Now that's an aggressive statement.

Hopefully they back it up all the way, as Microsoft isn't exactly being a weak competitor in the US.

It's about time. I hope this means more information on how online Wii games are going to work will start leaking soon.

Has anyone confirmed if Pokémon Battle Revolution's 12-digit Friend Code was actually to allow it to battle against DS players with Pokémon Diamond/Pearl via Wi-Fi?

I still hope that was the case and that not every game will require a separate code.

But at least developers are getting the dev kits now. Especially if the "separate Friend Code" thing was never meant to be for all games, there's no excuse now!

SORRY, TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, GIVE UP NOW.

Weren't the exact words saying that the online kits had been "seeded"?!?!?

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Well yeah, 98% of online kits went to oh.... POKEMON DEVELOPERS

This is true...does this include third party developers, or just those developers working on Nintendo-published titles?

Yeah, no one of importance.

Better late than never but what was with the delay? Now STARTING to get in the hands of developers? Come on.

As cool as it is to see Reggie call the Xbox 360 out I think the more interesting fact is that he didn't mention Sony, like the PS3 is such a joke that it isn't even in the equation. Though I guess he could be talking from the assumption of MS being number two and Nintendo's first goal is to pass them. But Sony's only number one if you count the PS2 as a supported console and everyone knows old consoles don't count. MS is currently number one and Nintendo is number two.

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Better late than never but what was with the delay? Now STARTING to get in the hands of developers? Come on.

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about time, I hope MK: Armagedon is delayed for online play, I'm shure everyone would understand if they did.

It'd be awsome if in a couple of months we start getting patches to make current games online, imagin online multiplayer for raymman, excite truck or even Red Steel (say what you will about it, people like it).

Then again I don't know how "patches" work so don't flame me if what I said was rediculus.

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Are you stupid or something.....

You can't make a game that has already come out give it a "patch" and make it an online game.

First of all, if it isn't ment to go online in the first place....how can you go online and download a "patch" to allow online play

Second, if you are talking about a downloaded patch, there is not enough room on the Flash memory to hold all the additional data that is needed

Here's what I want to know: Is Reggie talking worldwide? Could he actually be referring North America? After all, the Wii has already surpassed the 360 in Japan. Is it possible they expect to outsell the 360 in North America in this year alone?

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Here's what I want to know: Is Reggie talking worldwide? Could he actually be referring North America? After all, the Wii has already surpassed the 360 in Japan. Is it possible they expect to outsell the 360 in North America in this year alone?

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Are you stupid or something.....

You can't make a game that has already come out give it a "patch" and make it an online game.

First of all, if it isn't ment to go online in the first place....how can you go online and download a "patch" to allow online play

Second, if you are talking about a downloaded patch, there is not enough room on the Flash memory to hold all the additional data that is needed

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Dang, so much for asking not to be flamed.

The Wii itself could apply some sort of patch to the game. The game doesn't necessarily have to built-in support for it. Though the term "wrapper" is probably more appropriate because you can't really patch non-writeable media. It would sort of intercept certain calls.

Anyway, the patch idea is pretty unlikely and would be difficult for games not designed for it (or so I would imagine).

All I have to say is that Pokemon Battle Revolution better come out beside the newest in the series, I think we get them in March right? I know its mid year. Because I sure do NOT want to wait till Next year to get online games. Thats terrible. In fact its like NOA is trying to walk a tightrope. What is the most I can get away with without looking like I'm working for someone.

I have not been impressed with NoA's handling of the Wii.

Yay, good news. Hopefully third parties won't bastardize online play with friend codes, unless the Dev kits require it.

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Methinks the biggest problem is that the media the game is stored on is not rewritable. That is the biggest hold-up I can see on something like that. In effect a patch would be something that could tap into the game and use its assets but it would be its own individual thing in this case.

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are slated for an April Launch in America, so that's the earliest possible time PBR could come out... I personally anticipate a May or June release date for PBR.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Well it's good to see Nintendo confirming online kits have gone out to developers.

About Reggie talking smack, do he really think MS is going to roll over for Nintendo?

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Methinks the biggest problem is that the media the game is stored on is not rewritable. That is the biggest hold-up I can see on something like that. In effect a patch would be something that could tap into the game and use its assets but it would be its own individual thing in this case.

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You can't make a game that has already come out give it a "patch" and make it an online game.

First of all, if it isn't ment to go online in the first place....how can you go online and download a "patch" to allow online play

Second, if you are talking about a downloaded patch, there is not enough room on the Flash memory to hold all the additional data that is needed

The patch would be downloaded through some Wii channel of course and unless the patch replaces large parts of the game data a 2MB file would be enough.

"Are you stupid or something? You could make it so patches could be DLed to an SD Card. Is there really any reason to call people names because they may be wrong about something? Get over yourself."

Doubt they would
Only patch we have gotten from nintendo was in the medium of a disk (pokemon channel), much like xbox patches on demo disks that come with magazines
I dont see a time of them releasing patches on the net, as its just inviting people to hack into the patch

*edit: forgot the patch u could get at some events

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"Are you stupid or something? You could make it so patches could be DLed to an SD Card. Is there really any reason to call people names because they may be wrong about something? Get over yourself."

Doubt they would
Only patch we have gotten from nintendo was in the medium of a disk (pokemon channel), much like xbox patches on demo disks that come with magazines
I dont see a time of them releasing patches on the net, as its just inviting people to hack into the patch

*edit: forgot the patch u could get at some events

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It definately was uncalled for, personally I don't see why you couldn't have an "expansion" Pack esque patch that adds online either. But hey there are more programming inclined people than me here, maybe they can answer that, is it possible to add online to an already released game in a larger patch?

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It definately was uncalled for, personally I don't see why you couldn't have an "expansion" Pack esque patch that adds online either. But hey there are more programming inclined people than me here, maybe they can answer that, is it possible to add online to an already released game in a larger patch?

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Fine....I will go as far to say to it may have been a little much to call him stupid. Maybe saying his request was way too unlikely and there isn't a snowballs chance in hell it will happen.

Ok, so maybe the middleground we can agree on is the idea that this "patch" idea is never going to happen. So Maybe, just maybe.....
can we agree the "Idea" is stupid, and not the person?

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Fine....I will go as far to say to it may have been a little much to call him stupid. Maybe saying his request was way too unlikely and there isn't a snowballs chance in hell it will happen.

Ok, so maybe the middleground we can agree on is the idea that this "patch" idea is never going to happen. So Maybe, just maybe.....
can we agree the "Idea" is stupid, and not the person?

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Agreed

It looks like this conflict has been resolved already, but remember in the future to attack the argument and not the person. Personal attacks are against the forum rules.