The world can't change if people think inside the box. Nintendo has no plans for charging for online play. They can also get plenty of money off microtransactions such as Wiiware, and VC. It sounds more like the writter wants this to happen. Another idiot who clearly doesn't know Nintendo. In the end the Wii will probably be like PS2 Online. Most games are free, with only a handful of exceptions.
I like how he says struggle. Brawl plays fine now. As any popular online game, if you ever played WoW, MGS4, FF11, EQ1, EQ2, Halo 2, you'd notice they all had server problems the first few weeks.