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mrbojangos:
and this means... nintendo is into wireless networking? or am i missing something

Endo:
What it means is, you might be able to LAN your Gamecubes on a standard without interferance. I believe I remember hearing the technology is viable up to a mile or two. So you could quite possibly LAN with a friend in a different house. All the talk about the difficulty of moving TVs around (i.e entertainment setups with 27" or whatnot) would be null and void, not necessary. Of course, what's the fun in a LAN type arrangement if you can't victory dance and taunt in the same room as your opponent?

Azule:
F-Zero, with 30 real players............ This seems like a job for the arcade version.....that's be cool. Probably have to be done in a traveling tour of some sort.

nonjagged:
Hopefully, GameSpy will create a tunnelling software like they did for the Xbox so that these networkable games will be playable over the Internet.

Both Gamespy and a South Asian company have had official GCN online/lan tools available for developers to use the past 6 months.
Hopefully some of the real 3rd party supporting developers use the tools and make LAN or Online gaming an option because N64 was the epitome of 4 player splitscreen but this Nintendo platform should move on and support fullscreen/LCD LAN gaming.
I truly beleive all it needs is a handful of AAA quality Nintendo 1st / 2nd party games that take advantage of LAN/Networking/Online gaming and you will see Nintendo breakaway with huge sales figures.

As for Live Voice being mandatory, I dont believe it should be because I find it annoyingly monotonous when you get some gamers with irritating quirks and what about other gamers that try to intentionally distract you with Voice tactics in a cheating way.

Personally for me typing text line communication is more appealing especially when the language you type in is 733t.

Networking GCN with quality game experiences could actually double its current worldwide sales quicker than it could ever.

RickPowers:

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As for Live Voice being mandatory, I dont believe it should be because I find it annoyingly monotonous when you get some gamers with irritating quirks and what about other gamers that try to intentionally distract you with Voice tactics in a cheating way.

Personally for me typing text line communication is more appealing especially when the language you type in is 733t.
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You can ignore the morons. But quit frankly, I'd rather have voice than not, now that I've used it. I'm a fast typer, but it still requires you to effectively STOP PLAYING, while you respond. Same with on-screen keyboards or voice input ... you have to stop playing to enter a command. With voice, the gaming never stops. Plus, there's emotion and nuance that comes across with voice that you just don't get with text.

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