18th April 2003, 7:44 AM
XBL shouldn't be used as a standard for Nintendo Online... for the reason that Nintendo wouldn't limit it to just broadband. That would help a lot...
And how do you know that XBL hasn't made an impact or helped sales or anything? That sounds completely wrong...
Zelda was expected to help the Cube a lot. It did. A online network would do at least that because of what I said -- people avoiding the Cube, or who like Nintendo but not Nintendo's policies, would get one! I don't understand how it could possibly not have a huge impact... MORE PEOPLE WHO DONT HAVE CUBES WOULD BUY ONE FOR ONLINE GAMES THAN NON-ONLINE ONES! How can you possibly dispute that? Do you honesly think Mario Kart Offline and F-Zero Offline will sell as well as possible online versions would? Huh?
And look harder at those all-console games with XBL. You will notice the X-Box one is disproportionately high in almost every case...
And how do you know that XBL hasn't made an impact or helped sales or anything? That sounds completely wrong...
Zelda was expected to help the Cube a lot. It did. A online network would do at least that because of what I said -- people avoiding the Cube, or who like Nintendo but not Nintendo's policies, would get one! I don't understand how it could possibly not have a huge impact... MORE PEOPLE WHO DONT HAVE CUBES WOULD BUY ONE FOR ONLINE GAMES THAN NON-ONLINE ONES! How can you possibly dispute that? Do you honesly think Mario Kart Offline and F-Zero Offline will sell as well as possible online versions would? Huh?
And look harder at those all-console games with XBL. You will notice the X-Box one is disproportionately high in almost every case...