Nintendo DS to use GameSpy 49
frikazoyd writes "Not long after Iwata's discussion on new hardware WiFi connectivity, IGN announces that the Nintendo DS is going to utilize their GameSpy network to connect online gamers, and without any fees." From the article: "The service will be utilized by software developers in several Nintendo DS titles, including Animal Crossing DS which was revealed at the Game Developers Conference in March. Players will have the ability to choose to play with friends or strangers anywhere in the world, as long as both systems have access to a Wi-Fi hotspot. Nintendo will reveal other online-capable Nintendo DS titles in the coming weeks."
Gamespy? (Score:5, Funny)
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Similarly, if a third party is making a title for both the DS and the PSP, why not figure out a way for them to play against each other, either wirelessly device-to-device or over the net? In a properly enabled home network, why not let the DS in the bedroom play against the Gamecube in the living room?
Shouldn't this stuff be possible? Has this happened and I missed it? Seems like they're missing the boat via lack of forsight.
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If DS could do this, I'd be impressed.
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It's out there. Battle.net has been hooking up Mac and PC users for ages, as does WoW. FF XI puts PC and PS2 users together.
Chris Mattern
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Well, you'll get some form of cooperation within the same company - IE, DS and Revolution, PSP and PS2. But seeing how quickly gamers stepped away from the GBA/GameCube connection, what incentive does anyone have to continue that? Four Swords Adventures is one of the best multiplayer GameCube games out there, but most gamers didn't have the capital to invest in it.
First of all, it's not easy, because all the consoles are going to have slightly different tech, I may be wrong on this, but I think the only reason you get Mac-PC multiplayer is because most of those Mac games are just emulating a PC and loading PC code. Am I right? So a multi-platform game would have to dumb down to the lowest common demoninator and have the PC emulate an Xbox or the Xbox emulate a PS2... and who really wants to encourage developers to make more LCD ports?
Sure, it's something you would like, and other gamers would like, but how does it increase sales? At this stage, it would help Nintendo more than anybody, so GameCube owners could get some use out of their broadband adapters... and why would Sony want to participate in that?
Why would any company want to encourage you playing with another company? Most companies prefer to imagine that their competition doesn't exist, especially if they're already the market leader. No one at Sony cares about "increasing the base of available players." The whole idea is to get you to keep your brand loyalty, so you become a zombie for one system and spend your days screaming up and down about how you're on the winning team and everyone else sucks. And so you stick around to buy their next system, instead of sampling the other guy and switching over.
And if you own more than one system, you have to either choose the one version of a game you want for the exclusive features (like Splinter Cell's multiplayer on Xbox vs. the GBA monitor screen on GameCube) or else buy them all so everybody gets their filthy lucre.
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However, in a combat situation where the controls and hardware manner (like FPS games), pitting Console vs. Computer would generally be unfair at best. At the very least it would have to state who was using a console and who was using a computer.
With consoles, everyone has basically the same hardware and controls (before the use of HDTV becomes popular)
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bad decision (Score:2, Informative)
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When When When (Score:5, Interesting)
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Why did you stop at April 11?
What you'll see if you do the research is that Nintendo DS sold over a million units in Japan in the month of December 2004 alone (not counting earlier impressive U.S. sales). To date, Sony has sold only about 1.2 million PSPs in Japan, including BOTH December 2004 sales AND YTD 2005 sales. Nintendo DS has kept pace with the PSP, outselling it both during PSP's launch week and foll
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Rob
Gamespy woes (Score:2)
So Many Complaints For Something That Is Free (Score:1)
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Metroid? (Score:2)
This is awesome news for DS fans. (Score:1)