29th March 2007, 1:08 PM
The very fact that we had to create a thread full of friend codes and constantly badger each other to play Mario Kart with merely a HOPE that maybe they would see the message while you were still online and willing to play speaks volumes on the work they need to do.
XBox Live is simply vastly superior. Nintendo has the games, and multiplayer Mario Kart is fun. However, even Nintendo knows how important an interface is. Consider just how much work they put into the user interface on the Wii alone (controller and system menu). Simply put, they just need to put that into the online network system should they eventually make a good one.
Beyond that, at least setting up the online connection is pretty easy, but really that's not something all that hard to begin with and the setup on other systems is fairly similar anyway.
XBox Live is simply vastly superior. Nintendo has the games, and multiplayer Mario Kart is fun. However, even Nintendo knows how important an interface is. Consider just how much work they put into the user interface on the Wii alone (controller and system menu). Simply put, they just need to put that into the online network system should they eventually make a good one.
Beyond that, at least setting up the online connection is pretty easy, but really that's not something all that hard to begin with and the setup on other systems is fairly similar anyway.
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