Ouch. Hopefully this will change before the end of the year.

One day Nintendo will say “LETS PUT OUT A BUNCH OF NEW SHIT AND GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO DEVELOP FOR Wii!”

And put out some code, programs, etc. to the internet and big & small developers.

Hell, the next day you could hear an announcement for 10 online games, 100 original VC games, and announced features for developing games for online support.

And Nintendo will take a throne on online gaming…

*dreams*

lol sinnen

to continue on what Sinnen said…

And THEN a sexual molester will be able to contact your childs Wii, while driving.

@Neeks: I wonder if that isn’t 50% of the problem. After their work on the DS line, I think they have online down. But remember - this is Nintendo, and the 1st time you hear about “Child abducted after playing on the Wii!” their stock is going to tumble *hard*.

As far as the other half - I just don’t know. I’m really surprised they haven’t been giving Mii and online support to 3rd party devs to suck them right in - at this point, there’s really no excuse for it any more. I’m not a fan of online gaming (just because too many online gamers tend to be buttheads, and I don’t want to expose my children to misogynistic 12 year olds), but it’s something that has proved that *can* enhance online games (like “Tetris”).

As long as Smash Bros. Brawl is still online and makes it out this year I’ll orgasm regardless of the fact that Nintendo’s messing it up big time with the rest of their hardcore audience. It’ll be therapeutic to smash some strangers online, blissfully ignoring Nintendo’s apparent delibirate attempts at derailing their hype train.

I think if I was a bigtime developer, I would hack brawl and find out how to make online stuff.

Then I’d make it an easy to achieve, but masterly hidden easter egg so those stingy beta testers won’t find it. I’d then “leak” it onto the official Nintendo forums by someone’s 11-year old brother.

yeah.

Not surprised. Online gaming has never interested Nintendo. Every little step they’ve taken forward–the use of friend codes, little or no chat functionality and so on indicate that they are more mindful of sex predators then of delivering an integrated, full solution like Xbox Live. Oh well.

Was it ever confirmed for a fact that Smash Bros would have online? I think all the creator said was they might get around to it…but then that was an old interview.

Satoru Iwata announced Brawl would have online play at E3 2005. I realize that this was before the development of the game had even started, but Nintendo would seriously be dropping the ball if the game ships without online functionality.

First of all, I would like a more reliable source before taking to heart what was said there.

“No online party? “Nintendo is still not letting Wii third-party publishers include online capabilities in their games and it doesn’t look like they will during 2007.”

Note third-party. If I recall, Smash Brothers would be a second party game.

If any of this is true, I’ll guess that it could mean that Nintendo is still tinkering with their online capabilities.

There was less talk of it then, though the Wifi for the DS didn’t surface until around about a year after the initial release.

I’d rather wait than have a buggy and inconvenient experience.

Anyone remember all of the error codes in Hunters?

since Nintendo is making Opera patch everything in the browser TWICE, the online part of the Wii might still be an probable backdoor for hacking the store since Nintendo seems to really don’t want people hacking the Store, and aren’t blocking the hardware.

Nintendo seem hell bent on fucking their online opportunities. It’s like they see channels & VC going well, so to hell with making the Wii Connect 24 a living, breathing, lively community, just give people a few crappy things every now and then.

Wii Connect was ment to be a vibrant, always on, always connected vibe for the console, which to me spelt out that you’d feel some sort of connection to a community, like Xbox Live.

If it takes a year or two for online multiplayer 3rd party shit to surface, i’ll be pissed. I just want the Wii to live up to it’s promise as with Wii Connect, and it isn’t.

Nintendo makes money off of the VC, so obviously that’s going to be their first priority.

Luckily I still have enough sense to resort to roms.

More of the old “here’s our revolutionary new thing! – ok, now let’s reel it back to the status quo before we risk anything else” it looks like.

So what? The majority of people online for DS games I get matched with are f’n cheaters. If it’s the same for Wii online games, screw it… I don’t need it.

Stingy perhaps, but maybe they’re still working on it so that cheaters and system modifiers can be banned and detected easier. At least, that’s my hope.

What? This is Madness!

THIS
IS
NINTENDO’S ONLINE POLICY!

That is out of context, Herman says that regarding the Virtual Console and Neo Geo.
Also, there are online games coming out and there already is one out. Beside that the “as far as he knows” is a dead giveaway.

I love the picture chosen for this post.

lol@arcanis

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/02/dice_interview_with _nintendo_of_america_president_reggie_fils-aime_.html

Reggie: devkits are out there with online.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/757/757000p1.html

EA: online came too late for Tiger Woods but it’s there now.

SNK must be behind the times.

The fact remains that Nintendo’s approach is clearly the most boneheaded one, is taking the longest and will always be the farthest behind because of it. Being free is good and all, but it can’t save you from constant missteps in the early parts of a console’s life.

If this is true, and by all means its not yet, remember Virtua Fighter 5 doesnt have online either and Sony has dealt with an online infrastructure already. It may be that the Nintendo needs to try out how its own online games work before giving it to other developers, like they did with the DS. Nintendo will piss off ALOT of people if this is true, but its hard not to see that they are holding it off because they are not ready themselves or they want to make sure it is the best possible online they can think up.

Perhaps they are listening to all the complaining people do about the Friend codes and had to go back and fix that which could have caused a bit of slowdown in its development. All I know is that once online games do come out for first and third party they are gonna be ridiculous.

Also, Battalion Wars 2 is 99% assured to be online but the developer is a 3rd party. If it comes out this year, wouldn’t that completely cancel out SNK’ claim.

Excellent pic, Nick. ( it’s a rhyme!)

Excellent pic, Nick. ( it’s a rhyme!)

So what? The majority of people online for DS games I get matched with are f’n cheaters.

That tends to happen when you play on dial up.

WHAT!!?? NO ONLINE!?!? THIS IS FUCKED!

I guess Nintendo’s not gonna let anyone get ahead of them with online until they make something. Problem is they’re taking too damn long… Nintendo better fix this soon before it hurts its potential to grow even faster.

I really hope that being first is the only issue and not something greater, maybe they’re still working a few kinks out, or maybe they need to push out a new firmware upgrade to fully enable it, who knows. Let’s just hope online games get here soon.

You can play DS online with dial-up?