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So what do you guys think?

when they do the wii will die, the wii is fun but no one is dumb enough to pay for play on a wii, if they wanted to pay 4 play they would play wow.

yes the wii is fun.

The numbers have shown ALOT of people have wii's sitting around waiting to spend a few bucks on.

With products like MarioKart and SSB Nintendo can't go wrong.

I don't know about 'Wii will die'. The Wii's success atm is not really tied into its online multiplayer service - online Wii is a bit tragic really. Any improvement to the quality of online multiplayer on the Wii can only be a good thing, for example an arena FPS with a control scheme based on Metroid just sounds dreamy.

Its impossible to make a call based on the infomation at hand in that thread which is really just speculation. The per-game model could be interesting - would it be a flat fee per game to unlock the online content for a title on a console, or a subscription model a la MMO? How much will it cost?

how much will it cost?

Nintendo ALWAYS get the price right.

I still don't see why the hell you have to pay to play console games, yet PC online games are free and have been for ages with the exception of WoW and the like. With a PC you can easily play need for speed over the internet with your mates or some quake, what the hell makes consoles so gorram special that they need some fancy pants middle man server to set up games for you like console users are too stupid to figure out how to set up their own games?

+1 for whoop.

-1 to whoop for talking like a browncoat!

I don't think that its anything special about consoles, its just an emerging trend to attempt to milk some more cash from gamers. I think its actually part of a greater movement to charge for multiplayer service provision, market leader in this area being MMOs. Note the recent ominously described 'free' update for a rather popular PC FPS game.

For a while now I've wondered if this would be the general direction for games and other content that can be copied relatively easily. Again WoW is the best example - there is no need for Blizzard to copy protect their binary content at all as it is only half of the product.

By placing advertising in online multiplyer or flat out charging for it when they can get away with it, publishers have a much better-protected revenue stream than relying on copyable boxed content.

With a PC you can easily play need for speed over the internet with your mates or some quake, what the hell makes consoles so gorram special that they need some fancy pants middle man server to set up games for you like console users are too stupid to figure out how to set up their own games?

difference is, with PC games your ISP pays for the server hardware, the bandwidth and in some cases the game server license.

with consoles that is all ran by the console network. the exception to this is games like cod4 where people can host their own servers and no one has to pay for infrastructure.

what is happening is these companies are seeing subscription models working in things like WOW and want to use a similar model to create continual revenue streams instead of just getting it on game sales.

difference is, with PC games your ISP pays for the server hardware, the bandwidth and in some cases the game server license.

Actually I meant peer to peer games against 1 or two mates rather than the servers ISP's put up, I do see your point in that respect though someone does have to pay for the servers/bandwidth. So you're saying I could whack COD4 on my 360 and play against my friend in whoop whoop without having to have a gold live! membership? If so then I take back what I said.

Obviously things like xbox live! are about more than just playing online games but, imho, ms are shafting us something fierce with that s*** and as far as I can see that's pretty much all we CAN use it for. As far as I can tell we can't even download movies using live because we're not in the magical land of faeries and hobgobblins known as america. I actually would pay their monthly fee or however they do their subscription thing if we had access to those movies.

edit: browncoat eh
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