Nintendo has announced that it has formed a development partnership with Korean studio Nexon for a forthcoming but as yet unspecified Wii title.

According to Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata in a recent statement made to the Korean press “We plan to actively support Korean game software developers who have great expertise in developing online games and support their advances into foreign markets…”

Iwata-san also went on to talk about the impending Korean Wii and DS Lite launches, but the big news, at least as far as we’re concerned, is the mention of online expertise and that bit about ‘advances into foreign markets’. And let’s not overlook the fact that Nexon is the outfit responsible for the online racer Crazyracing Kartrider (no, us neither) and the 2D cutesy-pie but insanely popular MMORPG Maple Story – a game that’s been sapping the spare time and bank accounts of our Far Eastern gaming cousins since 2002.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!! About flipping time we got news on online gaming! I always wanted to play a legitimate MMO game, not one of those free ones on pc that get old quick… And a game like this on Wii? Oh, thinking of the possibility makes me tingle inside lol.

pardon me for my unawareness (real word or not, you get the idea) but what’s MMORPG?

Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game =P

YEAY! can’t wait to see if it’s true!

umm wushu, nexon puts out maple story and guess what???
its a free mmo on the pc. but its an awesome game and its hard to split my time between lvling and chatting on maple story and playing Wii. (i was going to type…playing with my Wii but how would that sound?) anyway maple story rocks, Wii rocks and maple story on Wii would be freakin awesome.

by the way, Wii would need a keyboard for this as it is chat intensive and a major part of it.

oh and if you decide to check out maple story(i recommend) my character’s name is drakwrath2. u can find me there. just message me. drakonwrath is my other character.

I love MMO’s

thank you segab, SWEET! ONLINE MULTIPLAYER!

Chat can go all picto chat … you just write your words… remember that ?

Maple story is cool though. Look it up… really crazy 2d rpg or MMORPG… it’s the best istnat messenger out…LOL

Maplestory was good fun so lets just hope this game will be as well!

i love mmo’s and have been waiting for a good one especially on the consoles…maplestory….idk.

If maplestory comes to wii that would be awesome