I really wished Nintendo would give online more of a focus. It makes me wonder how they expected this UGC thing to work with such a flawed mentality about online game play.

People who want online in this are silly. Super mario games were always a single player experience. NSMBwii was the initially made as a single player game and they just said "hey lets add multiplayer to it!" Shiggy said it himself that the entire level designs were created with single player in mind.

The multiplayer is fun but it isn't something that core gamers like most on this site bought NSMB for. It's bought to play by yourself and if you have a party or something you can play together for 15-20 min before popping in Smash bros or mario kart.

Those games work online because they were initially created as a multiplayer games. As the experience changes each time you play with different people. But those games are still more fun in a party setting than online.

I highly doubt anyone would want to play NSMB at 3 am in the morning anyway. That's just strange behavior on your part.

Fixed for ya!

We have no idea if Nintendo could or couldn't have released the game on time if they added in online multiplayer. But that isn't a good reason to leave out a feature. That's actually a really crappy reason to leave out a feature. Your making a false dichotomy by saying "Mario or Mario much later with online" Especially since you yourself point out that Nintendo decided not to from the start.

And of course you could turn that argument around and complain about games that don't have local multiplayer. Games that leave out local multiplayer suck. But again, that has nothing to do with leaving out online in a multiplayer focused game. Saying "well those guys do it wrong the other way" doesn't make it suddenly ok. 

And are you saying I'm not in the real world because I'd like the ability to play online games with friends? I've never even played an online game before, but I'd like to. I'd like to play Mario with my friends that aren't sitting in my living room.  And plenty of people on here complain when games don't have local multiplayer. But that's not the issue. The issue is that Nintendo's flagship multiplayer game will have a disproportionate number of single player games because once you get out of highschool your friends tend to be in different places.

After dozens of laggy as hell online games in LBP, unless there was some way to guarantee lag free play, it would be a disaster online. Not to mention that Mario platformers require more precision than LBP does.

Don't get me wrong though. LBP is a lot of fun, but unbearable lag kills the fun faster than anything else.

I do this Nintendo should have done online leaderboards though, and had challenges with online rankings. Something like that would have been a good and obvious addition to an already excellent game.

I can definitely agree with this.  Since they clearly designed the stages to be conducive to speed runs, an online ranking system with the ability to upload/download 'ghosts' ala Mario Kart would have been great.  I'm not sure if I'd be able to compete but I've actually found it really enjoyable watching the Super Skills videos in the game.

What is sad is that nintendo fanboys will still praise nintendo for doing that ,when they could easily have done it in the first place .

At least, as amaterasu has said, they could have online leaderboards and speed chalenges but even this, is completely unnecessary acording to the nintendo logic of making games, if its gona sell in the 10,s of millions why add a feature that will add very litlle in terms of sales now that can be used as a selling point later in a seguel.

I think games with local multiplayer that dont devide the screen in 2 (LBP, NSMB) dont need online.. if you have mates who wish to play with you... the game will be a laugh

I found NSMB and LBP VERY much alike, LBP superior due to level building and online sharing but both so immensly fun that I just wish both will sell a buttload (NSMB Obviously will but Sadly LBP is not even near it)