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   Government-sponsored online games

   

   dorpus, Jul 7th, 2004 @ 10:39am

   
   

   The Chinese government has built an online game, released on the anniversary of the July 7th Marco Polo Bridge incident, in which Chinese patriots fight the bad Japanese.
   
   http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20040707-00000045-scn-int
   
   The US army has also built online games to promote recruitment, if I'm not mistaken.
   

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   Something to consider...

   

   Permanent4, Jul 7th, 2004 @ 11:10am

   
   

   Perhaps Nintendo prefers to bring everyone together in the same big living room, rather than have individual gamers isolated in remote locations. One of the biggest series in the history of Nintendo consoles was Super Bomberman, which was arguably the best party game in 16-bit console history. It's often more fun to talk trash to your friends when they're in the room with you.
   The blanket statement is a bad way to promote that idea, though, because online gaming is happening and isn't going away. Still, we live in an era where people buy more than one console, so it doesn't seem too far-fetched to have one console for online play and another for some good party games, no?
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 7th, 2004 @ 11:22am

   
   

   I am a customer who doesn't want Nintendo jumping on the internet bandwagon. I won't go so far as to say that no one wants it, because clearly some people do. However I think there are a lot of people like me who would rather play single player or with friends than a bunch of random fucktards on a public server.

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   Re: No Subject Given

   

   Mike (profile), Jul 7th, 2004 @ 11:37am

   
   

   I don't think the idea is to ONLY offer online games, but have it as an option.

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   No online Nintendo

   

   Mark, Jul 7th, 2004 @ 3:58pm

   
   

   Where Nintendo is really missing the boat--and where their stubborn rejection of online gaming will hurt their bottom line in the US market--is sports gaming. Online play is what gets sports gamers really excited; as good as Madden was offline, it was immeasurably better when it got online leagues, tournaments, and so on. Nintendo has sports titles, but the lack of an online component makes them about as appealing as black and white televisions in the age of color. It's a remarkably short-sighted position, and I'm continually surprised every time I hear some company rep reiterate their stance.

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   Re: No online Nintendo

   

   Permanent4, Jul 8th, 2004 @ 1:54pm

   
   

   Where Nintendo is really missing the boat--and where their stubborn rejection of online gaming will hurt their bottom line in the US market--is sports gaming.

   ESPN did a whole week's worth of features on sports video games not too long ago. They mentioned that a lot of NASCAR drivers actually play online racing games to prepare for specific tracks and practice different team racing strategies.

   So if you're racing online and the guy in the Dale Jr. car manages to whip around you from the outside, it might actually be Dale Jr. I guess you can't get that with Nintendo, huh?

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