29th April 2008, 8:57 PM
Oh my flaking crust God DJ I was being sarcastic Jesus!
*reassuring nod that what was previously said is still valid*
My thinking is this. Nintendo is playing a lot of politics with the online world just as much if not more with the HD world. The Wii wasn't the right time to go HD and the market reflects that with a steadily climbing though still low install base of people capable of using the HD hardware. Nintendo even said flat out that the next Nintendo system will be HD but whether or not that's the fabled Wii2 with DVD playback (Bluray...?
) or the next wholly encompassing platform remains to be seen. But the online aspect is the same principal, I think. They are generating their own structure so that it becomes the top billing, trounces Live! and makes Nintendo a healthy profit. That takes years to accomplish. Everyone who owns a Wii and gets X game with online multiplayer will try it, atleast once. I think the ideas behind the friend codes, system codes and what not is to have a detailed listing of each and every user, coded by region as well, so that Nintendo knows how to market it.
Mind you, they dont want to grab that 20 percentile of online gamers, they want to make every gamer go online that owns a Wii. The same cant be said for every PS3 or 360 owners whose numbers are actually really surprising.
*reassuring nod that what was previously said is still valid*
My thinking is this. Nintendo is playing a lot of politics with the online world just as much if not more with the HD world. The Wii wasn't the right time to go HD and the market reflects that with a steadily climbing though still low install base of people capable of using the HD hardware. Nintendo even said flat out that the next Nintendo system will be HD but whether or not that's the fabled Wii2 with DVD playback (Bluray...?
) or the next wholly encompassing platform remains to be seen. But the online aspect is the same principal, I think. They are generating their own structure so that it becomes the top billing, trounces Live! and makes Nintendo a healthy profit. That takes years to accomplish. Everyone who owns a Wii and gets X game with online multiplayer will try it, atleast once. I think the ideas behind the friend codes, system codes and what not is to have a detailed listing of each and every user, coded by region as well, so that Nintendo knows how to market it.Mind you, they dont want to grab that 20 percentile of online gamers, they want to make every gamer go online that owns a Wii. The same cant be said for every PS3 or 360 owners whose numbers are actually really surprising.