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nomad on 08 June 2014
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Dunban67 said:
nomad said:

Yes, there is voice chat in MK8, but they choose to exclude during games(races),  it's more of a game design decision than a limit of Nintendo's network infrastucture

Same for your "12player vs 32 players" comment. Nintendo choose 12players as their target number for MK (like Respawn w/Titanfall). And CoD for WiiU is above that with an 18 players limit. We'd probably see more if WiiU had more 3rd party support, EA's BF for example.

DLC and games are tied to accounts which are tied to hardware. In this area, you could say they are behind, but calling the whole network 2 gen behind is a big exaggeration.

Why is it when Nintendo " chooses" to limit something like voice chat or even online multiplayer altogether it s ok because it is a "choice", however if a 3rd party chooses not to include any aspect of an online part of a game then they are sorry lazy cons that have it out forNintendo?

Additionally, how do you or anyone know Nintendo s game style decision is truly what they say and not do to something else like they don t have the capability or perhaps they do but they don t want to spend the time or money or some other reason? 


Who said anything about being ok or not or lazy or not for this or that? I rarely complain about developers being lazy, i think it's stupid of gamers to accuse developers of being lazy (well, lazy programming is usually a good thing, but that's different from the way gamers use 'lazy' to describe developers). 

We can't truly know what goes on internally, but game development is full of compromises. Devs always work within certain limits. Sure they can expand those limiters (delay game, increase budget, etc) but usually they have to make decisions to stay within those limits while achieving design goals.

Additionally, how do you or anyone know Nintendo s game style decision is truly what they say and not do to something else like they don t have the capability or perhaps they do but they don t want to spend the time or money or some other reason? 

Do people honestly believe they don't have the capability to add chat during gameplay? Or are not capable of allowing more than 12players?Come on they are capable of making a whole game with online chat w/friends, online mp, ranking, and miverse but they can't add chat during gameplay?

Additionally, how do you or anyone know Nintendo s game style decision is truly what they say and not do to something else like they don t have the capability or perhaps they do but they don t want to spend the time or money or some other reason? 

Those fit right in with game develoment decisions.