No Wif-Fi for 3rd-party developers until 2007

[i0n]

At the bottom of a recent IGN article is the bombshell news that Nintendo's 3rd party titles wont support online play until 2007!

Gamers hoping for an online component, however, are in for bad news, because one isn't planned. Activision would not say why, but IGN has separately learned from multiple development sources that Nintendo will not release Wii Wi-Fi Connection libraries to third parties until early 2007, which means that no third party launch title will have an online mode.

Wow this is a pretty big revelation and may indeed affect sales of the Wii's third party titles given the huge deman for online gaming.

source of article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/728/728041p1.html

 

[Wishale]

I thought we already knew that?

Oh well.. Doesn't matter.. Im sure there will be downloadable updates.. If not.. w/e i'll buy them anyway.

 

[King Wiired]

Ta for info, but i'll still be gettin the ones I want.. I can wait

 

[JCpackers05]

yeah i heard about this yesterday.....but can someone give me a list of a couple third party games....coming out on the Wii

 

[King Wiired]

Pretty sure theres a thread somewhere on here with a list.. look around

 

[Kaps]

No big deal. Nintendo just wants to flesh out Wiiconnect24 so that the 3rd parties don't have any major bugs to fix. There will probably be updates and free patches for the games.

 

[biskit003]

if the wii comes out and the games come out with no wifi would we have to buy the same game in 2007 to have wifi for it?

 

[Wishale]

No, You shouldn't have to buy the same game with wifi in it.. You should be able to update it with a patch or newer version...

 

[The_Mitch]

im sure the 3rd party games that support online gameing will have it built into it at launch but it wont be usable untill 2007 (only 3 months, no biggie)

 

[Ronan]

is red steel 3rd party? THat would be sweet online.

 

[Wishale]

Yea, As far as i know red steel is third party..

 

[Wii Believe]

wot is a 2nd party game?

iv never reli understood the term

 

[Sovieto]

aww i0n you stole my topic!! oh well, a little credit could be given, it seems like everyone is tkaing my topic and putting it into their own

 

[Squall7]

wot is a 2nd party game?

iv never reli understood the term

This is a second party definition, and just for the hell of it:
This is a First party definition
This is a Third party definition
Well, at least Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Warioware, Smash Bros Brawl, Wii sports, Disaster Day Of Crisis, P.R.O.J.E.C.T Hammer and all the other first party titles (which lets face it, more people are excited about them than things like Red Steel (which has had mixed opinions) and Sonic (Not as big as first party titles)).

 

[i0n]

aww i0n you stole my topic!! oh well, a little credit could be given, it seems like everyone is tkaing my topic and putting it into their own

I pulled the story from joystiq.com