That doesn't mean squat. I'll believe it when I actually see the bundle with my own two eyes. I don't take anything the corprate whores at IGN say at face value.
From the article:
"From the available artwork, it looks like this disc will be included as a pack in with new GameCubes..." (emphasis mine)
IGN doesn't know crap about it other than the fact that new art has been released to the retailers. Everything else about how the game will be available is pure speculation on their part. Period.
Last I knew the limit on the number of players for multi-link games wasn't imposed by the hardware, but by the software. IIRC, when you're daisy-chaining GBAs together there is always going to be an open port into which another link cable can be connected (provided you're not using the 4-way adapter previously mentioned).
Example: Andy links to Bob. Chuck plugs into the port on the Andy-Bob cable. Dave plugs into the port on Chuck's cable. Four players. In theory, Fred could plug in to Dave's cable and that would make it a five-player thing. And you could chain from there. In theory you could have an infinite number of gamers linked, but then you'd run into connection issues. Plus, I don't think there are any games that support more than four players yet.
So will the pre-existing link-games work with the wireless adapter? We don't know, but Motorola would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't make it backwards-compatible. And Nintendo and the game developers would be killing sales if they didn't make sure the new link-games worked on both specs.
As for mix of wired and wireless... unless Motorola makes some sort of pass-through port on this thing, I would say that it's unlikely. But any GB player who buys this thing is probably already going to have a link cable sitting around, too...
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Alternatively, you could go get a boxed set of Warhammer and play the game that the entire Warcraft universe ripped off...
...thus says the AC who couldn't log in and risk his Karma on flaming me...
That doesn't mean squat. I'll believe it when I actually see the bundle with my own two eyes. I don't take anything the corprate whores at IGN say at face value.
Time for some objective analysis...
From the article:
"From the available artwork, it looks like this disc will be included as a pack in with new GameCubes..." (emphasis mine)
IGN doesn't know crap about it other than the fact that new art has been released to the retailers. Everything else about how the game will be available is pure speculation on their part. Period.
Time for a bit of logic here...
Last I knew the limit on the number of players for multi-link games wasn't imposed by the hardware, but by the software. IIRC, when you're daisy-chaining GBAs together there is always going to be an open port into which another link cable can be connected (provided you're not using the 4-way adapter previously mentioned).
Example:
Andy links to Bob.
Chuck plugs into the port on the Andy-Bob cable.
Dave plugs into the port on Chuck's cable.
Four players.
In theory, Fred could plug in to Dave's cable and that would make it a five-player thing. And you could chain from there. In theory you could have an infinite number of gamers linked, but then you'd run into connection issues. Plus, I don't think there are any games that support more than four players yet.
So will the pre-existing link-games work with the wireless adapter? We don't know, but Motorola would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't make it backwards-compatible. And Nintendo and the game developers would be killing sales if they didn't make sure the new link-games worked on both specs.
As for mix of wired and wireless... unless Motorola makes some sort of pass-through port on this thing, I would say that it's unlikely. But any GB player who buys this thing is probably already going to have a link cable sitting around, too...