This is an Excerpt of the Gamespy interview with Perrin Kaplan about the Wii Online

“I think you’re asking why we’re not following the other guys. And we feel that everyone has developed their own niche of expertise…We aren’t giving up on online games at all…massively multiplayer online gaming is probably not a direction that Nintendo will be going. I think that’s a niche area that other companies have more expertise in.”

“…worldwide online play is a priority for Nintendo and you will see it…I think if we had just taken the whole package, here are all the channels, here are all the online games, here are the Miis, the news, the weather, I just think it would have overloaded the mass consumer. So instead we began rolling everything out in a fashion where people can really understand it.”

“We expect for third-party games to get better and better, just like they are for the Nintendo DS. Now that the developers have more experience with the system, they have the ability to create something truly original…(regarding Wii Browser) I know that if you download the trial version, the full version will be free. So your readers should definitely make sure to get the trial version…(regarding Smash Bros) I can tell you that you’ll absolutely love it. There are some neat surprises.”

Full Interview

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Most of it made sense, the other part…wtf?

WUt is she tryin to say .. No Online ?????

sigh… don’t you hate it when you ask a Nintendo representative a question and you’re expecting something new to be revealed but instead you get told what you already know but in a slightly different way? well i hate it too. and you know what else bothers me? that she said that nintendo won’t pursue mmo games… what’s that all about????? didn’t they just make a deal with nexon (an mmo game maker) just like over a month ago?

She said Nintendo wont make mmorpgs themselves as there are better companies with more expertise for such kinds of projects. From a business view it would be stupid not to pursue all niches and a way of doing so is cooperating with companies which have specialised themselves in such niches. Thats what i understood.

thagt is stupid if nintendo didn’t like mmo’s how come the only online game for the game cube was pso.