Nintendo says no to MMOs

Well, there go our dreams for a PokéMMO; Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has confirmed that Nintendo has no interest in developing an MMO at this time, putting to rest the rumor of a massively multiplayer version of Animal Crossing, as well as any hope for Nintendo further broadening their online offerings.

[wiizy]

im sure that will happen.. nintendo is just secretive

[INehalemEXI]

MMO's require an HDD most times.

[incogneato]

No Pokemon MMO? Most likely no Wii for me then. This is the only game I truly desire.

[desolationstorm]

I just dont see how Animal cross shouldnt be a small scale mmo. Like ok doesnt have to be one massive world or anything but lets atleast have small towns of cpu/real players. then be like the others and be able to travel to differnt towns.

Like Id be cool if Nintendo let like firneds with frined codes form towns towns together. Then you can travel to other towns. I dont know because Nintendo is always so up tight. I am looking forward to AC so much that id really really want it to be a little more open to online.

5 Things I want
1. Online towns
2. Use Miis(the animals can stay just let us use our miis)
3. Ability to move from town to town
4. Ability to open up a business(like design business or a trading business) or arrange town events.
5. Ability to move your house to differnt locations.
Theres more but those are things that interest me.

That I think would be awesome, Im not naive and looking for one giant world because Nintendo would not do that. Though giving us the ability to have towns with our firneds would be awesome. Plus if you meet someone else who is in another town you can be sent an invite to move to that town. Just small sacle like 6-8 people per town. Or hell just put them in random towns with other people and give them the ability to move.

The ability to move is important for me because it extends the game. Because after you get the biggest house then what? You find a house or a differnt spot to move your house.

[darkside]

Great move Nintendo!!, what the He11 is wrong with animalcrossing MMO??

[heyheyhey]

why not? it seems that a casual MMO like Pokemon on AC could work really well on the Wii

[JohnRico]

I could see that POTC MMO working on the Wii. To bad Nintendo

[Maddens Raiders]

No interest, or the *proper capability?

[Bruceongames]

Here is the original interview http://uk.gamespot.com/news...
Judge for yourself.
To me he is saying that they won't copy any existing MMO. That is all.
In fact he almost implies that they will do an MMO on Wii.

This is all over the gaming press and they are misrepresenting him just to get a big headline.

[BrotherNick]

It would work, but that would bring even more people under nintendo's spell, and away from 3rd parties.

[Figboy]

did Gamespot *NEED to lead into the article with a bunch of Nintendo PR numbers and ballsucking? seriously, there's like six paragraphs talking about how fantastic Nintendo is, and how they've "come back" from a hard lot. i mean, we're clicking on the story to read the *INTERVIEW, not to read Nintendo's stock numbers. that, and they just couldn't refrain from the jubilant hyperbole; "more spiritual revival than press conference?" really now, Gamespot. Nintendo is a *GAMES COMPANY like any other. there is nothing mystical about them. they make good games, but they aren't the be all, end all of video gaming.

we are still gamers, right?

as for the interview, it's always interesting for me to see Nintendo's view of gaming nowadays, as it seems drastically different from what it was ages ago, when i was a boy. but i don't think they are outright dismissing MMOs on the Wii. or at least they are considering them for the obligatory Wii relaunch, where they pack a hard drive with the system. afterall, MMOs need to be installed on *SOMETHING.

i'm sure Animal Crossing MMO will hit at some point. i mean, why *SHOULDN'T it? i *LOVED Animal Crossing on my Gamecube, and even back then i was hoping that there'd be an MMO version, so me and my fiance could play together.

[Bruceongames]

An MMO can live on a server. It can just be a browser game. Look at Runescape for example.