25th August 2004, 8:43 PM
Quote:That makes sense to you and me, but not to Nintendo.
Huh? Um... okay... but that doesn't seem to agree with what you have been saying...
Good or bad, for each.
-X-Box Live's Cable/DSL Only policy.
-Charging for online play.
-A WiFi-only internet gaming system.
-A Cellphone only internet gaming system (see: N-Gage).
-Running a online network which loses money.
What Nintendo clearly seems to be saying is that they'll do internet gaming once they can at least break even off it, don't have to charge any money for people to use it (to not turn people off), and, I believe, can support all the major connection systems for whatever console they are putting it on. Right now that criteria isn't met for anything, so they have online for nothing. We of course think that this is a really stupid policy, but it's easy enough to see their rationalization, even if it seems to be obviously flawed once you consider sales and consumer satisfaction.
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