Tetris DS! ... !!!

[A Black Falcon]

But... but... DJ, Japanese people don't play most of those games, so why should they care? Or at least that seems to be their opinion... but yeah, it is really stupid, and pathetic... Nintendo doesn't play Western online games, and doesn't look at how they work, and their Western employees who might can't convince them that they should, so they make these moronic crippled online networks for their games and the American people are left trying to defend their idiocy... they manage to come up with lines that don't sound like total lies, but I'm sure that inside, Reggie knows how bad DS online is... ONLINE GAMING IS ABOUT FORMING A COMMUNITY WITHIN A GAME. Online CONSOLE gaming is, in addition, about community within the network that the games all run on -- Xbox Live (PS2 online, with each game separate, is poor too, though at least taht has chat ingame...), like within each separate PC gaming online network (Gamespy Arcade, or an ingame Gamespy server browser of mostly user servers (FPSes), or MSN Gaming Zone, or Battle.Net, or Westwood Online, or Ubi.com, whatever your game is running on) Nintendo, through bad decisions, bad design, and paranoia, completely misses this fact and makes an online network with no community and no way for there to ever be a community. Good job. :clap:

I thought that when Nintendo finally went online, it'd be a good thing and they'd start to actually catch up to the world... but no, instead they did THIS...

They seem too isolated, that's what I'm saying. Nintendo should pay as much attention to games made by a company like Blizzard as they do to a company like Square-Enix, and Square-Enix should really look at both Bethesda AND Blizzard. And, Tecmo needs to take a look at Ubisoft. I'm not saying some American game companies aren't guilty of this sort of blind eye to foreign games, but it doesn't seem as prevalant an attitude here. At least Konami has their head in the game. Hideo seems fully aware of the existance of Sam Fisher.

This is not always true, though... FFXI, for instance, is a pretty traditional Western-style PC MMORPG... and FFXII, while not online, bases its battle system off of FFXI's.