The DS and Revolution to Connect Wirelessly

Nintendo President Iwata further discussed the realities of the DS wireless initiative, Gamasutra reports. At the press conference he also revealed that, indeed, the next-generation console will utilize a wireless link-up to connect to the DS. From the article: "One particularly interesting piece of news is that, though Nintendo will not charge for the new online service, other publishers will be able to with relation to particular software titles - an option that is likely to please third-party publishers who may want to launch more complex online-capable RPG games or other information-retrieval services and then charge a monthly fee for them. Iwata makes it clear that any charges will be obviously signposted, however."

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Not Going To Happen

Free online play...

[Wraithfighter]

I'm not entirely sure this is such a great idea. There isn't going to be a lot of games that take advantage of this, since they will probably have to supply a lot of the resources themselves instead of Nintendo taking care of a lot of it.

Not that I love Xbox's current model, but at least there's only one bill to pay and pretty much most of the games that come out on Xbox has some form of online support.

Then again, you do have to admit that there might be more, quality online programs going on for the Revolution, since the individual companies might have more of a motive to create a more immersive environment.

But, again, ya gotta wait for the games. Until we see a game take advantage of any of the features in a good way, then the feature is just window dressing.

Case in point: When was the last time someone came out with a good Eye-Toy game?

Re:First Post! I mean Revolution rumor.

[incom]

That new gameboy talk was never real, it's only still around because psp fanboys use it as ammo to stop people from buying a DS. End of story, nintendo even confirmed that they were false, unsubstantiated rumours.