Topic: Game Cube will have online gaming in 2003-2004?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

To take your GameCube online, happily place it in front of your keyboard when you surph da Net.  It'll be happy you took it online with you.

Hell, give it its own instant messenger account.

[Don'tHate742]

Sarcasm.....its great.

I forgot to explain why I actually wouldn't want online. People think that an online feature can be added instantly, well that's half true. You can add an online feature very quickly, but for sure it will lag horribly. To make a game online is a long procedure, you have to account for packet loss, slower ping times, and much more. If you don't account for those, you'll have something like Halo, if you've ever played it through a tunneling system. For that reason alone is why I want games NOT to be online, unless the game is strickly made for online. I would rather have a great multiplayer made quick (without the time wasted on online) and with a LAN feature (LAN is always always lag free so you can add it instantly and don't have to account for anything), than a game that comes out a year later that is by that time good/mediocre compared to others and has an online feature that you might have to pay for.

[BlkPaladin]

Not to mention sometimes you have to tone down the graphics.

[BlkPaladin]

Edit: Forgive me, this was a double post.

The extra development time is one of the reasons I believe we will see few if any original internet enabled games for the Gamecube. The only game on the horizon that has any chance of making it online is Animal Crossing which is doubtful because of the SD function they have in the works for the game.

[Strell]

People crack me up about the online thing.

You do realize it costs a few million just to set up a usable network, and then several million to keep it going?  That's not including employees to train and watch over it, software development, programming, tech support, and any other thousand things that go into online gaming.  

Sony might have a good online presence, but they are losing millions every year on it.  300K users isn't going to cut it, unless they charged 20 bucks a month.  Same thing with Xbox.  Their userbases seem high because they are the first consoles to go out on a limb online.  But I gaurantee you they are losing an insane amount of money on the deal.

Oh, and you highlight SOCOM as a good title?  Yea, beacuse we haven't had enough war themed FPS games around that you can play online lately.  Oh, and there certainly isn't voice support for them.  And they CERTAINLY don't focus on team-based tactics.

No, I've never heard of such a novel idea before in my LIFE!  Golly!  Sony sure is smart!  They didn't rip off 21093821093 games before them at all!  They came up with a totally new and original idea!  WOW!

As far as arguing Nintendo's online capabilities, Animal Crossing, F Zero, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Soul Calibur would probably cause me to die of happiness instantly.  You're whining about lag in Smash Bros when it doesn't even exist yet?  Smart argument.  "Kid" indeed.

There was talk of Zelda online for a while, and I dunno how that would pan out but it would certainly be interesting.  The new Zelda games would be perfect for this, but I wouldn't mind seeing a full on MMORPG.  Same with other titles - what would stop them from using GBA games in the online?  Advance Wars online perhaps?

I'm hearing a lot of fluff and not a lot of logic from some parts of this thread.

-Strell

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I want Beach Spikers Online.
Then my Pigtailed Princesses can play with the other girlies.

[Round Eye]

We will see online gaming on the Cube soon, Q4 or Q1 2004.  For the simple fact that Nintendo has to have an online system set up before the release of the new Cube.

Connectivity is a cute idea, but it will not sell consoles.