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oniyide on 22 September 2011
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RolStoppable said:
oniyide said:

64DD, ill concede to that point, about them just not liking CDs. 

Online, Iwata never said our customers dont care about online? Customers do not want online games, thats what was said in Feb 2005 im staring at the damn  GI magazine as i type it. That same year xbox 360 was released, and we all know how their online went. Lets keep it real, Iwata was wrong, the 2004 statement was made a year prior to the 360 releasing, the man thought that online would not take off as it did, he was wrong. Do you honestly believe he was referring to GC in 2004?? That system was already on its way out, Iwata thought the online would be a fad other wise he would have made damn sure the WiiWare didnt suck as bad as it does

Iwata did not say that online will go away (as you claimed in your previous post), because that would have been in direct contradiction with saying that Nintendo doesn't rule it out to use online features in the future (refering to their next generation systems). Here is the link again. This is from July 2004 and if you care to read it this time you'll notice that the article states that this particular quote of Iwata is an often repeated one, meaning that he was saying the same thing at least since another few months. It always was about the Gamecube's lack of online games (aside from Sega's Phantasy Star Online).

The Gamecube wasn't on its way out in 2004. Nintendo's fall lineup consisted of Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario 2, Pikmin 2 and Tales of Symphonia which they localized and published. They also officially announced a new Zelda game that year, planned to release in 2005. Not to mention that the Wii launched in November 2006. So much for that.

It really seems like you have no clear idea of what Iwata was talking about. He spoke of online enabled games and not games you buy online (which is what the Virtual Console and WiiWare service is). Lastly, investments in online gaming cooled down in the sixth generation quite quickly. Remember the time we are talking about here. In 2002/03 online gaming was supposed to become a really big thing, that's why Nintendo was constantly asked where their online games are. Microsoft had launched the Xbox Live service, Sony was bringing games like Socom and Everquest to the PS2, Square-Enix released Final Fantasy XI and Capcom tried with Resident Evil: Outbreak. None of that took off despite there being an actual push which is why you didn't see more focus on online gaming on the PS2 from early 2005 onwards, because the vast majority of hit games did well without any sort of online functionality.

enthusiam did not cool, online funtioning games kept coming out on Xbox, as well as PS2 even though on a much smaller scale. What year did they cool off?? 2005??? Please, did you ever consider that maybe they were gearing up for the release of their next gen consoles that did go full force with onling gaming? Iwata said, that enthusiam for online gaming will wear off, it did not it has only gotten bigger, he was wrong, now Ninty has to play catch up