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"Ninty cant be arsed to go online? Good."

The ever radiant Shelly Friend has said that Nintendo will not be showing any online titles at E3.

So Mario Kart aint online? Good. If I can play offline with reasonably intelligent bots then its better than some annoying idiot who types dumb messages to you while you're vainly trying to play with heavy lag and you're only playing as you forked out a huge amount to play online. Morons.

I am just laughing at the poor fools who have bought a modem expecting loads of AAA titles from Nintendo to have online support. hohoho. Keep shoddy PSO and any dull 3rd party squat that has some cheesy online features.

When Nintendo wants to it will go online. It is not stopping itself from going online.. it has the networks, the modems.. It seems its the only company to realise: that online may be the future, according to some.. but the future is not now.

more sells less fixed costs = cheaper factors of production

simple really..

Software developers will want to keep making new games and software to sell again and again, if everyone plays the same online game for months or even years the developers will have to constantly make patchs and maintain a server which is both costly to run and can slowdown if too much information passes through.

With single player games the Software developers deal with the development costs but when the game is released they can sell their product and move on to the next like it's always been.

But whether they are right to ignore online gaming or at least put less emphasis on it is a matter that will be resolved in the future...

Fair enough

I'd hope that they are respected by industry experts and video game fans alike for what they have done over the years. Sure, some people don't like them and they're entitled to their views, but they are (hopefully) an important player in directing the future of gaming and have done much greatness for the industry over the years.
Gamers like me, who have grown up with Nintendo through the highs and lows, love their games and respect them, even though they used to treat the Euro market like dirt ;S

Goatboy wrote:
> I understand that, but I dont see how they are "the most
> experienced and well respected".
>
> Respected by whom?

Ninty Fanboys ;-)

I understand that, but I dont see how they are "the most experienced and well respected".

Respected by whom?

Goatboy wrote:
> Pls provide reasons for saying this.
> I'd like to see how Nintendo are the most experienced and well
> respected games firm please.

They have been in the industry for a very long time, i.e since the birth of "modern" console gaming, and they have made many of the most critically acclaimed games from the last few decades, so are respected by games experts worldwide.

Totoro wrote:
> I think it's fairly safe to say that Nintendo are the most experienced
> and well respected games firm around, so if they choose not to be
> totally behind online gaming then there must be some credence to the
> whole "online gaming isn't all it's cracked up to be"
> sentiment.
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Pls provide reasons for saying this.
I'd like to see how Nintendo are the most experienced and well respected games firm please.

I think it's fairly safe to say that Nintendo are the most experienced and well respected games firm around, so if they choose not to be totally behind online gaming then there must be some credence to the whole "online gaming isn't all it's cracked up to be" sentiment.

The future of gaming: "go online...then download lots of patches for unfinised of bug-ridden games that we couldn't arsed to test because we don't need to anymore as you saps can just get the patches instead of us testing them." Yay, great future.