4th February 2007, 9:59 AM
I was just looking at the release lists for Wii, all the games rumored or stated to have online modes are listed as either TBA or first quarter 2007. Nothing concrete, so that tells me that the network is about to go live with a myriad of games at once.
Expect Pokemon to be the first of them all, with MKWii, BWii, the ass load of Konami games about to hit and most likely, a fps from someone. I'm thinking either Retro's MP3 or something from the team that made Geist who's been hard at work for a while now. If it's MP3 it better be more substantial than the Echoes multiplayer. I'm sure Nintendo would suck on just about anything for a FPS IP with multiplayer that's regarded as the next gen Goldeneye/PD. But even the next gen PD and Goldeneye didnt live up to that hype.
The fat topper to the whole equasion will be Brawl. It could be in the middle of the releases or it could be the end of the year blow out - the Christmas must have (just like Melee), which is probably more likely.
So all in all, i'm thinking early March for Nintendo to go hot and fire up the servers. I think alot of the wait has to do with Nintendo's first party LAN adapter getting on store shelves. Again March should be magic time there too.
Expect Pokemon to be the first of them all, with MKWii, BWii, the ass load of Konami games about to hit and most likely, a fps from someone. I'm thinking either Retro's MP3 or something from the team that made Geist who's been hard at work for a while now. If it's MP3 it better be more substantial than the Echoes multiplayer. I'm sure Nintendo would suck on just about anything for a FPS IP with multiplayer that's regarded as the next gen Goldeneye/PD. But even the next gen PD and Goldeneye didnt live up to that hype.
The fat topper to the whole equasion will be Brawl. It could be in the middle of the releases or it could be the end of the year blow out - the Christmas must have (just like Melee), which is probably more likely.
So all in all, i'm thinking early March for Nintendo to go hot and fire up the servers. I think alot of the wait has to do with Nintendo's first party LAN adapter getting on store shelves. Again March should be magic time there too.