Is Nintendo best suited to making a console MMO?

[FaithRaven]

Words Of Wisdom said:

FaithRaven said:

dib8rman said:
last time I checked there was no voice chat in WoW...

You must have checked it long time ago because WoW has voice chat for quite a while. In the days when WoW had no voice chat people were still communiting by voice using 3rd party software like Ventrillo.

However a console MMO really NEEDS voice chat compared to a PC MMO where you can go without because you know ... last time I checked consoles had no keyboard.

And WoW being surpassed by a MMO not developed by Blizzard has less chances of happening than PS3 passing Wii in sales, which I find impossible :)

Back when Everquest was booming, people said that too.  Funny how that works. 

Analogy doesn't work here that good. Blizzard did with WoW exactly what Nintendo done with the Wii. Everquest boom is a small fart compared to what WoW have done.

Blizzard is not a company with ups and downs like Nintendo, Sony etc so thats why the analogy isn't working. Blizzard had only ups, always.

In the present Blizzard is the only developer who can spend almost unlimited funds and time on its games.

Whatever company is going to make a MMO now they will have to do in 2-3 years with a strict budget what Blizzard have done in 5+ years with a much higher budget. So thats why it will be hard, really hard for another company to make a more succesful game than WoW.

In consoles and games that don't receive content updates things restarts so all developers start with about equal changes again.

In MMOs it's like with operating systems. Who can make now from stratch a better OS than Microsoft have done in so many years ?