Nintendo sucks

[A Black Falcon]

Which ones? I see Ghost Recon...?

Capcom vs SNK 2 and Star Wars Clone Wars.

I think they would be a little better off.

But it's not "necessary".

I play Counter-Strike every night.

Then how can you POSSIBLY defend Nintnedo????

Well you're gonna need to provide links, because I don't see one.

Too lazy. :)

In the long-term, if Nintendo were to launch a major online plan on the level of Sony or Microsoft, they would struggle to reach 1.5 million by the end of the GCN's life-span. Particularly if they were to plan on making money through subscriptions.

Again, I think you're over-estimating just how many people would take the GameCube online. However, you do bring up a good point that if they were to put MAJOR effort into making an online infrastructure with major support, it could be successful (which I never disputed). However, this isn't "necessary", as I still doubt just how many NEW gamers would be attracted specifically by the online plan.

I guess the only way we could really make any sort of 'accurate' guess, would be to analyze and scrutinize Sony's and XBox's online sales.

True, it wouldn't be a massive success and suddenly put Nintendo well ahead in second.

But if Nintendo expects to have any hardcore gamers intrested in their next console, they HAVE TO START TRYING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE! Hardcore gamere aren't many in number, but buy lots of games... Nintendo ignores them at their own peril (because admittedly on consoles online isn't mainstream yet, unlike PC)...

And without online that will never happen, and they'll just continue to drive away the few hardcore fans they have left. Not a good idea.

Oh, online on all 3 consoles is probably the only way to try to push it into the mainstream, as well... and until its in the mainstream it won't be as popular and Nintendo will ignore it. Hmm... not a good circle there, I think...

And Mario Kart Online would do better than you think.