Activision: First 3rd Party Publisher to Support Online Play?

[i0n]

In a recent interview with IGN, Activision announced their plans to bring online functionality to Wii games and implied they would be the first 3rd party publisher to do so.

IGN: Will this acquisition enable the implementation of online functionality in future Wii games published by Activision?

Steve Pearce: We tend to provide online functionality for all console platforms.

Dylan Collins: If you look at our track record, we've always been pretty much the first network guys on any platform coming out.

IGN: So you do have plans to develop online-enabled Wii games in the future?

Steve Pearce: Yup.

Dylan Collins: Yeah, I would say we do.

Read the full interview here:
http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/770/770831p1.html

 

[in touch with the wii]

umm but what about the 2007 ban they mean next year i think

 

[Celestial]

Yea, it says in the future, so could be months, or even next year.

 

[Skippy]

umm but what about the 2007 ban they mean next year i think

The so-called "ban" was either an inaccurate quote or misinformation.

Sega has a game coming out in Japan in May that uses both online and Mii's.
http://www.n-sider.com/newsview.php?type=story&storyid=2666
http://sega.jp/wii/pphokuto/

 

[briers07]

I would love to have online play with the wii!

 

[yobryan2001]

yea, will nintendo ever be making something where our mii's can talk to other mii's via internet?? basically just chatting i mean, but on the mii channel

 

[randomboy]

they should make a kind of pictochat for the wii where your mii's represent you

 

[Wii_BrEnDo2007]

nice idea random boy!

 

[randomboy]

thanks

 

[Trace]

Nintendo never banned third parties supposedly. That was a nasty organized rumor. The first online game is some pokemon game, third parties are supposedly going to start popping out around Q2/Q3. Supposedly.

 

[RedProdigy]

So has that "2007 online ban" officially been declared worthless? Or is it implied? Because I did think it was too far-fetched to be true.

Hope Activision makes a good online game with what Nintendo gives them (aka the dreaded Friend Codes).

 

[Skippy]

It's not that 3rd parties were banned, it's that it took Nintendo forever to get the online development libraries to the other developers. And now that they have it, it'll take awhile for them to get their games working with it. That could take until late this year or next.

 

[PtonJalken]

Nintendo never said they banned 3rd party online.. Hermen (whoever he is) said it. Theres bo fact behind it.

 

[TwilightWarrior]

Well lets just hope Nintendo never banned it

 

[Westlander]

Nintendo never said they banned 3rd party online.. Hermen (whoever he is) said it. Theres bo fact behind it.

Maybe not, but wasn't Blazing Angels was supposed to be online? That's apparently been scotched.