Was he right?
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/iwata-customers-do-not-want-online-games/1100-6102100/
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Was he right?
Was he right?
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/iwata-customers-do-not-want-online-games/1100-6102100/
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Yes. Online literally killed gaming and turned it into the cancer that it is today. The only modern games worth playing are offline single-person experiences.
No.
The loudest of minority.
The smelliest of morons
>being able to play with people who aren't local to me is something that made gaming worse
This.
Online literally saved fighting games as a genre.
>Online literally saved fighting games as a genre.
Oh frick off. Online ruined fighting games by making it little more than a vehicle for streaming homosexuals. As far as the regular player is concerned barely 20% of the audience has the trophy for online play.
Arcades dying all but killed fighting games. If we didn't have online the genre literally wouldn't exist anymore. Link me where you get that stat on the trophies.
Nintendo needs to stops making kiddie games for children if they want to remain relevant
2 more weeks
Online games are their own thing
>those tabs
Based Valorant enjoyer
>Online games are their own thing
This but publishers and big studios seem to have mistaken them to be the same thing. They make single player games like they were online games to tack on awful monetization on them.
Even online games have gone to shit because they're designed to extract maximum money from the customers.
I want to see more small scale online titles without cash shops. Focus on coop and having fun with friends. Games like PSO and Monster Hunter.
always online digital only shit was forced onto consumers by tech monopolies
people want their games entirely offline and physically owned by them with online gameplay being an option solely for games which require it
>people want their games entirely offline and physically owned by them with online gameplay being an option solely for games which require it
Not people who advocate Steam as a platform. Owning games is icky!
I play a ton of games on my Steam Deck, frequently in offline mode.
Adding to that, while it's true things like Xbox live Indie games, and Wiiware existed, it's far easier to develop and distribute games on steam/PC as a small time developer, with things like itch.io, pico8, Godot, and the learning resources for all of them.
I don't like how greedy publishers can just frick us over, sure, but to pretend everything that came with steam is objectively worse than when we had to go buy physical cartridges/discs, is foolish.
I say this as someone who actually has shelves with my old retro consoles on them, the Steam Deck is honestly my favorite platform for games I've ever used in my 30 years of living, because we're finally living in a time where something I can carry around can play almost all games I want to, with smooth controls, and the company who made it is fine with giving me free reign over how I use
Most of the games I play run on a toaster, the ones that don't I have an actually beefy PC for, but the ones that do are great on this thing, and I've got retroarch on it emulating all of my old games perfectly.
Like I said, you're a fool if you can only see the negatives gaming in the current year brought us, when I'm able to do stuff like play NiGHTS, SRB2, God Hand, and Freedom Planet 2, all on the same handheld with minimal effort, and no Internet connection required. As well as guys like Lake Feperd and McPig being able to find an audience and not get fricked over from predatory publishers like Pixel did with Nicalis
No wonder the gamecube nintendo (gcn) failed.
I don't mind online games, but there has to be a reason for it to be online and online should be a separate mode.
>customers do not want online games
>customers
i think he mean cultists, in which case hes right. their core audience doesnt care.
Well played
was just looking it up for a friend, or something
>Was he right?
yes he was, very ahead of his time based beyond belief, online gaming was nothing more than a fad for morons
riiiiteeee....that shit, so to speak, will irreversibly frick up your body anon, tell that to your friend....
>cultists
What a shameful pleb.
I don’t play any online games with other people. I’ve even played Diablo II exclusively offline for the past 16 years.
Yes and no. Multiplayer on Switch* is fun and frick. But real arcades are more fun than that, if done right and if there's enough people.
98% of the games I play on the Switch are retro.
I'm a customer and I don't want online games, so yes.
What's the last game you bought?
Diff guy with same opinion. Last games I bought were Diablo 4 and also Warcraft 2 a couple weeks ago during the blizzard sale
Retro Mystery Club Vol 2 on PC.
Unicorn Overlord on Switch.
Considering they had to roll out a half-assed joke of an attempt at online the generation immediately following that quote, no.
yeah they keep making online stuff then shutting it down. Like the public are a hungry mouse and Nintendo keeps throwing out a piece of cheese on a string then pulling it away at the last moment
Ultiamtely, I think yes. MP games dont account for much outside of FPS or fighting games, and even if they ARE popular or fan favorites, companies cant just run their servers forever. And couch co-op is objectively superior to mic chat
Uh I think they mean online only games that stop working when the servers shut down. Like mmo's and stuff. I don't think optional online modes are inherently bad as long as the single player experience is kept fun, plentiful, and intact which is why halo and call of duty have been a travesty on the fps genre.
>Was he right?
Nope, once again Nintendo was almost a decade behind the curb, peddling overpriced "withered technology" just as they had with the N64 and SNES before, thankfully they no longer had the influence to hold everyone back like they previously did, so actually competent games companies could push forward with awesome online games and usher in a golden age. Now if you'll excuse me, I have Halo 2 matches to attend to on Insignia.
One of Nintendo's biggest cash cows right now is Splatoon which is all about online multiplayer so no.
People still play Mario Kart Wii online.
>Was he right?
nintendo couldn't do it at the time, and they learned from previous experiences that it wasn't huge money maker. times were different. iwata preferred to shit on it instead.
Absolutely not
Look at /vr/, they openly scorn you if you want to own literally anything physical as that means you're a "hoarder" wasting space and money
Now imagine what a normalgay thinks
reminder: don't listen to poorgays or people that missed the collecting/hoarder boat a decade ago.
Online games are gay if they are dependent on a companies servers. Every game with online should have shipped with hosting or peer to peer tools on their disc or on an extra included PC disc with all the tools available. "Official servers" should have just been a nice bonus with better stability, almost like official forums and match making services.