You try to hard buddy, give it a rest.

Don't take it too personal buddy.

I do agree that they need an account system but Nintendo gets a lot of shit these days for things they do or they don't do. Super Mario 3D World deosn't need online multiplayer though.

I have to wonder if answers like these (or the controversy about NSMBWii and Peach and "skirt physics") are just joke answers, or if Nintendo is actually that dumb in terms of feature inclusion (or they're just schizophrenic about the whole thing. Many of their games have robust online features)

1. Fighting games sales really haven't cratered.  The transition from the PS2 to the PS360 saw a split in sales between the two.  Early in the gen (Dead or Alive 4, Tekken 6, Soul Calibur 4, Mortal Kombat 9, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Street fighter 4) saw healthly sales when combined. the later stage games (Injustice...sorta,Tekken Tag 2, Soul Calibur 5, Ultimate Marvel 3) were casualites of declinng sales of those said consoles.  The fighting game audience tends to be older (later 20s, 30s) and the transition from the arcades to online have been smooth.  While many perfer local competetion, online has proved to be more than enough, with constant improvement in speeds and reduced latency.  With Evo and other tournament based events having all time attendence and viewership, the scene does not fit your description at all.

2. For many games you can easily filter by skill level.  If its just a free for all, yes you can get very good companionship or very crappy ones.  Now a days games are matching up based on skill level, so if you are looking for somone to be your equal in a game, you can find them.  IF you want to be in a more support role and hlep new players, you can do that as well.

3. We live in a world of instant information.  Word of mouth will get out whether a game is online or not.  By offering it as an option, you are just doing that, having an extra option.

4.  I have a Wii U and outside of mii verse battles of people saying why SM3DW is good and laughing at xbox360 and PS3 users for missing out the online community is very sparce.  A game like this would have easily put it on the map...but oh well.

 Yes.. Because when I want to play a Wii U game I don't want to get a Wii U experience. I want to get a 80s experinece..... Fuck...... If I wanted a NES experience I would simply to play a  NES game for fuck's sake.

people who want Mario mainline games don't buy it for mp experience they buy it for the single player so it wouldn't really effect sales that much

I'm of the firm belief that not every game should have online multiplayer for the sole sake of having it.  Put that extra time into polishing the main game rather than trying to shoe horn a half baked online experience into it just to say it has it.  Did Arkham Origins REALLY need they online multiplayer mode, or could that time have been put into really making the main game shine?  And that isn't nearly a bad offender, just a mild example.

As a rebuttal to Kyliedog's par for the course negative opinion, I'd rather play Mario local multiplayer with my wife and son, or call up a buddy or two a few times a month any day over trying to actually get a good game together with some wingnut I don't know online.

3D World is a multiplayer game by design, online multiplayer wouldnt be tacked on at all. Its just multiplayer in its current form.... over the internet. Arkham Origins is not a multiplayer game by design so thats not a fair comparison. Its like releasing a racing or fighting game without online, why?

Online wasn't needed for this game anyways. It's a game that is meant to be played with local friends and family and that's exactly how I played it.

Who knows, they might have added it, but honestly, they had to get this game out the door asap. I shudder to think how long it would've taken them to develop, test and implement a _proper_ online mode. The game would've been delayed well into Q1 2014, best-case scenario. They simply could not afford that.

Anyway, that he said they've been experimenting with online since Mario Galaxy is pretty interesting... I'm willing to expect the next proper Mario title on Wii U will include an online multiplayer mode. Most likely won't come out before 2015, though.