IGN review New Super Mario Bros. Wii

[dib8rman]

Soap_McTavish said:
I'm only comparing them based on the fact that they are platformers, but still.

Craig Harris of IGN writes: "This is aimed squarely at Nintendo and all the fanboys defending its decision: make any excuse you want, but any other first party publisher on any other current generation system would have ensured that a game as high a caliber as New Super Mario Bros Wii would have put focus on getting the game online. The fact that this game totally shuns online completely shows Wii owners just how unimportant internet play is to the company. Or rather, it continues to show how ignorant Nintendo is to the online demand."

 

I'll indicate to you and Craig if I may that Sony and Microsoft being the other 1st parties of mention haven't the resource to create a Mario game, it's a case of  should of, could of and would of.  Neither have the talent to create a game like this, hence why neither have a mascot like this. (Yes Master Chief included, eh hem ODST *cough*)

Secondly a person like Craig should remember why Nintendo said no online was placed into this game, and also he should know Nintendo would love to put more attention to getting their users online but they didn't add it for the good of the game. If you don't examine it then you'd think this game works well with online, play it and you'll notice the difference between online and local multiplayer.

I'll argue that the only reason gamers want online is because of past expreiences with local multiplayer. In the end for certain softwars and consoles online isn't the same for more than obvious reasons.

Lastly if Nintendo copied or did in concept or thought like other 1st parties, we would have a HD standard controled game and yet another media hub PC lite console.

Simply this Mario game would not exist. If it wasn't for Wii pushing 2d gaming with VC and showing other things people wanted the other 1st parties would be forging on into "HD isn't good enough we need UHD and more DLC."