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Metroid Prime Hunters Will Go Online 33

Posted by Zonk from the gotta-love-that-multiplayer dept.
HarvardFrankenstein writes "A Nintendo press release confirms what many people have already speculated: the recent delay of the release of the Nintendo DS game, Metroid Prime Hunters, will give the developers time to implement support for the upcoming Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. From the release: 'Metroid Prime Hunters will launch in the first quarter of 2006, complete with access to Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, Nintendo's upcoming online gaming service. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection will debut before the end of the year with a Mario Kart® and an Animal Crossing® game, and will let players connect wirelessly with one another as easily as if they were sitting in the same room.' This is excellent news, as many people felt that the first person shooter would suffer heavily without online multiplayer support."
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  • Great! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by chudgoo ( 812186 ) on Friday August 26, 2005 @02:32PM (#13409808) Homepage
    It was either in their plan from the begining or Nintendo is one of the few companies that really listens to their customers. Whatever the case may be, this is great news!
    • I do agree with you somewhat, and look forward to online play, but they never really got off the ground with the GameCube net adapter. It is SO READY for online play!

      • Re:Great! (Score:2, Interesting)

        by steveo777 ( 183629 )
        Have you had a chance to play Geist? Kindof a mediocre game, but multiplayer online for that game would be great.
        I haven't played it, but the idea of having a highly interactive invironment full of gaurds, animals, devices, and dowakies to posess and cause havok! Just the idea of not knowing where somebody could be hiding!
        Is that dog a player? or is he just looking at me funny? OH CRAP! SNIPER.... well let your mind run wild.
        What about CTF? Got a few guys possessing gaurds, one guy is a dog (for those t
    • Well of course. I have always loved Nintendo (Mostly because of my, er, bad relationships with sony and...um...you know). They always make sure their games don;t have those pesky loading screens, and that everything is innovative. They are the only ones to have both digital and analog button states (L and R). They made sure that the buttons register a press right when you put your finger on one. The list goes on. Makes me wonder what their plans for a controller is going to be.

  • All of you Doubting Thomases (Score:5, Insightful)

    by BlackCobra43 ( 596714 ) on Friday August 26, 2005 @02:36PM (#13409850)
    claiming MPH was being pushed back for no good reason... EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT.

  • My Call To Nintendo.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by BRock97 ( 17460 ) on Friday August 26, 2005 @02:38PM (#13409867) Homepage

    Me: But, but you said it would come out this last spring.

    Nintendo Rep: Excuse me, sir?

    Me: Then, then you said it would be towards the end of August!

    Nintendo Rep: Sir, what are you talking about?

    Me: *SNIFF* Now, now you say Hunters won't be out till first quarter 2006?! Wha.... what have I done to upset you?

    Nintendo Rep: Are you talking about Metroid Prime Hunters, sir?

    Me: Was it because I never called after that night I finishing Wind Waker? Or is it because Metroid Prime 2 is still unfinished because I have been busy with work? I will do better!

    Nintendo Rep: Bob, is that you? Stop screwing around.

    Me: I PROMISE! Please, please, my DS and I are so lonely......

    Nintendo Rep: *click*
  • And not try to include the feature at the last minute.

    Still, I prefer it with online support, than not. So I will wait.

  • Good for business (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Gogo0 ( 877020 ) on Friday August 26, 2005 @02:50PM (#13409957)
    It is nice to know that the online component isnt being tacked-on in a rush. Of course, Nintendo has never been shy of delaying things (consoles, games, hardware, whatever).
    Knowing that they havent been working on the online component this whole time, that gives me a better feeling about the single-player portion of the game. I suppose that is what they have been working on this whole time, and I am quite glad.

    It is becoming all too common these days that a game will sacrifice the single-player portion of the game just to add on a fleshed-out online multiplayer portion that people will only play for a week before moving on to the next one.
    • It had a multiplayer mode before they added online and while Nintendo promises a "full-fledged singleplayer mode" they said the same about Pokemon Colloseum.
    • Don't you think delaying the game, and then adding it in the last 4-6 months is the very definition of tacking something on?

      This is adding something near the last minute for which the game was presumably not originally designed.

      Sure, they may have designed it from the ground up for DS to DS wifi, but taking something online where you have to deal with latency is a whole different ball game.

      There are going to be a lot of people angry if Nintendo delays the game, and then the internet play isn't even ve

      • I should clarify in that my idea of "tacking-on" means throwing it on at the last moment and spending little to no time testing/tweaking/fixing it. Four to six months is plenty of time to properly execute an online portion of the game.

