Nintendo Announces Pay To Play Program

Nintendo Announces Pay To Play Program

Published by Ichigo
02-24-2008

Nintendo Announces Pay To Play Program

As of now, Playstation and Nintendo are the only two companies that are allowing free online play, but not for long.

Nintendo's Takashi Aoyama announced that they will be starting a "Pay To Play Program" which is pretty self explanatory. Games that have NWFC and are out now will not be affected by this, but games to come will soon have a fee to play it online.

So that customers will not be confused and buy a certain game that charges, Nintendo will have the same NWFC symbol on the box, but will be orange and will say "Pay to Play" under the symbol.

What does this mean for future titles? Not many know yet, but we may see ourselves paying to race a friend, or bring a buddy to your town, we will just have to see as this project unveils itself.

Source: http://wii.ign.com/articles/854/854251p1.html

By KirbyPunk on 02-24-2008, 01:06 PM

I don't know if I'd want to pay.... I'll have to see the games and how much extra features are added because of it.

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By Toxic on 02-24-2008, 01:09 PM

Looks like some money is going to be coming out of my pocket :/

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By Ichigo on 02-24-2008, 01:10 PM

yea me too, I cant believe it costs, Ninendo states WFC is still free, but the newcoming experience will charge, so who knowS!

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By 1337_snipe on 02-24-2008, 01:33 PM

does this mean wifi brawl will cost money??

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By Ichigo on 02-24-2008, 01:34 PM

No the idea is still in affect, so Brawl will MOST likely not be affected by this, but MKWii and Animal Crossing may be...

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By Jules on 02-24-2008, 01:56 PM

As was mentioned in the thread about this, the way they made it sound is that it will be for MMORPG type games. Square-Enix has talked about the possibility of a Final Fantasy MMORPG for the Wii and I can really see Will Wright's upcoming Spore game using this feature.

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By Ichigo on 02-24-2008, 01:57 PM

yes, thats true, and that would be awesome if they did, but you never know, they could change it at any minute, Nintendo is weird like that lol

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By SSBB Fan 17 on 02-24-2008, 02:16 PM

Well, the on-line sure as hell better be a hell of a lot better if they do this to us, or else no one will be on-line. That means no friend codes, voice chat, lobbies, sending voice and text messages, no lags, sending videos and files, ranking, and much more.

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By pokemaniac18 on 02-24-2008, 02:19 PM

I would hate to have to pay for these functions... as if Nintendo isn't getting enough money right now.

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