Nintendo sucks

[A Black Falcon]

Uh, Hudson, you make no sense.

First, online games make a direct impact on sales. When you add an online network sales increase. It is a fact... remember how after X-Box Live came out sales immediately increased, even in Japan? I know we had threads about that here... and that ignores the massive impact that online games have had on the PC over the last 5 or so years...

Second, online games have a huge impact on future potential game sales. People will choose online versions of a game over non online versions if they have the choice. I'll bet X-Box versions of Capcom vs SNK 2 and Star Wars: Clone Wars sold best... well maybe not more than the PS2 because of the massively larger userbase, but proportionally best... and certainly better than the Cube... since they have Live in them. And the other versions don't.

Third, it helps their public image significantly. It greatly hurts Nintendo to have a huge segment of gamers saying that because they lack online multiplay Nintendo is greatly deficient. That hurts Nintendo's image along with things like how their stuff is "kiddy" styled and how their advertising is abysmal.

Trying to say that because X-Box has games on Live Nintendo's wouldn't be that popular is stupid. As he said, who WOULDN'T want to play Mario Kart Online???

There would be a clear and immediate jump in sales and more potential future sales as other gamers buy the online versions of GC games instead of going to the PS2 or X-Box for those games.

How Nintendo, and people like you, can't see this is bizarre and extremely stupid. As I've said before, the only people who could say that online gaming isn't a brilliant idea and Nintendo shouldn't do it are people who don't have much online gaming experience and don't understand the attraction...