Nintendo Wii Fanboy

This makes me want to become a closet Nintendo fan instead of the advocate that I am today. What is going on here? Do we need to put together a petition saying we won't buy games that are perfectly suited for online play but which don't include it? Here's the beginning of the petition:

worm

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WHO THE **** cares????

Really the controls are a mess and this is a cheap cash in port. I don't even have plans to rent this piece of **** of software.

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I completely hear ya, worm. Im a flat out Nintendo-whore, and they simply cant use the "It just came out" Excuse much longer. Look at how big the online play is on the DS, you don't need to completely start over, you need to move forward with what they set forth. If its a question of funds, im sure most people would be willing to fork over a couple of bucks a year to at least get some type of online community going, and if it means no friend codes, i'm willing to put in even more.

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Worm, I think we have to yes. It's almost getting to that point, but I'm unsure if anyone would really do that. I know I would. I'm happy to start boycotting Wii titles until we see a decent online implementation, but I bet there's probably another 2, maybe 3 people in the world who would do it too unfortunately.

Every new announcement about lack of online on a Wii title reinforces my decision to buy a 360 in the coming months. Then Nintendo won't be getting my (regular) gaming dollars. Unfortunately I dunno if that will bother them too much when something like Mario Party 8 can sell like it's going out of fashion.


And Rockstar's comment should have been

"All the focus is going into fixing the totally broken Wii controls currently present in the game, so we have to ditch online in order to ship in time"

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Feh, online started out very slow on the DS, it is doing so on the Wii

eventually we'll get more online love, but the fans have to accept that its clearly not Nintendo's priority at all (i still say that, after their GC philosophy, we're lucky to have what we got) or cease being fans (and i say this with no ire or ill-will, fandom is a fickle thing as it is)

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All i was asking was SSBB to be online and I got my wish and for that I'm thank full. Although Nintendo should start looking into more online support for their games, We should probably just give it a little more time for it to be perfected.

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Color me surprised.

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I wasn't planning on buying or renting this game, and now, I'll even discourage people who ask me about it against the game.

Now, as a programmer who has looked into Microsoft technologies (.Net and directx and all that ugly mess), the reason they don't include online play in Wii games is this:

When you're making a .Net app, instead of coding security stuff, you simply do function.security(enable);, when you want to make an online aspect, you simply call the online(); function. I imagine making an XBL game is as simple as calling setXboxLive(true); or some other thing like that.

I highly doubt Nintendo's online tools are as simple to use, so that any idiot (read: R*) can use'em.

On the DS, they've been perfecting them for about 1 or 2 years (When did Mario Kart launch? 2006 or 2005?) and obviously, way before that, so DS games come out online enabled more often because of this.

The Wii lacks Infrastructure and tools that any monkey can use. As much as I hate Microsoft and their ugly tech, seems like they've got an advantage on this...

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I don't think it's a big deal. It's just RockStar shooting themselves in the nuts. Another company will just sneak in and make the online tennis game we've all been waiting for and get the big money bags that come along with it. They all know we want it. They've all seen Wii Sports. It's a race against the clock now, and RockStar just opted out entirely.

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online ping pong sounds like the most boring thing ever anyway

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Wii don't get no respect. (Except from EA Canada--they love us)

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Putting my fat ass foot down now. No Online=No Buy for simple games like these. Yes friends over is a great way to play, but come on, sometimes I just don't want friends over. Come on Rockstar, no need to be gay on us.

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Never mind Table Tennis, what about an online golf game, surely one of the easiest sports to implement an online mode into?!?

I'm feeling pretty uninspired by Wii online ATM. The lack of voice comms only make matters worst.

It may be a free service but it's just aswell, imagine if we were actually paying a subscription for such lousy support!

Really hope We Love Golf goes against the grain and includes online play, that would be a good start, might even invest in a new Skype headset for the game so I can chat with my mates while playing :-/

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