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Everyone wants Gamecube to support online gaming, but the Japanese company firmly refused to appease players and only allowed local area network gaming. Analysts thus predicted a death sentece, but with the success of Playstation Online, could you really blame them for predicting this? However, perhaps in part to spur sales of the GC, Nintendo is ready to show off their new plans at E3... ahead of the presentation of their new portable.

Nintendo of America is creating an online service to use with the broadband adapter. Not having any real experience in the networking field, they made an agreement with Gamespy which has many years experience in centralized servers used to join players for games on the Internet. Logitech, an unexpected 3rd player in this venture, will supplement the accessories used for communication. The result of this surprising triple alliance has been seen before with Xbox Live!...and it will have some things similar to Xbox Live.

The headset is like the Wavebird in that it is free from wires. The options are very close to Microsoft's service...it will be possible to have a list of friends, take part in vocal chats, or look up player's records. Some things are different from Microsoft's service. A large asset to Nintendo's online servce (which doesn't have an official name yet) will be the ability to play current LAN anabled games via <Tunneling> (well known to do-it-yourself'ers). This will give developers a way to offer an online mode for a lower cost and it would seem that Ubi Soft will be the first to use this online mode with the next Rainbow 6 and Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. There is a slight possibility that you could use the GBA Player with this service as well. It would be then possible to simulate a GBA-link and play on the internet...practical for Pokemon games.

It's odd that Nintendo seems to have changed their opinion suddenly, especially since the Gamecube is near the end of its life and the N5 being around the corner. Perhaps this service will play a larger role for future generations? In any case, people will greet the effort of this new service. We will, however, need to wait until E3 to see the definitive version on Nintendo online....to know the pricing policy and especially if there are Killer Apps for the service on the way (Pokemon Online has been a rumor that keeps popping up, and Mario 128 could be a candidate).

As always in this kind of situation, I will quote my friend Clara Morgane: "Wet and Sex."

Some things do confuse me. It says that Splinter Cell supports this, but I thought that had been confirmed to not feature an online mode for the GameCube? If this is a hoax, they've certaintly gone to town on it.

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Bloody good fake if it is. I hope its real, the prospect of Animal Crossing 2 online, makes me sex wee. Not only Animal Crossing 2, but imagine the next iteration of F-Zero online, 30 of you racing around those insane tracks, shouting obscenities at each other. It'd be fucking ace!

Now excuse me for I must go to the toilet.

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give users free software to set up their own centralized servers. then there could be free servers too. well I think it might be a hoax, but I would deffently like to see this.

my fear is that nintendo isn't that innovative( or won't be, because someone has done it, thus they _must_ do it differently)...

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http://www.gaming-mag.com/index.php - this appears to be the site of the magazine, and from what I can tell (from my guessing of French) it's the last ever issue (and the April one at that).

I also noticed this caricature of "ZePOULPE" who's credited as the writer of the article at the bottom of the second page, and looks like the person in front of the TV, even though that image doesn't look like a scan.

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The corner they have backed themselves into means Nintendo are going to have to get online soon. They really can't wait much longer. If they stand up in five years time at E3 and go "Ta-Da!! Gamecube2! ONLINE!! What d'ya think?" Everyone is going to greet it with the world's loudest "meh". It's being done right now very competently by Microsoft, and, well just being done by Sony.

Nobody but the most hardcore of Nintendo followers is going to be bothered about Nintendo going online if they don't hurry themselves into gear. People will be enjoying the other services far too much to be buggering about with this new one. Better to get in there now whle the market is still fairly open.

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The corner they have backed themselves into means Nintendo are going to have to get online soon. They really can't wait much longer. If they stand up in five years time at E3 and go "Ta-Da!! Gamecube2! ONLINE!! What d'ya think?" Everyone is going to greet it with the world's loudest "meh". It's being done right now very competently by Microsoft, and, well just being done by Sony.

Nobody but the most hardcore of Nintendo followers is going to be bothered about Nintendo going online if they don't hurry themselves into gear. People will be enjoying the other services far too much to be buggering about with this new one. Better to get in there now whle the market is still fairly open.

Yes and how much profit are Microsoft making from live at the moment? Nintendo wont go online until they feel it is profitable, at the moment with the current broadband installation rate, console online gaming is going to be a very niche market.

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Look, it can quite easily be a Photoshop file being displayed full screen on a TV through either a laptop or any PC with a TV-Out card. All you then need to do is have a GC pad and all the stuff next to the TV and instant hoax/April fools. I know because I did a similar thing as a prank (Witht he help of some nice Photoshop buddies).

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Yes and how much profit are Microsoft making from live at the moment? Nintendo wont go online until they feel it is profitable, at the moment with the current broadband installation rate, console online gaming is going to be a very niche market.

I know, but I'm thinking like this.

Microsoft and Sony are building this whole online gaming world. People, even if they aren't interested in online gaming (like me) will at least become familiar with these services (like me) and when they do decide to go online, they'll want to go where thier friends are. Now, if I was going online, I'd jump on Live and (try to) kick the shit out of you lot at TopSpin or PGR or whatever.

No doubt my Xbox owning friends would hear what fun I was having, and, thinking of going online themselves, join Live because thier good friend emjay is on there too, and fucking loving it.

When online gaming starts to become profitable, and Nintendo finally decide now is right time to go online, who is going to care? Most people will either be onboard with Microsoft or Sony, or have those two companies as thier first and second choices, because all of thier friends are on there and telling them how good it is.

I just think that they should get in there early, and build the future of videogames. Not wait for it to arrive and then ask if everyone could slow down a bit so they can jump on.

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POST PIX PLZ!!!11!!1

(Just curious)

On a serious note, it wouldn't have taken much effort to have the GC on show with some wires in the right places, if it was to be a (slightly) more realistic fake.

I don't have the pictures, it was a while back. It wasn't as good as this, it was just some screen grabs from a browser on the net which had been modified to ook like an Xbox type front end and it was supposed to show the Xbox being able to go on the net as well as some unlikely Live games. We just had a laptop sitting behind the TV and displaying the pics whilst having the Xbox on and in front of the TV.

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Major Britten

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When online gaming starts to become profitable, and Nintendo finally decide now is right time to go online, who is going to care? Most people will either be onboard with Microsoft or Sony, or have those two companies as thier first and second choices, because all of thier friends are on there and telling them how good it is.

I just think that they should get in there early, and build the future of videogames. Not wait for it to arrive and then ask if everyone could slow down a bit so they can jump on.

Yes but I think nintendo's brand power alone would be able to counter this, how many people wouldnt want to play an online version of Pokemon, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Advance/Cube Wars, Zelda, animal crossing, f-zero, starfox, pikmin. If nintendo released only one of those games online and they had a online structure like Microsoft and Sony (which, as you said, most people will be aware of) it would be enough, I think, to persuade people over.

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It's not about profit, it's about allowing for consumer choice. Nintendo are dismissing a service that is appealing to certain sections of the gaming community. And 500k plus Live users is not small potatoes financially, despite the beliefs of Nintendo loyalists.

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It's not about profit, it's about allowing for consumer choice. Nintendo are dismissing a service that is appealing to certain sections of the gaming community. And 500k plus Live users is not small potatoes financially, despite the beliefs of Nintendo loyalists

Yes but arent Microsoft losing money everytime they get a live customer at the moment? Microsoft are losing a lot of money.

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