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The Nintendo Gameboy Advanced has stunned us with its excellent multiplayer options particularly in games such as Mario Kart Advanced and F-zero Advanced. You can now battle with up to four chums but what is most interesting, is that with most Gameboy Advanced games you can play multiplayer with your mates only using one game!
This idea of Nintendo’s is an excellent one and it gives me an idea. Internet gaming is to appear in most next generation consoles and gaming with about 20 people you have never met before will be possible. But how cool would it be if all 20 people could play, lets say Quake 3 but only one of them actually owns the game! Someone could load the required areas, weapons, characters etc… onto the web and we could play it even if we don’t have it. Of course not all of the game will be accessible only the multiplayer areas and even then only certain parts of it can be played making it a bit like an online demo.
Developers shouldn’t mind, as it is an excellent form of advertisement as one person owning the game could persuade another 19 to get it!
You may remember I have already discussed the idea of 3rd party developers like Sega making a game for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, and making it possible for all 3 consoles to battle against each other using that game. This would make the war zone that is the gaming community a lot more peaceful. But despite this I believed that there is no way a Sony game could be played over the Internet using a Gamecube, as Sony wouldn’t make games for their rivals.
But what if Nintendo and Sony made a game possible to use a different control system to suit their rival’s controllers and play that game across the Internet using different consoles. For example lets say the next Perfect Dark game can use the Internet, it also has a control option to suit the Playstation’s controller. A Gamecube owner could load up a multiplayer game on to the Internet and a Playstation owner could play it.
But why would Nintendo and Sony do this? Well the opportunity for Sony to persuade Nintendo fans to buy a PS2 and Nintendo to persuade Sony fans to buy a Gamecube is an opportunity both sides would be keen to do so although this idea may be farfetched it is possible.
If something like this happens then the future of gaming could be very bright indeed!
Here’s to the future
Dringo
This idea of Nintendo’s is an excellent one and it gives me an idea. Internet gaming is to appear in most next generation consoles and gaming with about 20 people you have never met before will be possible. But how cool would it be if all 20 people could play, lets say Quake 3 but only one of them actually owns the game! Someone could load the required areas, weapons, characters etc… onto the web and we could play it even if we don’t have it. Of course not all of the game will be accessible only the multiplayer areas and even then only certain parts of it can be played making it a bit like an online demo.
Developers shouldn’t mind, as it is an excellent form of advertisement as one person owning the game could persuade another 19 to get it!
You may remember I have already discussed the idea of 3rd party developers like Sega making a game for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, and making it possible for all 3 consoles to battle against each other using that game. This would make the war zone that is the gaming community a lot more peaceful. But despite this I believed that there is no way a Sony game could be played over the Internet using a Gamecube, as Sony wouldn’t make games for their rivals.
But what if Nintendo and Sony made a game possible to use a different control system to suit their rival’s controllers and play that game across the Internet using different consoles. For example lets say the next Perfect Dark game can use the Internet, it also has a control option to suit the Playstation’s controller. A Gamecube owner could load up a multiplayer game on to the Internet and a Playstation owner could play it.
But why would Nintendo and Sony do this? Well the opportunity for Sony to persuade Nintendo fans to buy a PS2 and Nintendo to persuade Sony fans to buy a Gamecube is an opportunity both sides would be keen to do so although this idea may be farfetched it is possible.
If something like this happens then the future of gaming could be very bright indeed!
Here’s to the future
Dringo
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I never really got into handheld multiplayer gaming much. In this case, it still requires several GBA's, even if only one cartridge is present. My point of view has always tended towards the argument that if you have that many people in one room, why not play multiplayer on a console?
Then again, that owuld suggest not buying a GBA in the first place, and anything suggesting that plainly isn't a good argument.
I will admit, there's something a bit *special* about playing on a handheld as opposed to a console. Maybe it's something to do with the freedom, the simplicity. You can play it anywhere, anywhen. No loose wires, nothing.
I think I'm going to have to get one... ;)
Then again, that owuld suggest not buying a GBA in the first place, and anything suggesting that plainly isn't a good argument.
I will admit, there's something a bit *special* about playing on a handheld as opposed to a console. Maybe it's something to do with the freedom, the simplicity. You can play it anywhere, anywhen. No loose wires, nothing.
I think I'm going to have to get one... ;)
The Nintendo Gameboy Advanced has stunned us with its excellent multiplayer options particularly in games such as Mario Kart Advanced and F-zero Advanced. You can now battle with up to four chums but what is most interesting, is that with most Gameboy Advanced games you can play multiplayer with your mates only using one game!
This idea of Nintendo’s is an excellent one and it gives me an idea. Internet gaming is to appear in most next generation consoles and gaming with about 20 people you have never met before will be possible. But how cool would it be if all 20 people could play, lets say Quake 3 but only one of them actually owns the game! Someone could load the required areas, weapons, characters etc… onto the web and we could play it even if we don’t have it. Of course not all of the game will be accessible only the multiplayer areas and even then only certain parts of it can be played making it a bit like an online demo.
Developers shouldn’t mind, as it is an excellent form of advertisement as one person owning the game could persuade another 19 to get it!
You may remember I have already discussed the idea of 3rd party developers like Sega making a game for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, and making it possible for all 3 consoles to battle against each other using that game. This would make the war zone that is the gaming community a lot more peaceful. But despite this I believed that there is no way a Sony game could be played over the Internet using a Gamecube, as Sony wouldn’t make games for their rivals.
But what if Nintendo and Sony made a game possible to use a different control system to suit their rival’s controllers and play that game across the Internet using different consoles. For example lets say the next Perfect Dark game can use the Internet, it also has a control option to suit the Playstation’s controller. A Gamecube owner could load up a multiplayer game on to the Internet and a Playstation owner could play it.
But why would Nintendo and Sony do this? Well the opportunity for Sony to persuade Nintendo fans to buy a PS2 and Nintendo to persuade Sony fans to buy a Gamecube is an opportunity both sides would be keen to do so although this idea may be farfetched it is possible.
If something like this happens then the future of gaming could be very bright indeed!
Here’s to the future
Dringo
This idea of Nintendo’s is an excellent one and it gives me an idea. Internet gaming is to appear in most next generation consoles and gaming with about 20 people you have never met before will be possible. But how cool would it be if all 20 people could play, lets say Quake 3 but only one of them actually owns the game! Someone could load the required areas, weapons, characters etc… onto the web and we could play it even if we don’t have it. Of course not all of the game will be accessible only the multiplayer areas and even then only certain parts of it can be played making it a bit like an online demo.
Developers shouldn’t mind, as it is an excellent form of advertisement as one person owning the game could persuade another 19 to get it!
You may remember I have already discussed the idea of 3rd party developers like Sega making a game for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, and making it possible for all 3 consoles to battle against each other using that game. This would make the war zone that is the gaming community a lot more peaceful. But despite this I believed that there is no way a Sony game could be played over the Internet using a Gamecube, as Sony wouldn’t make games for their rivals.
But what if Nintendo and Sony made a game possible to use a different control system to suit their rival’s controllers and play that game across the Internet using different consoles. For example lets say the next Perfect Dark game can use the Internet, it also has a control option to suit the Playstation’s controller. A Gamecube owner could load up a multiplayer game on to the Internet and a Playstation owner could play it.
But why would Nintendo and Sony do this? Well the opportunity for Sony to persuade Nintendo fans to buy a PS2 and Nintendo to persuade Sony fans to buy a Gamecube is an opportunity both sides would be keen to do so although this idea may be farfetched it is possible.
If something like this happens then the future of gaming could be very bright indeed!
Here’s to the future
Dringo
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