Would you pay 40$ if Nintendo....

...released a premium online service similar to Xbox Live? (once a year)

Nintendo Wi-Fi would still be free but this would be more like a Wi-Fi Plus.

It would be like
-No Friend Codes
-Voice Chat for all Wi-fi games
-Demos
-Tell you what your friends are playing
-Ability to join a friends match if they are in one
-Etc. (Like I said before similer to XBL)

So the question stands would you pay 40$ a year to have a better online service? (Im also extremly bored so im making this topic to what responses I get)

Yes, $40 a year is no problem. And it's worth it not to have to do the slow annoymous match thing with Mario Kart.

Edit: ya know changed my mind. If PS3 Online is better and still free why can't nintendos be?

No. Nintendo's online technically works, and I don't have any problems with that. The problem with their online component is friend codes (for most people anyway, I don't really care about typing 12 numbers so I can play with someone I want, instead of some 12 year-old insulting me in his girly voice), and Nintendo isn't going to eliminate friend codes just because you're paying $40 a year.

Also, there aren't nearly enough online games to make people even care to pay a dollar for online. Microsoft can charge you money because every other game that comes out has online multiplayer.

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Also, there aren't nearly enough online games to make people even care to pay a dollar for online. Microsoft can charge you money because every other game that comes out has online multiplayer.

bob_newman

Yea, I just want to play Mario Kart Online with out having to wait for nintendo's slow matching sevice. Just because I'd rather not put in alot of numbers from people I don't know will be online.

I will never pay to play online again after the horrible experiences I had with XBL. This is why I play online games on my PS3. FREE!!!cmpepper23

I am not sure why you had a horrible expereince with XBL but a better with PS3 since they are sorta the same except more lag and less user interaction on the PS3 (I know I own both). But I would be willing to pay for the Wii IF it had more promising online games and not just SSBB, Mario Kart and Strikers.

nope i like the way it isi'd rather pay 40 dollars for the GTA triple pack for wii though but thats off topic

Hell no that's just pulling a microsoft and ripping off the consumer.

The Xbox sells games like Halo becuase of the online play and to get people to pay to get the full online experience is bullcrap. They make money off online game sales so they should just suck it up and pay to get a return and my goodness do they get a return in software sales. To charge customers is garbage and it's why I refuse to buy any microsoft game product. Downloadable extras that you have to pay for, paying for maps, paying for demos (which is really the icing on the cake becuase the more people who play a demo the more buy the game. It's all insulting and garbage.

ALL THIS STUFF IS FREE TO PC GAMERS! Why should anyone else have to pay for it. The game developers make money off this stuff regardless and they are already giving it to us up the rear end everytime we pay 60 or 70 dollars for a game!! I mean common brand new ps2 titles at my local eb are commonly 30 bucks and sometimes 20 for players choice games.

Bullcrap I say. Sheer bullcrap.

online play should be free and should have always been free... i think paying more to play online after you've already paid for the game already is just greedy

soooo... my answer is no

No, I wouldn't pay. One of the reasons why I prefere the Wii is that all it's online capabilites are completely free.

A voice chat feature will probably be implemented in the future (there are already talks about it), and soon there will be a demo channel for DS games (not what you meant, I'm sure, but it's something). Also, there will probably always be Friends Codes; I think a paying service would just streamline it a bit and lower the frustration for people having problems with it, but if Nintendo chooses to do that, it would probably be free in an update.

I would like the ability to see what friends are currently playing and attempt to join in if it's a multiplayer game. I'd also like it if Metroid Prime 3's achievement system (it was a lot like Xbox 360's, except it actually had benefits) worked it's way into more games.

Those features and more would be excellent, but I still wouldn't want to pay for it. I hardly used the Xbox Live features for my Xbox, so it was basically like losing $50 a year. While that's not a lot, I wouldn't want to go through it again.

lol...it seems to me that a lot of people don't realize many things about Xbox Live. Mister "I don't buy microsoft game products" probably plays games on Windows XP or Vista for one thing. Also, he doesn't realize that demos on XBL are free.

Anyway, no I wouldn't pay for it on the wii. Maybe after SSBB and Mario Kart come out.

because i would rather pay 50 bucks a year for a good online service

then spending 300 bucks every 6 months to upgrade my pc

NO!!

...These are the online servises I use;

halo online (PC) free

halo 2 online (PC) free, gold ain't worth it!

wii shop-I pay, to acctually get somthing in return

PSP online free

DS online free

...I don't see the point in paying if you don't have to!?!?!!

...also, voice chat isn't worth 40$