25% of the NS2's RAM is locked behind the subscription. (The Real Costs of Game #6)

I'm not sure if it's my friend who made the connection, but they let me know that 3Gigs out of 12Gigs of the NS2's RAM is dedicated to the GameChat feature which will be NSO exclusive after the trial period.

It kinda makes sense since they want to make sure the feature runs stable so they set aside some RAM for the feature. However, it still makes the system all the more expensive for little gain as someone who never uses NSO under almost all circumstances. If you spin this up, you can make a story with the title that you see here.

There is also another revaluation that I had after my friend mentioned the possibility that GameChat could be canceled for similar reasons to Miiverse. If the feature is bricked in only certain regions, developers will still need to develop games with 9Gig express memory. A even larger amount of people will have useless RAM that does almost nothing. Only if the service is bricked globally will the RAM be free for some other use or given to game developers.