The Wii U is the perfect opportunity to bring multiplayer to the next level

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RolStoppable said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

10% would be anything but generous.

Online is not just a different kind of multiplayer; it's a part of the increasing social networking. Tell Microsoft that local multiplayer is the future of video games and then tell me how they respond (seriously, I want to know).

Why? Is the Wii's online suddenly fantastic?

Microsoft would probably tell you that that is why they made Kinect and why it has been their focus in their last two E3 conferences. If online multiplayer were capable of replacing local multiplayer, then Microsoft wouldn't have needed to change their strategy drastically during the middle of the seventh generation.

I never said it's fantastic, but it was one of the main selling factors for Mario Kart Wii.

Kinect isn't there due to lack of online users, but simply to broaden their userbase. The casual gamers (and "hardcore" who play games with motion controls) had already experienced the "fantastic" motion controls that the Wii offered, so Microsoft thought they might try to get some of them on board, which they did.