Miyamoto: Nintendo Could Charge For Online Gaming

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makingmusic476 said:

There was a thread on this earlier, but this thread contains far more information and more quotes from the original interview.

To reiterate what I said in the previous thread, my issue with Nintendo's online implementation primarily revolves around the way they handle ownership of downloaded content. The inability to transfer anything I buy through the VC, WiiWare, or DSiWare when switching consoles is a pain, and it ensures I won't be switching to a black Wii or anything of the sort anytime soon.

Bringing a unified ID structure to the Wii would solve not only sold the serious issue of retaining ownership of your games long after you lose ownership of the original hardware they were purchased on (through linking any purchased content to said ID), but it would also make interacting with your friends online far easier.

As for the subject of any fees associated with online play, paying for the entire service is not a good idea. Paying for "some extra value" in addition to online play is something I wouldn't mind, however, given I would only buy the added (and presumably unnecessary) features if I felt the value was worth it.

I would be onboard with a paid service only if I could transfer data more easily between consoles. I hate the whole relying on nintendo to transfer your data if your console is failing. You end up paying 80 bucks for them to transfer it, while they still won't send you all that game data that you can't transfer. After y wii crashed there are games i have never gone back to play, because i just can't get excited about unlocikng the content again until the next time my wii fails. I have stopped buying new downloads on the wii  because it just is more data that i will lose access to eventually. The way their current system is buying vc or ww is largely a waste of money unless you are sure your wii will never ever fail.

 

Next gen, if Nintendo does not have a better system of transferring data that lets me back-up EVERYTHING i will likely sit it out.