19th April 2003, 12:58 AM
The guy has somewhat of a point though. If Nintendo were to start an online system, who would pay for it ? Nintendo ? That means all online games will get a price hike. Or us ? Not a whole lot of people like to pay to play. So I guess a happy medium between the 2 is where they need to go. A standard free gaming service, and a subscription premium service or something.
But I can somewhat understand why Nintendo is slow going into the online gaming. They've never done it before. While Sony has subsidiaries that have run online gaming networks, and MS runs their whole Zone.com and such, Nintendo's never done it and they need to figure it out. I'm sure they will, but they need to pick up the speed thats for sure.
On another note... now I see why WW was such a unchallenging game... plain idiots who complain about Mario Sunshine. Hell back in the days of 2D Mario, there were levels that were damned near impossible and that was the whole thrill of it all - the challenge. Nobody complained then, everyone bought Mario and loved it. Mario Sunshine had some pretty challenging parts to it, but still wasn't as a headache compared to some places in 2D Mario games.
Easy games are stupid... well obviously... and now it looks like Nintendo is going to make "gaming for retards" for the next few years. I wonder if they'll take complaints that game are too easy ?
But I can somewhat understand why Nintendo is slow going into the online gaming. They've never done it before. While Sony has subsidiaries that have run online gaming networks, and MS runs their whole Zone.com and such, Nintendo's never done it and they need to figure it out. I'm sure they will, but they need to pick up the speed thats for sure.
On another note... now I see why WW was such a unchallenging game... plain idiots who complain about Mario Sunshine. Hell back in the days of 2D Mario, there were levels that were damned near impossible and that was the whole thrill of it all - the challenge. Nobody complained then, everyone bought Mario and loved it. Mario Sunshine had some pretty challenging parts to it, but still wasn't as a headache compared to some places in 2D Mario games.
Easy games are stupid... well obviously... and now it looks like Nintendo is going to make "gaming for retards" for the next few years. I wonder if they'll take complaints that game are too easy ?