Conina said:
No, it wasn't different for Nintendo. EA used the same GameSpy-excuse: http://www.ea.com/news/update-on-ea-titles-hosted-on-gamespy The writing was on the wall since 2012 when the first batch of games using GameSpy lost online support. Nintendo, EA and other publishers had enough time to switch popular games to their own servers or buy the GameSpy servers or whatever. |
How many other online Wii games, besides Smash and Kart, had active bases, at the time of Wii's termination? For the DS: Kart DS, And the Pokemon games. Which you can get around with moving your Pokemon to the next games. So it makes those games moot. Nintendo still has an out over that. EA doesn't. They have countless online games that people play. Which warrent making servers. Nintendo had really only two. Which one is still functional, thanks to fans. It be like making severs for the Weather Channel or News Channel. Just for two things? Not worth it.
