Nintendo Going Online, Releasing New Games

GamesIndustry.biz has an article up about the Big N's future plans. Shigeru Miyamoto stated recently that Nintendo plans to be fully supporting online play within a few years, with the DS leading the way. From the article: "Miyamoto, credited as the design genius behind key Nintendo franchises including Zelda and Mario, told the magazine that online gaming will reach the mainstream within three to four years, and that Nintendo will be moving in that direction as a result." Gamespot also has details on upcoming Gamecube games, including another Mario, the next Legend of Zelda, Donkey Konga 3, Mario Baseball, and a new Kirby game.

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Upcoming GameCube games

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

The second link should be "upcoming GameCube games". The A-tag has two double-quotes by accident, causing browsers to read it as A HREF=""....

Re:Within 3-4 Years?

[redune45]

It supports both a proprietary Nintendo wireless protocol, which is used for the DS to DS multiplayer. But it also supports IEEE802.11 WiFi which is there to access the internet though hotspots. Take a look at this gamespot article if you don't believe me.

Re:hmm

[Ghost429]

This is not to say that Zelda and Mario are the only upcoming games, but almost everyone -- gamer and non-gamer alike -- Recognizes those names, so Nintendo would be stupid not to use them wherever they can. The key word is 'include'.

Re:It is clear, you've just got clouded glasses on

[Mitaphane]

...Metal gear (which btw, the original was originally released on Nintendo's NES way back in the day)...

I just wanted to mention that the original Metal Gear wasn't released for the NES. It was originally released on the MSX. The NES version was a port from the original MSX title. A pretty bad port I should say considering you don't even see Metal Gear in the NES version. If you're a pretty big fan of the series, I'd reccommend downloading a MSX emulator and trying out the original and it's sequel Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.