"Metroid Prime 2 however has multiplayer and it didn't hurt the single player game at all. Some devs can do it some can't."
Yeah, but that game's multiplayer was an afterthought and the amount of time devoted to it could've been sent to the real reason we played that game to begin with, the main adventure itself.
When are people gonna realize Nintendo is a GAME COMPANY. A GAME COMPANY! They are not Sony where they have an electronics division. They are not Microsoft who has the funds from their OS and wherever else right now to get money. Both of those companies are conglomerates with more assets than Nintendo probably ever had in the lifespan of the entire company. Yeah, Sony and Microsoft can throw money into online and lose some here and there, yeah some shareholders might not be too happy about it, but who cares? As long as something major doesn't go wrong anywhere else in the company they won't have much to worry about.
"People say "nintendo needs online for the DS" but don't seem to realize that online entails more than importing a netcode library and throwing a few packets at it. Online requires a server network that can handle the load. Those are EXPENSIVE. If DS online bombed Nintendo would be stuck with a set of costy servers eating money with very little return."
Precisely, and once again yeah Nintendo is a game company, rich or no. Right now console online gaming is still the endeavor of a minority of the gaming populace. Didn't we just hear not that long ago that X-Box live just broke a million? A million out of how many total owners? 12mil? 13mil? Once again, Microsoft can afford the blow of $2.4+ billion on it. Now if Nintendo were to do something similar (which btw is what most devs have gone on the record saying they would want them to do this), get approx the same count of online gamers out of total system owners, and lose the same amount of money off it, all I'll say is that the doom and gloom arguments you're seeing from the media now would be compliments compared to the armageddon that they'll probably start spewing then. Now also keep in mind that they want this to be as accessable to as many as possible, probably wanting to either make it extremely low cost or free. If after that we're still looking at a minority of gamers online, unless they have somekind of miracle solution that will probably screw them up in ways that will affect the rest of the company's operations. And the last thing I want to see is a compromise in game or hardware development because a few people couldn't live without their online Mario Kart.
"No, no. Online is the past. And it's a very unremarkable past at that. We don't just have it now, we've had it for years in a much better form than all the console fanboys are wetting their pants over..."
So true, and this alone is one of the things I personally don't like about the current online gaming situation on a console. Most console online games had died for me because after playing the initial multiplayer aspect of them to death, they got boring and there was really nothing else to really mess with. This might be my PC online gaming experience talking here, but the ability to mod was what kept most titles going long after you got tired of the original multiplayer games. People being able to make their own games within games. Tides of Blood in Warcraft 3 is an example of this as well as many other mods that have been done in various other games.
With that said, Nintendo WILL eventually go online, I don't have a single doubt about that. All the rumors about Square-Enix and the rumblings at IGN (yeah, I know...) all hint at it. Not to mention the fact they put 802.11b WiFi hardware and a jack for a headset on the system. I seriously doubt that they'll neglect it considering that everybody had to pay for that hardware, unlike with the GC modem and broadband adapters.
Topic: psp is online now wheres nintendos plan (Read 39243 times)
