imastalker co.
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with all the talk of free online play coming to DS and Revolution, i thought you guys might want to take this into consideration.
Nintendo games will definitely be free. as far as everyone else is concerned though, they could very well do what they did with the GameCube, and leave it up to third party developers to decide whether they want to charge or not.
there's also a very good chance that they'll have something a bit more robust ala live, but i don't think they'd want their wallet to take that big of hit. although Nintendo is different company now, and they're a bit more willing to drop some cash now. although im not sure they'd be down with dropping that much.
i think the best way for them to pull something like this off, would be to make a matching service like live, but not try to hide the fact that it's nothing more than a matching service, and have the Revolution, and the DS act as the host itself. i remember seeing plans (and i suppose you could say blue prints) way back around 2002 for something like this on the GameCube, which included some type of mini harddrive (by IBM maybe, i can't remember too well) that would plug into one of the high speed ports on the bottom of the GameCube, and this would allow for free online play, so long as you had the mini harddrive, or could connect to a system that had one. this was planed for japan only, but i guess things just didn't go through.
in conclusion though, i would not be suprised if the Revolution offered both of these online infrastructures. especially if the Revolution does indeed come with a harddrive of some sort. it would be a great solution to the current online model that Nintendo isn't necessarily cool with.
thoughts?
Nintendo games will definitely be free. as far as everyone else is concerned though, they could very well do what they did with the GameCube, and leave it up to third party developers to decide whether they want to charge or not.
there's also a very good chance that they'll have something a bit more robust ala live, but i don't think they'd want their wallet to take that big of hit. although Nintendo is different company now, and they're a bit more willing to drop some cash now. although im not sure they'd be down with dropping that much.
i think the best way for them to pull something like this off, would be to make a matching service like live, but not try to hide the fact that it's nothing more than a matching service, and have the Revolution, and the DS act as the host itself. i remember seeing plans (and i suppose you could say blue prints) way back around 2002 for something like this on the GameCube, which included some type of mini harddrive (by IBM maybe, i can't remember too well) that would plug into one of the high speed ports on the bottom of the GameCube, and this would allow for free online play, so long as you had the mini harddrive, or could connect to a system that had one. this was planed for japan only, but i guess things just didn't go through.
in conclusion though, i would not be suprised if the Revolution offered both of these online infrastructures. especially if the Revolution does indeed come with a harddrive of some sort. it would be a great solution to the current online model that Nintendo isn't necessarily cool with.
thoughts?
