Can Wii succeed without a strong online support?

It depends on your definition of succeeding. For some weird reason, the Sheep here believe sales is a success. It is my opinion htat the better games a system has, the better the console. So without online support, the Wii will always be last because nothing can give a game replayability and value like online multiplayer.

 ..But cooking mama sold well, so it was success i guess.

That may be true but here in the US, arcades are a dying breed. Online is needed soon. Verry soon.

hotdaisy18

I wasn't talking about the arcades I was talking about at your home, one on one with a friend should be what games focus on. It doesn't matter though, IMHO this whole EVERYTHING needs online thing is just a fad. Just like the "co-op" in the early 90's and the split screen in the late 90's and early 00's. 

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That may be true but here in the US, arcades are a dying breed. Online is needed soon. Verry soon.

Dencore

I wasn't talking about the arcades I was talking about at your home, one on one with a friend should be what games focus on. It doesn't matter though, IMHO this whole EVERYTHING needs online thing is just a fad. Just like the "co-op" in the early 90's and the split screen in the late 90's and early 00's.

That being said, like someone else pointed out, there's a reason why fighters such as VF or Tekken haven't gone online yet, and that's the frames, latency, etc. And until a solution is found, those fighters are gonna stay offline. Even with no online play, they're still great fighters, but again, not everyone has some type of following or number of friends who will play a certain genre that they enjoy, and they'd like to have that opportunity to have online accessibility so that they can play with other people from around the country or even around the world.

^^^I do agree about fighters not going online because of connection issues and cheating. But I didn't hear anyone complaining about having no friends to play back in the day. People seem to not care that Wii Sports is offline. I mean if you would rather play someone online then a CPU go right ahead, but a main point of playing a fighting game or something similar is to be there with a friend, so online will eventually get tedious to some.

Again I'm not saying that online isn't important, it just won't be as big as it is now *that EVERY game is online* in a couple of years.

It depends on your definition of succeeding. For some weird reason, the Sheep here believe sales is a success. It is my opinion htat the better games a system has, the better the console. So without online support, the Wii will always be last because nothing can give a game replayability and value like online multiplayer.

..But cooking mama sold well, so it was success i guess.

Brown52

I'm curious to what Wii owners think of this. Do you care for online gaming with the Wii? 360's experience for online is super. And PS3's online is still in baby stages, but in progress to be better (Home in particular. At least Sony is thinking of creating their online experience rather than just sitting back). Thoughts?hotdaisy18

I'm curious to what Wii owners think of this. Do you care for online gaming with the Wii? 360's experience for online is super. And PS3's online is still in baby stages, but in progress to be better (Home in particular. At least Sony is thinking of creating their online experience rather than just sitting back). Thoughts?hotdaisy18

Uhmmm....the Wii is already succeeding.  It is not only outselling the competition but making huge profits.  If customer support, sales and profits are not considered succeeding then clearly the majority of casuals and fanboys trying to pose as gamers have lost their collective minds.