Nintendo needs a PSN/XBL service for multiplayer next gen

[Onyxmeth]

Mr Khan said:

Onyxmeth said:

vonboysp said:
hmm, let's see, copy what the losers are doing.....




GENIUS!!!!!!1

It's not that black and white. While the other two consoles are losing, no one has ever claimed it's because they took a proactive approach to online gaming. In fact, one of Microsoft's best sources of revenue is everything they get through XBLA and community titles on Live, their downloadable movie store and their Live Gold subscriptions. Don't think Nintendo hasn't noticed either. I'm fairly sure WiiWare was a result of playing a bit of catch up. Now Nintendo is embracing movies and tv shows on the service and there's a rumor Netflix might come.

I agree with your points, but WiiWare was something that they had been planned from the beginning. Comments about it were made back around E3 2006. Now granted, this is after Live Arcade premiered, but to call it catch-up is a bit unfair.

Oooh...sorry Donkey Kong. I missed your post. I'm going to call it the same way I call Sony's sixaxis controller, it came very quickly after the competition did theirs, but I still feel there was enough time to observe others and get your own idea out based on their ideas. This is a case where I believe if MS had never created XBLA then I don't believe Nintendo would have created WiiWare. Considering it came out roughly 24 months after the announcement, I think it's very likely the announcement was made in the very early stages of planning or even before any work was being done and this was nothing more than Nintendo implementing a good idea they saw from MS.