[GDC] Revolution info! DS online info! Nintendo is going online, kids!

[Smoke]

MMO's and the like will of course have a fee. Actually I wouldn't mind an optional premium service in addition to the free one. Something like Xbox Live.

[OB1]

Sony's online games are also free. With a few exceptions, just like on the PC (MMOs).

[A Black Falcon]

The thing about Gamespy is the lack of community -- Gamespy breaks it into many user-created servers, without some 'community' space (like the chatroom part of Battle.net)... sure, the B.Net chatrooms are full of idiots and adbots. But it's also a space to meet with people you know outside of games.

[N_A]

Well with the DS and pictochat, there might a potential for Nintendo to run and IRC channel for community. Besides, all these match making services run on some kind of IRC type protocol anyways, so its all possible to build community for Nintendo and still be free.

[Great Rumbler]

But it's also a space to meet with people you know outside of games.

That's what Tendo City is for.

[A Black Falcon]

True, they could do something... they should. I've heard PS2 online games don't have a very good community system, though, while X-Box has a very good one... I was just hoping Nintendo community would be closer to B.Net than Gamespy (the PC matchmaking server-finder built into games, not Gamespy Arcade (the service with chatrooms, gamerooms, etc)).

[Smoke]

Just because Gamespy is handling it doesn't mean it will be exactly like Gamespy on PC. I'm sure Nintendo has their own list of features they want implemented.

Also this makes this post finally true. Sorta.

[Great Rumbler]

Also this makes this post finally true. Sorta.

Huh.

[A Black Falcon]

Web.archive.org, nice site... though it's always frusterating when they don't have the site (or the information on some site) that you want, when it's a site gone from the net now... (like the sites it doesn't have at all because they requested to not be on it)

[Smoke]

Yeah it sucks that some sites don't let them archive them. But what is there is interesting. Like this and this.

[A Black Falcon]

Huh... N64.com, IGN talks about it sometimes but I don't know if I went there back when that's what it was...

[OB1]

Hahaha, poor Mapel Girl. No one listened to her.

[Smoke]

If only we had listened to Mapel Girl instead of calling her a lesbian.

[Great Rumbler]

When will we ever learn?!

*can't wait to play DS online*

[OB1]

*can't wait to call Mapel Girl a lesbian*

[N_A]

The only question I do have is how the heck do you go about setting up the connection to a hotspot anyways. The hardware in the Nintendo DS seems to only have automatic connection via AdHoc connection as opposed to WiFi infrastructure connections in which you have to enter an SSID and a WEP password. I haven't had a chance to connect my DS to another DS to start and the instruction manual makes no mention of how to connect to hotspots.

[OB1]

Well that's because Nintendo only recently announced that they were going to do this.

Actually, Reggie basically announced it last E3, but then Nintendo said nothing about it until the GDC.

[A Black Falcon]

I guess they can put something on the game card to get it to connect to hotspots instead of other DSes...

[Great Rumbler]

That likely what they'll do. Probably it'll be something that tells existing hardware to access the wireless network.