Nintendo Teases Online Plans

[*NormalGamer*]

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Nintendo Teases Online Plans
A web survey hints at Nintendo's direction for online on DS and console.

by Craig Harris


May 10, 2005 - Nintendo today sent out a web survey to members on the company's mailing list, with questions focusing on the company's new direction of going online with the Nintendo DS and its next-generation Revolution console. In the survey, the company asks users to offer their input to questions that relate to whether you'd prefer a unique screen name or a preselected one and if you like playing against friends or complete strangers.

Most importantly, some questions focus on specific Nintendo game franchises that players might be interested in playing online. Listed in the survey are games such as Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Smash Bros.. Animal Crossing has already been revealed as an online title for the Nintendo DS, and Mario Kart DS will be at E3 next week. Nintendo has also revealed that the company's working on a Four Swords adventure on the Nintendo DS.

But so far, Nintendo has not revealed any plans for a Super Smash Bros. follow-up on any system, so it's very interesting to see this game appear in a survey list.

The survey has been posted until May 11th, but is only open to those who have received the email from the Nintendo Online Group.
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NG: I already completed the survey, myself. So did you guys complete the survey?

[Jason-RN]

I filled out the survery a little earlier. It definitely got my hopes up about Nintendo's online plans. I hope we find out a lot more about the Big N's plans at E3.

[benwayshouse]

I hope they pull it off soon; I'm switching to *gasp* the dark side fast... the dark side that is... SONY. ... :-D

[sank90]

Heh, I also filled out the survey, this is going to be so awesome!

[2quik2silver]

Nintendo has to make sure their online plans work out well, since Sony and Microsoft already have begun the online process, online-play is the key to Nintendo's success if it wishes to be in competition with the other two, but I I'm not hatin', I think Nintendo will just fine, it's just that people are afraid that the online experience will be better on the other two systems since this is the first time that Ninetendo has, as Kevin Pereira says, "stepped into the online pool".