Viewing Thread:
"1 week"

only a week until the PAL Animal Crossing comes out. And on my birthday too! It surely is a sign!

Dringo wrote:
> Nintendo have always stated how they find online gaming doesn't get
> much money.
>
> They claim it is too complicated and not enough people use it to make
> it worthwhile.
>
> Nintendo are shown figures that prove them wrong and Nintendo state
> that they wouldn't want to offer so many charges to their online
> service and would wait until it can all be done cheaper or even free
> and online games sales themselves rake in the profit.
>
> Hence the reason the Cube hasn't gone online.
>
> I wouldn't imagine the DS is going to cost anything to play online.

I'd rather play online with my PC than a console with additional price JUST to play online plus there's more people actually playing and no don't go on about cheaters and all that bullcrap that only happens in CounterStrike mostly.

Suprised its actually £40 (in most places).

Nintendo have always stated how they find online gaming doesn't get much money.

They claim it is too complicated and not enough people use it to make it worthwhile.

Nintendo are shown figures that prove them wrong and Nintendo state that they wouldn't want to offer so many charges to their online service and would wait until it can all be done cheaper or even free and online games sales themselves rake in the profit.

Hence the reason the Cube hasn't gone online.

I wouldn't imagine the DS is going to cost anything to play online.

Microsoft have a monthly subscription fee as well as an annual one...they give a choice, obviously the annual one is more likely to keep you playing for atleast a year, so its cheaper (as they expect you to buy games for it)

Therefore, I'd assume Nintendo would use a similar system, or even go as far as making it free! Though that's just me hoping they'll take a gamble at something competetive.

ßulle†† wrote:

> A monthly subscription would be inevitable, although it would be a
> good concept.

Not neccesserally. Nintendo want online games to be incredibly affordable.

Dringo wrote:
> Anyone know if the DS edition is online?

Nothing has been said yet. Excepting PictoChat (which you now get as part of the DS anyway) Nintendo haven't really said about any online stuff.

The thing about makind AC online, is that it would most probably fall into the MMORPG category in that there is this huge world that everyone lives in.

A monthly subscription would be inevitable, although it would be a good concept.

Anyone know if the DS edition is online?

I think online would work perfectly like village sharing does ofline - except everyone can be in the village at the same time.
If you had about 5 people together in the same village the whole rivalry thing would get a billon times better - what with leaving little messages for people and cutting down their trees and redecorating their houses and so on.

Obviously you'd have to know the people to make the most of the sharing and so things don't go too far.

And they should get some other developers involved, so that if someone say, drops litter in your village, or chops down a lemon tree, you can officially go to war and wipe out all advesaries to become a city, rather than a village, then a country, and you can be a nice country, like Switzerland, or try and rule the world like the US.

It would be called Animal DominaCrossing