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GDC 08: Nintendo Launching Pay-to-Play Program for Online Gaming
by Nick Breckon, Feb 22, 2008 12:22pm PSTDuring a morning session at the Game Developers Conference, Nintendo network administration manager Takashi Aoyama announced a new program that will see Wii users being charged for service while using Wi-Fi enabled games.
Aoyama referred to the program as "Pay and Play," and noted that games supporting it will be marked with a new red Wi-Fi logo to ensure players are not mistakenly charged. No details were provided on the program, though it was noted that Wii Points will serve as the method of payment.
The network guru also mentioned that a new data compression solution will soon take care of Wii storage concerns, shrinking software to a tiny size until needed.
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if not, who would pay for that crap?
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i created this hypothetical dialog to help!
Game developers approach Nintendo: "Hay Nintendo, we want to make games for your system."
Nintendo: "Swee--"
Game developers interrupt: "BUT! We want to charge for portions of the game, like subscriptions or extended content. You don't have any tools to help us implement this."
Nintendo: "Oh. Well, we want people to develop games for our system, so we will put the tools in place."
No one will play for this crap. Give us some decent multiplayer games first maybe?
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