This all started when I happened across a post on the site Infendo. The hot topic right now is Super Smash Bros.: Brawl. Greatly anticipated Wii title not just because it's an awesome game, but it's the expansion of an awesome franchise into an online world. We haven't had much in the way of fighting games that play online anyway, which is a genre that at it's core is catered to multiple players. Many fighting games include a single player aspect as an afterthought. You'd think fighters and online would go hand in hand, but it just hasn't been happening. Nintendo's foray into online gaming hasn't gone smoothly however, and Smash Bros. online reminds me of trying to play Quake 1 over mPlayer on a 14.4 baud modem. For you kids who have only known broadband, that's nerd talk for "criminally slow."
People are asking a lot of questions, they just want things to work. So enter Infendo, trying to bring some rationality or explination to the table from an outsider's perspective:
"This has been Nintendo’s plan all along. The ironic thing about it all? It’s going to work. ... As a company that exists to make money, Nintendo has sought to remake gaming in its image. Eventually, this will include online play."
And in this statement the article stops just short of calling Nintendo the reincarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ. I've been playing with power since 1986, and I'm as big a self professed Nintendo fan as anyone. But come the fuck on. It's broken on purpose? Now you're just being ignorant.
