GameSpy To Power Wii
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In a press release sent out today, GameSpy has announced it will provide "multiplayer technology" to publishers developing games for the Wii. The middleware allows the same online functionality found in DS games but will include friend rosters, matchmaking, and ranking data similar to Xbox Live. It's about time! Looks like Nintendo is finally willing to share their online service with 3rd party developers.
Nintendo has had a toe in the online world since Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection launched in 2005, but game-specific friend codes and the lack of a central hub have made the service a cumbersome experience. Could this mean the end of friend codes and the beginning of a beautiful online experience?
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Could it be true? Have The Big N finally realised that having game specific friend codes and all that crap makes it stupidly difficult to play games with your friends, without a certain degree of offline co-ordination first? I mean, when me and Kelly used to play MarioKart vs online, we had to CALL each other to start the game and find each other!!
Compare that to Live!, where you just turn your 360 on, and you get a list of your friends that are online, and what they're doing. To play with them, it's just a matter of sending an invite. Easy as pie. Nintendo, to keep their family-kid-friendly image don't show you what your friends are up to at all. You gotta speak to them in the real-world to get them to start an online game. Works yes, SUCKS BIG TIME though.
Here's hoping.
Which reminds me, India you still haven't fixed that wireless router? we were gonna duke it out on Tetris-DS-Crack.......
8 comments:
dude... i'm closer than u think...
lets just say if i take a boat across the North sea, i'll be over at ur place ;)
still waiting for my residency to come out. then get settled into my own place and we'll start gaming. should take about a couple of months.. can't wait..
WHAT?!
where the fuck are you?
scandinavia? germany?
talk to me!
Sweden.
and...
pro evolution soccer?!! c'mon
Cool Sweden
alone?
I HATE PES, I HATE FOOTBALL games. BUT Haniboy bugged me to get it, so I did.. he wants to try playing it online... I'll exchange it if it's crap, which I think it will be.
Sorry.......
Tell me more about the Sweden situation? what about your dad, mum and sister/abbas/sally?
you guys have AWESOME broadband, I remember 4-5 years ago we were just getting 1mbit at home while my friends in Sweden had 10mbit :|
i am alone here, my dad is still abroad and the rest r still in Baghdad :(
BB is awesome here (100mbit), though i am on a public wireless AP for now.
will catch u later on messenger to tell u the rest.
Congrats India :D
yom il illi :))
can u catch me 2 on messenger to tell me as well :D
oh and PES is THE football game one should get if he is interested in borrrrrring "team-sports".
brrrr.. :D oh i'm really genuinely happy for India :D
Cheers '13... yom il ilek.
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