The Shrine

Wow, that is a pretty awesome move. The new Nintendo pres sure is shaking things up for the good.

"No additional subscription fee." is the kicker. It will be interesting to see the progress.

The big rumour is that they're gonna use basically the same thing for the Revolution. If they can actually offer an Xbox Live-like experience for free, it'll actually convince those of us who refuse to pay for online service to actually use it regularly.

I'd do it. I have always thought that online gaming should be free. It's really a hassle to have to pay for it mainly because once paid for you are wasting your money if you don't play it often enough. I play games fairly erratically; the battlenet for example, it might be one day, or it might be six months in between plays, I don't want to have to go through registration bullshit every single time I play; I also don't want any obligations to play a game either.

Errrr but IGN reviews Nintendo's games. Isn't that a conflict of interest?

And yeah, I don't see why the revolution wouldn't be running on that engine.

Eric wrote:Errrr but IGN reviews Nintendo's games. Isn't that a conflict of interest?

I hope that IGN has what print journalists call "the seperation of church and state": the journalists are seperated from the advertising people to prevent such problems. (This is the idea, anyway, I don't want to get into what happens in actual practice.) It's through GameSpy, which IGN owns. IGN also owns sites that review games. They can avoid a conflict of interest if they just make sure people who are involved with one aren't involved with the other.

Kupek wrote:

Eric wrote:Errrr but IGN reviews Nintendo's games. Isn't that a conflict of interest?

I hope that IGN has what print journalists call "the seperation of church and state": the journalists are seperated from the advertising people to prevent such problems. (This is the idea, anyway, I don't want to get into what happens in actual practice.) It's through GameSpy, which IGN owns. IGN also owns sites that review games. They can avoid a conflict of interest if they just make sure people who are involved with one aren't involved with the other.

It's what accountants called "segregation of duties". Send Flip down, he'll audit them for us :-)