28th January 2006, 10:27 AM
You dont understand.
1.) The Rev is online out of the box, all Konami would have to do to is say pretty please and they could use Nintendo's network. Nintendo, as per usual, will probably push their capabilities on to Konami, trying to get them to include wifi play. It's a fair bet that almost every game released on Rev will be online in some form just because it's easy to do and it adds a selling point but also because Nintendo will be pushing it.
2.) Putting SH online wouldn't take that much work, especially if it's just a co-op feature or if each player starts in a completely different area of town and the goal is to find eachother and then work as a team to finish the area as per the same one player goals with more/harder enemies. Even throwing in the kind of Code Veronica FPS or RE4's Mercs style gameplay would take just a few weeks to code.
A.) When rumor goes nuts and millions of people start wanting the same thing that tells a company "Hey you can money here stupid." so at the VERY LEAST Konami is taking the events to heart and will be considering the possibilities. No company would ignore the chance at having a demographic before you even release a product, they could even port SH5 just to test the theory and see how it does in the Nintendo field. But the point is, it's now on their radar (SH team, Konami marketing, PR) when before it probably wasn't even considered. Now that they know the interest and market is there and ready, exploiting it would be priority one.
Has there be any official word from Konami over this whole thing?
1.) The Rev is online out of the box, all Konami would have to do to is say pretty please and they could use Nintendo's network. Nintendo, as per usual, will probably push their capabilities on to Konami, trying to get them to include wifi play. It's a fair bet that almost every game released on Rev will be online in some form just because it's easy to do and it adds a selling point but also because Nintendo will be pushing it.
2.) Putting SH online wouldn't take that much work, especially if it's just a co-op feature or if each player starts in a completely different area of town and the goal is to find eachother and then work as a team to finish the area as per the same one player goals with more/harder enemies. Even throwing in the kind of Code Veronica FPS or RE4's Mercs style gameplay would take just a few weeks to code.
A.) When rumor goes nuts and millions of people start wanting the same thing that tells a company "Hey you can money here stupid." so at the VERY LEAST Konami is taking the events to heart and will be considering the possibilities. No company would ignore the chance at having a demographic before you even release a product, they could even port SH5 just to test the theory and see how it does in the Nintendo field. But the point is, it's now on their radar (SH team, Konami marketing, PR) when before it probably wasn't even considered. Now that they know the interest and market is there and ready, exploiting it would be priority one.
Has there be any official word from Konami over this whole thing?