| BasilZero said: Using that logic, you might as well remove Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros' online Multiplayer then @ Financial talk. As for the chat system + players around the same range of skill/very good friends - I'm pretty sure there's a majority of people who are capable of finding people/friends to play online easily. There's also a lot of chatting programs which can be used as a alternative even if you dont use a ingame/insystem chat such as teamspeak, Dolby Axon, Raidcall, Ventrilo, etc. So in the end its either developer laziness or financial risks (which I dont think Nintendo has much to risk for considering I'm sure they have more than enough monies in the bank :o). Giving a reason such as "We want people to experience the NES style blah blah" is just a poor excuse for some other reason. |
Those 2 games are clearly competitive games that can truly benefit from online, where you don't need friends to play, or chat to coordinate, but it could use a good matchmaking system. Besides they already have the online code for Mario Kart (at least) in the bag. What would not make good financial sense would be a co-op mode (story or classic mode) for Smash with online support.
