online playtest, and on Thursday, the company announced that it would be doing another test as part of the \u201cNintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program\u201d and that it will be opening applications soon. This second round will be a test of the \u201csame service\u201d as before.<\/p>\n
Last time, Nintendo asked participants not to share details about the playtest, but leaks appeared anyway<\/a> indicating that the test was for some kind of MMO-style game.<\/p>\n Applications for this next playtest will be open to users 18 or older with an active Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack as of Thursday at 6PM ET and with a Nintendo Account registered in Japan, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil, or Mexico. Users can apply as individuals or as a group of up to four people \u201cif everyone in the group meets the Application Qualifications,\u201d according to Nintendo.<\/p>\n You can prepare your application on Nintendo\u2019s website<\/a> from Friday, July 18th at 6PM ET to Monday, July 21st at 10:59AM ET.<\/p>\n You can actually submit your application from Monday, July 21st at 11AM ET to Wednesday, July 23rd at 10:59AM ET, though Nintendo says applications will be accepted \u201con a first-come, first-served basis.\u201d<\/p>\n Nintendo expects to accept \u201cas many as 40,000 participants worldwide,\u201d a big jump from the 10,000 participants allowed for the October test<\/a>. If you participated in that playtest, you can participate in this next one, too, Nintendo says<\/a>.<\/p>\n The playtest itself will run from Monday, July 28th at 9PM ET to Sunday, August 10th at 8:59PM ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late last year, Nintendo hosted a mysterious Switch Online playtest, and on Thursday, the company announced that it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,393,50,394,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114872830058835581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}