        And like someone said in a previous post, people are angry when a game gets delayed, but then it comes out and they buy it anyway. Most will even be happier with the new final product.
        Zelda gets delayed, people complain, they learn it is to add content, the angry mobs are
        • The trouble is that Nintendo produces few enough games as it is. I'm all in favour of them polishing them, but time spent fixing up Zelda if time they're not spending on the awesome stuff they could be doing like producing DS games (even ports... Pikmin and Donkey Konga on DS would be pretty cool), ensuring the Revolution has a decent line up, getting Mario Kart GP out for the cube (it's a japan-only arcade at the moment), and a million other things.

          I'd be happy if every time they delayed a game they hired

  • Great, now people can STFU (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rAiNsT0rm ( 877553 ) on Friday August 26, 2005 @03:05PM (#13410083) Homepage
    I mean seriously, Nintendo has to be one of the most trustworthy companies in the industry. Sure they've had some flops but they all have been something radically new/different or well intentioned.

    Everyone was frothing at the mouth when the delays were published, but sometimes a delay is a good thing. Gamers are a pissy bunch to deal with, they whine and bitch about buggy unfinished games and they whine and bitch abut delay's to improve buggy incomplete games. I personally would rather put up with a delay or two to get a finished product instead of being a paying beta tester to struggle until patch after patch is released.

    Seriously, Nintendo has the brass set to delay big titles to ensure that they are up to par, and even go beyond. More true gamers should be behind them and in their endeavor with the Revolution as they are truly the last company FOR gamers and focusing on gameplay and quality in hardware and software. I especially think that if they can make some form of development kit for free/low cost for the Revolution all the /.'ers will have finally found a geek friendly console and company.

    • Re:Great, now people can STFU (Score:4, Interesting)

      by thatguywhoiam ( 524290 ) on Friday August 26, 2005 @03:44PM (#13410356)
      Seriously, Nintendo has the brass set to delay big titles to ensure that they are up to par, and even go beyond. More true gamers should be behind them and in their endeavor with the Revolution as they are truly the last company FOR gamers and focusing on gameplay and quality in hardware and software. I especially think that if they can make some form of development kit for free/low cost for the Revolution all the /.'ers will have finally found a geek friendly console and company.

      I agree with you, except for one thing: we really don't know a damn thing about the Revolution yet. It seems premature to just say 'lets all get behind Nintendo' before we see the thing, its controllers, and its game linup. As for the 'development kit' - I wouldn't hold your breath on that one. Big N has *no* history of doing any such thing. They delayed Metroid Prime Hunters because as it was, it was going to ship minus a feature that practically every gamer thought was essential. They did the right thing, delayed the product and added the feature. They deserve credit for righting a bad design decision with a highly anticipated DS title. It bodes well, but lets wait for the Revolution (thats not even the final name yet!) before we crown them, yes?

    • Now, your suggestion seems to be contradictory:

      1. Nintendo focuses on making sure all their available titles are high-quality, and
      2. You want Nintendo to release a development kit, which will open the market to games of less-than-high quality.

      You can't have it both ways.
      • No, your post is just lacking any thought. The Nintendo SEAL of Approval shows that the game has passed rigorous testing (much moreso than Sony or MS)... any homebrew games I'm sure will not get approval of any kind and thus be hit-or-miss. But the simple fact that the community will quickly float the best stuff to the top and the dregs will be left at the bottom.

        So no, it is not contradictory at all. In fact I have about 10 non-licensed original NES carts and a number of them are very good games. The hardw
      • Charlie's Angels got released on the Gamecube. Their definition of "low quality" seems to be pretty lax.
  • Nice to here that Nintendo had troubles implementing their own wireless technology. When I was working at Atari on DBZ: Buu's Fury (Gameboy Advance), we didn't get the wireless adapters until a month before the title was supposed to release to manufacturing. The wireless API was so buggy and Nintendo tech support was less than timely that wireless support was pulled for the American release. The European release got wireless support after all the bugs got worked out.

    If you're going to implement new Ninte
    • Um, no. The wireless was already up and running, they just added online support. Before that they claimed the infrastructure for online play wasn't in place and they don't want to delay until it's ready.

      Besides, there's a difference between the GBA wireless adapter and the DS.
    • You misunderstand. The delay wasn't because Nintendo is having trouble implementing it. The delay is because Nintendo didn't implement it at all, and now, they've decided to do the right thing and put it in.
  • MORE delays for MORE content!

    Duke Nukem to be a playable character!

    Now all those "bitch" lines will have an added layer of irony to them. /already pre-ordered Hunters months ago...
  • I can't wait for this one, and I'm so glad they decided to delay it for this. Making it without online would have been a very bad idea. Also, MetroidHunters.com has updated with three new Hunters. That rounds out to 6 new hunters and good old Samus Aran. Videos and all.

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