20th April 2003, 6:06 PM
Gah, what's wrong with you?! This is the same exact stance that Nintendo is taking and it's only hurting them.
Nintendo can't just sit on their asses and do nothing while the competition runs right past them! Whether or not Nintendo would turn a profit from the online model itself is not important!! They will sell more consoles if they aggresively push online gaming, and they will sell more games, especially third-party games which sell terribly on the Gamecube. Who the hell is going to want to get Madden for the Gamecube if the X-Box and PS2 versions are online? Believe it or not, Nintendo is directly competiting with Sony and Microsoft, and by refusing to do anything about online gaming is extremely stupid of them. If they do it right then there is no way for them to lose money from this. Only good can come from it, unless they're just completely incompetent.
Nintendo can't just sit on their asses and do nothing while the competition runs right past them! Whether or not Nintendo would turn a profit from the online model itself is not important!! They will sell more consoles if they aggresively push online gaming, and they will sell more games, especially third-party games which sell terribly on the Gamecube. Who the hell is going to want to get Madden for the Gamecube if the X-Box and PS2 versions are online? Believe it or not, Nintendo is directly competiting with Sony and Microsoft, and by refusing to do anything about online gaming is extremely stupid of them. If they do it right then there is no way for them to lose money from this. Only good can come from it, unless they're just completely incompetent.