> And Nintendo, well, no idea. They don't really seem to get the Internet. But they've surprised us before. (they have the Opera browser on the Wii!) Nintendo

> And Nintendo, well, no idea. They don't really seem to get the Internet. But they've surprised us before. (they have the Opera browser on the Wii!) Nintendo is certainly apart from the rest of the herd. I feel like they are positioning themselves as a "social" gaming company. I don't mean "social" as in Facebook, but more like those experiences people had playing NES games with their friends next to them on the couch. Their platform encourages multiplayer games to be played on the same screen. The N64 was the first console to have four controller ports (the SNES had an expander peripheral as well). Their Pokemon games promote sharing and playing with friends over ad-hoc wifi. They have eschewed standard support for a headset, making multiplayer-online games (SSMB:M and Mario Kart comes to mind) like playing against more challenging AI. Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 are great games, and are made even greater by allowing two people on the same couch to work together. I'm certain that the company understands the importance of the internet (the Wii store is nothing to write home about, but it's certainly good enough). I think that they've decided that internet gaming is not a place that they want to be (for better or worse).