24th March 2006, 4:01 PM
That's harsher than my opinion, but only because I see they only really need to do a few things to fix it. I'll say this, most XBox Live games, these days, don't have a "select from current games" menu any more. This was to prevent the infamous issues with entering a room only to be instantly kicked by the person owning it. However, they DO do the rest of the things Nintendo doesn't do and so an online community can easily still exist. Since Halo 2, online games have only used random matchmaking rather than room select, but there's also the easy ability to make a custom room and invite people, who themselves will invite people, and so on. It's pretty easy to make an online community that way so so long as people can invite everyone they fight to their friends list.
"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)