17th May 2005, 7:03 PM
I was neither surprised nor did it seems completely expected. What it was to me was confirmation. I had my doubts considering Nintendo's decades long history of how they deal with online (yes, they've been abandoning it since the Famicom :D). I just wanted some proof Nintendo really was going to stick with the online thing. I dreaded hearing "Super Smash Bros coming to Revolution, and online games to follow" because well, that's what they have DONE. Them stating right now that yes, this SPECIFIC title is online is the sort of thing that gives me great confidence I'll be struggling against GR's onslaught in a matter of THIS YEAR!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)