29th April 2008, 6:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 29th April 2008, 6:34 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
lazyfatbum Wrote:...It should be just like Live! and completely free and Nintendo is full of shit for charging for updates and LOL friendcodes.
Live has it's issues, but the thing to note is there is absolutely nothing Nintendo has done that MS is not currently doing better, and there are a lot of things MS is doing that Nintendo isn't doing at all. That's a painful thing to say, but it's true. Well I guess there is one thing. MS makes it way too hard to transfer "rights" between systems. A lot easier with Nintendo right now. Aside from that though, even MS's online store is far easier to navigate, and since the basic page structure is a function of the internal software and not a fully downloaded page layout, it is MUCH faster on top of that.
I guess what I'm saying is there's work to be done in all departments. That said, Nintendo's charging for updates? Not last I checked, namely because they don't have a system in place TO update their games! BAZIIIING! No seriously, there was no reason the glitch in TP couldn't be patched except that they don't have any code in place to allow for that possibility.
As for friend codes, when it gets right down to it a friend code is just a more awkward nickname and isn't that much worse than writing down a phone number (woah, memorizing phone numbers, we had it rough back then...). It's better with Mario Kart actually using the system code (though I'll note it's a locked "system code" as opposed to a portable universal code). I will ask if I'm automatically on your friend list or if I have to go into that Mario Kart channel and "refriend" you in the Mario Kart world just using the system code to get in tough. Again, an improvement, but there's a lot that can be done.
I want Nintendo to do something original, but they aren't doing any of that, so they should play catchup for now and later worry about doing the new.
There's hope of course. They do have enough in place to get it up to the level of the 360 with the right effort. That is, they have updating firmware, an online network, and the ability to pull up the OS during games.
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