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The way forward for all consoles is the internet. Even though PC game sales are something like 1/10th of console game sales, they get lots of rightly deserved attention for 1st person shooters and their internet facilities. Even now the press is in a stir, because the new hot bot skin is Osama bin laden.
If consoles would hurry up and get connected, we could be playing PD online, Tekken tourament for real, and even online RPG's. Dreamcast took a brave step, but stumbled and paid the cruel price for failed orginality in the games market. Sometimes good idea's pay off (goldeneye) sometimes they dont, but the game companies should always try.
I personally can't wait until the PS2 goes online (later this year or early the next, but Sony are hideously unreliable so its a case of wait and see) and gets a keyboard and its own screen. It will be totally cool.
I'm not sure what nintendo's plan is, but i think that it will be equally cool. When consoles finally all get online, we will all be playing each other on quake 5, even if we all have pc's ps2's and gamecubes, and that is the first step to peace in the neverending console wars.
If consoles would hurry up and get connected, we could be playing PD online, Tekken tourament for real, and even online RPG's. Dreamcast took a brave step, but stumbled and paid the cruel price for failed orginality in the games market. Sometimes good idea's pay off (goldeneye) sometimes they dont, but the game companies should always try.
I personally can't wait until the PS2 goes online (later this year or early the next, but Sony are hideously unreliable so its a case of wait and see) and gets a keyboard and its own screen. It will be totally cool.
I'm not sure what nintendo's plan is, but i think that it will be equally cool. When consoles finally all get online, we will all be playing each other on quake 5, even if we all have pc's ps2's and gamecubes, and that is the first step to peace in the neverending console wars.
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VenomByte wrote:
> What I've always wondered, is this:
Why are Nintendo, masters of innovation,
> sitting on the back seat with regards to online gaming?
I remember reading
> that they said they were doing fine as it is, and had no need to.
Not very
> ambitious, is it? Doesn't sound like the industry trendsetters paving the way
> for the future, does it?
I couldn't agree more.
Apparently, "Nintendo gamers prefer to play local people and just want four player games so Nintendo will only have local networks for this".
It was a bit of a stupid servey.
Ofcourse Nintendo players prefer 4 player games with local people because at the moment it's the only option they have!!
If they'd asked Snes players then they would've been told then no one really cares about 4 player games.
Then would we have Goldeneye and Mario Kart?
Nintendo need to move forward with a link cable (2 TV's, 2 Gamecubes + 8 players takes gaming to a new dimension) and broadband internet (that means being able to play anyone in the world at the click of a button).
Perhaps we're wrong and Nintendo are just down-hyping the situation.
> What I've always wondered, is this:
Why are Nintendo, masters of innovation,
> sitting on the back seat with regards to online gaming?
I remember reading
> that they said they were doing fine as it is, and had no need to.
Not very
> ambitious, is it? Doesn't sound like the industry trendsetters paving the way
> for the future, does it?
I couldn't agree more.
Apparently, "Nintendo gamers prefer to play local people and just want four player games so Nintendo will only have local networks for this".
It was a bit of a stupid servey.
Ofcourse Nintendo players prefer 4 player games with local people because at the moment it's the only option they have!!
If they'd asked Snes players then they would've been told then no one really cares about 4 player games.
Then would we have Goldeneye and Mario Kart?
Nintendo need to move forward with a link cable (2 TV's, 2 Gamecubes + 8 players takes gaming to a new dimension) and broadband internet (that means being able to play anyone in the world at the click of a button).
Perhaps we're wrong and Nintendo are just down-hyping the situation.
I dissagree a-man i think microsoft will get the on-line console games up and running where the dreamcast left off remember the experience microsoft already have with the internet, and nintendi wasent even sure if they were gonna include online games anyway, i dont think it was annouce they would untill sega started psov2 on the GC!!
Nintendo should be the people to get this right but I do not think that the world is prepared for the amount of traffic that would be broadcast for console internet games. The ideas are always there. Of course, you can do almost anything over the internet these days. For now, I suggest you stick with the PC guys who have tried out what works and what doesn't. We can judge the console battle when it actually exists.
1/10th of the sales? You have to be jokin man!
its made by sega.
Yes, but that's hardly a Nintendo game. It's a game that was successful on another platform and just happens to be coming to GC.
VenomByte wrote:
> What I've always wondered, is this:
Why are Nintendo, masters of innovation,
> sitting on the back seat with regards to online gaming?
I remember reading
> that they said they were doing fine as it is, and had no need to.
Not very
> ambitious, is it? Doesn't sound like the industry trendsetters paving the way
> for the future, does it?
ah
phantasy star online for GC
GC will have modem and broadband adapters that fit under neatith it.
Sorry bout spellin
> What I've always wondered, is this:
Why are Nintendo, masters of innovation,
> sitting on the back seat with regards to online gaming?
I remember reading
> that they said they were doing fine as it is, and had no need to.
Not very
> ambitious, is it? Doesn't sound like the industry trendsetters paving the way
> for the future, does it?
ah
phantasy star online for GC
GC will have modem and broadband adapters that fit under neatith it.
Sorry bout spellin
well all of the console makers are being conservative, as they are all scared that they will end up like sega. It is a bit wussy but what are you gonna do?
What I've always wondered, is this:
Why are Nintendo, masters of innovation, sitting on the back seat with regards to online gaming?
I remember reading that they said they were doing fine as it is, and had no need to.
Not very ambitious, is it? Doesn't sound like the industry trendsetters paving the way for the future, does it?
Why are Nintendo, masters of innovation, sitting on the back seat with regards to online gaming?
I remember reading that they said they were doing fine as it is, and had no need to.
Not very ambitious, is it? Doesn't sound like the industry trendsetters paving the way for the future, does it?
The way forward for all consoles is the internet. Even though PC game sales are something like 1/10th of console game sales, they get lots of rightly deserved attention for 1st person shooters and their internet facilities. Even now the press is in a stir, because the new hot bot skin is Osama bin laden.
If consoles would hurry up and get connected, we could be playing PD online, Tekken tourament for real, and even online RPG's. Dreamcast took a brave step, but stumbled and paid the cruel price for failed orginality in the games market. Sometimes good idea's pay off (goldeneye) sometimes they dont, but the game companies should always try.
I personally can't wait until the PS2 goes online (later this year or early the next, but Sony are hideously unreliable so its a case of wait and see) and gets a keyboard and its own screen. It will be totally cool.
I'm not sure what nintendo's plan is, but i think that it will be equally cool. When consoles finally all get online, we will all be playing each other on quake 5, even if we all have pc's ps2's and gamecubes, and that is the first step to peace in the neverending console wars.
If consoles would hurry up and get connected, we could be playing PD online, Tekken tourament for real, and even online RPG's. Dreamcast took a brave step, but stumbled and paid the cruel price for failed orginality in the games market. Sometimes good idea's pay off (goldeneye) sometimes they dont, but the game companies should always try.
I personally can't wait until the PS2 goes online (later this year or early the next, but Sony are hideously unreliable so its a case of wait and see) and gets a keyboard and its own screen. It will be totally cool.
I'm not sure what nintendo's plan is, but i think that it will be equally cool. When consoles finally all get online, we will all be playing each other on quake 5, even if we all have pc's ps2's and gamecubes, and that is the first step to peace in the neverending console wars.
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