SNK's US Branch Spills Nintendo Secrets

[Tan]

taken from Game|Life:

Ben Herman, president of SNK's American division, has spoken to UK rumormongering site Spong about Virtual Console. In so doing he has spilled many interesting tidbits about how Nintendo is running things these days. The info:

    * Nintendo has all the data. "I know that Nintendo has all the code for NES and SNES titles, all of the manuals and so on. They have a pretty good filing cabinet and all they have to do is seek permission from the IP holder to put the game out over Virtual Console, then share the income."
    * No online party? "Nintendo is still not letting Wii third-party publishers include online capabilities in their games and it doesn't look like they will during 2007."
    * Arcade sticks? "Nintendo has told the games community to go out and developer peripherals that will work with whatever games are coming out for the Wii."
    * SNK's high-def ambitions. "There will be new arcade development, and the arcade development that was announced last year at the Tokyo Game Show, will include high-def content because unless you have a high-def product, you're not going to put out a PS3 of an Xbox 360 game."


I find it hard to believe no online for another year though.....

[Sauza12]

Wow, that is really disappointing about the no online thing. 

It just seems liek such a natrual thing with a system that is so centered around multiplayer.

[Tynstar]

That could be the start of digging a hole.

[Tondog]

    * No online party? "Nintendo is still not letting Wii third-party publishers include online capabilities in their games and it doesn't look like they will during 2007."

Elebits does have online capability, albeit very limited, but it is there.

If this is true, then my hope in Nintendo is almost lost. I can't believe they aren't embracing online play.

[Tan]

I'd still wait on updates to that story before losing hope. Either way that lack of online would be mostly a 3rd party issue so take solace in the fact that all the 1st party/2nd party games will still have it.

[Tondog]

But the only first party game that has had online play on the wii so far has been Pokemon Stadium Revolution or whatever it is in Japan. Not a good sign.