Nintendo's next innovation: Massively Single-Player Online Game

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oniyide said:

Dgc1808 said:

Galaki said:
Lots of people mentioned Demon soul but skipping the explanation part.
Similar =/= Same.

AFAIK, MMO inherently mean persistent world, not a drop-in ghost players. In that, we all share the same world but not seeing each other. I think. We'll just have to wait and see what it is if they actually have a product base on the concept.

Nope, that's still Demon's Souls. World Tendency was affected by everyone playing and what they did. Depending on where world Tendency was, areas of the game were locked or open, creatures were stronger or weaker, some NPC's were friendly or  Black Phantoms that kill on sight. And you can completely ignore the ghosts and their messages and it would feel like any other single-player experience.

This really just sounds like an expansion on the online aspects of Demon's Souls.

between you and me, i think some of these people havent even played Demon's Souls,thats why they are saying the things they are. Now im not suggesting that Ninty cannot expand on it, but lets not act like they are doing something new and unique, cause that would just be plain untruths 

Are you saying Demon's Soul is an MMO? Because that is what the patent is about, note the "Massive" part. Anyway, your argument is  a double edged sword - you haven't played what Nintendo is meaning by that patent, now have you?