Of course, but that applies to every game. The game side is about taking care of the parts they can control.

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Well, they did say he would watch programmers over the shoulders for hours sometimes, so he was pretty close to the production process.

Even then, I think what he said might have been missinterpreted, and that online was out because of the same reasons you seem to point.

Also, man, this thread exploded.

Do you guys know the meaning of ping? It would destroy NSMBWii online. It could be a 8-bit game and still lag due to slow ping.

I try to be up for learning new things. What specifically would be the problem?

This.

Just Sony lost all the profits from the PS2. Not sure about the PS1. But otherwise those numbers do show the bashers just have trouble grasping the math there.

I believe the term you are referring to is latency.

It is not necessarily true that latency would destroy NSMBWii,  it depends on the net-code itself, but let us suppose it is done well, then it would be fine.

latency for Close geographically located people (same country) has already been solved, take a look at counterstrike which requires fast twitch action (and that was released many many moons ago), and Xbox and playstation and a rather large large online area.

It would destroy the value of NSMBWii because online play is not a really social thing on the level of playing with your friends, NSMBWii, and virtually every multiplayer game on the wii, is a family-friendly type game, not the more antisocial nerdy online play atmosphere.

Remember, at least for now, Nintendo is aiming at every market segment BUT the hardcore gamer-types (which sony and microsoft is fighting over).

Net-play would simply be aiming the hardcore market segment, and since those gamers are more on sony/microsoft, well NSMBWii would not have sold as well.

Ping is the time required to respond to a call between the client and the server / another client. You can have the fastest connection in the world and still have very low ping, thus, when you browse a page, you see no difference from the person next to you with a 1Mbps connection.

Mario platformers require quick reflexes, thus low ping, response time. The network system is not fast enough for a game like Mario, or other split-second decision games.

I'll expand on this by saying shooters are a completely different category from something like a platformer, since shooters rely heavily on prediction in their coding since the days of DOOM on 56k.  Look at how the characters physically interact in NSMBW, now show me a shooter that has that level of interaction between players. Again shooting doesn't count because it's (usually invisible) projectiles relying on prediction, which also leads to so many "oh that's a bunch of BS!!!!" moments in online shooters. Compare local FPS gaming (LAN party or 4 player split screen) with online, you'll see a massive difference.

Actually Gears of War had physical projectiles, and its online was pretty abysmal from a technical standpoint (host advantage was very apparent).