Bearing in mind that Wii isn't mentioned in this context, I reckon Nintendo could manage an MMO if they take into account everything Wii is doing wrong, online-wise, and improve on it for the next console.
Although honestly, I'd bet on Microsoft managing it first.

Final Fantasy XI, Phantasy Star Online? Phantasy Star Universe.

AM I IMAGINING THESE GAMES!?

Aye - I think Microsoft will probably be first in to get a solid console MMO.

Animal Crossing.

Exactly, I think Nintendo are around 10 years late if they wanted to bring about the first console based MMO.

Not to mention there are already a couple in development for 360 in Crimecraft and The Secret World. Probably more than those too I'd think.



I've been saying it for ages now. A massive online music festival; a Rock Band Woodstock.

Sony's already doing it with The Agency on PS3 so this bloke is rather uninformed.

Well said.

So, for future reference, we shall clearly have to remember that 'Barnett' is not, well, the brightest bulb in the box.

There is alot talk around MMO and nintendo. I'm seriously think nintendo have MMO trick up their E3 Sleeve.

Any MMO game from Nintendo will be crap.

I can imagine Animal Crossing now:

- Join up to 8 of your woof buddies in either of your towns. (requires friend code swap OMG, cool!)

- Communicate with 30 preset messages. Yay!

- Trade items like apples with your woof buddies! Yum!

- Includes minigames you and your friends can compete in to earn munnies!

I'd dig that.

Why do people (ie, developers/publishers) think the only multiplayer games have to be upto a dozen OR tens of thousands?

Am I the only one that wants a persistant world -but with only a handfull of people- ?

Four Swords would work quite nicely with servers of 100 imo.

Likewise, a pokemon game would work very nicely with a hugely expanded Animal-Crossing style system.
(give each gamer there own land, with a semi-random landscape, puzzles and selection of creatures...then let players explore around eachothers lands. Have the lands semi-instance's so theres always creatures for everyone).

MMO's with millions of players, imo, all end up 99.9% the same, and I really dont want Nintendo falling into that trap :-/

More multiplayer is good, but I dont want Nintendo to do the next World Of Runequest Online.
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oh, and this "first" comment isnt Nintendo, so dont give them the blame for that stupidity.

Pokemon would be the obvious choice...I mean it just seems so frekaing obvious. I don't understand what the hold up is. Oh maybe that's the "hardcore" game Reggie was talking about that would be announced at E3.