22nd November 2005, 9:48 PM
Where did you get this information exactly?
But how well wifi is or is not doing beside, I have to say that while online in and of itself is great, Nintendo has a few things left to do. I'm hoping for a lot of the XBox Live feature sets to show up. That is, if I'm playing Animal Crossing, I want to be able to recieve invites from someone playing Metroid Hunters. That brings up another point, the ability to send invites. Further, the ability to send friend requests. I don't want to have to know someone in the real world just to befriend them online. If I find someone that's a good match, it would be nice to send a friend invite to them (Nintendo can of course just delete invites that haven't been responded to in some finite amount of time). Basically, I'm wanting all the great social options Live did. If Nintendo pulls that off, then really that's all I'll ever want. Mario Kart's voting system for determining the game's setup is pretty sweet. In a more involved game though, think Perfect Dark, that would be a bit much though, so the ability to vote in a "host" to decide all the intricate details would also be appreciated. And oh yes, communication. The touch screen will work if the servers just can't take voice chat. And also, let's update that firmware in the DS so the pictochat can be taken online to one's friends (is that stored in Mario Kart or on the DS itself, I'm hoping the latter due to concerns such as basically moving friends from game to game when the list gets huge).
Nintendo already has the rest down, from random game finding to, more specifically, finding a match against people of the same "skill" as I am ranked at (though that's always been a tricky thing, the odd thing is Nintendo is claiming they came up with it first, though Blizzard may argue otherwise, silly Japanese need to play more American games). As for the friend code rather than some "gamer tag", I actually prefer the friend code system so long as they add in the friend inviting features I've listed above. I basically just prefer it because people can have the same nick name online. The only issue is sharing it in public when far from your DS could be a pain. Well, that's why I always carry this little card... Well, I will when I decide to print and laminate one :D.
Take those things into consideration Nintendo, and you have yourself an online service that beats Live.
But how well wifi is or is not doing beside, I have to say that while online in and of itself is great, Nintendo has a few things left to do. I'm hoping for a lot of the XBox Live feature sets to show up. That is, if I'm playing Animal Crossing, I want to be able to recieve invites from someone playing Metroid Hunters. That brings up another point, the ability to send invites. Further, the ability to send friend requests. I don't want to have to know someone in the real world just to befriend them online. If I find someone that's a good match, it would be nice to send a friend invite to them (Nintendo can of course just delete invites that haven't been responded to in some finite amount of time). Basically, I'm wanting all the great social options Live did. If Nintendo pulls that off, then really that's all I'll ever want. Mario Kart's voting system for determining the game's setup is pretty sweet. In a more involved game though, think Perfect Dark, that would be a bit much though, so the ability to vote in a "host" to decide all the intricate details would also be appreciated. And oh yes, communication. The touch screen will work if the servers just can't take voice chat. And also, let's update that firmware in the DS so the pictochat can be taken online to one's friends (is that stored in Mario Kart or on the DS itself, I'm hoping the latter due to concerns such as basically moving friends from game to game when the list gets huge).
Nintendo already has the rest down, from random game finding to, more specifically, finding a match against people of the same "skill" as I am ranked at (though that's always been a tricky thing, the odd thing is Nintendo is claiming they came up with it first, though Blizzard may argue otherwise, silly Japanese need to play more American games). As for the friend code rather than some "gamer tag", I actually prefer the friend code system so long as they add in the friend inviting features I've listed above. I basically just prefer it because people can have the same nick name online. The only issue is sharing it in public when far from your DS could be a pain. Well, that's why I always carry this little card... Well, I will when I decide to print and laminate one :D.
Take those things into consideration Nintendo, and you have yourself an online service that beats Live.
"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)