During Nintendo World Reports Live Podcast for Child’s Play one of the participants who was privy to Nintendo’s inner workings during the Gamecube era revealed that DICE originally approached Nintendo with Battlefield and proposed it as a Nintendo exclusive. Nintendo were apparently very excited about the game but it never came into existence because of the Gamecube’s basically non-existent online infrastructure.
Wow. Dissapointing. (Not gonna say !first!)
but you just did O.o
Lol
I saw what you did there!
WOW
An interesting bit of history indeed.
goddammit! if that went thru, the wii may have had better online and graphics! then those lousy playstation fans couldn’t enjoy it!
I fail to see your logic.
No, not quite. I doubt Nintendo would develop around one game in particular, so the Wii would have most likely remained the same. If this did go through, that would have meant Battlefield would definitely be a different game than it is now.
“Those lousy PlayStation fans” can enjoy it because Sony’s not completely a generation behind on how online gaming works. Nintendo’s behind the 360, PS3 and PC on online gaming and they refused to do it back then because they had it in their heads online console gaming wouldn’t catch on.
Meanwhile, it took off just fine with the Dreamcast and Xbox.
lol the dreamcast had dial-up and no one used it because it was a joke
No one used it? Where do you get that from? ALOT of people used it and at the time Dial Up was still the primary way people got online 1999-2000, yeah there was the broadband adapter if you had bb but good luck finding one. Seriously, 45 games were playable online, and 22 others had DLC.
A few of those online games, Quake 3 Arena, PSO, PSOV.2, NBA 2k1, 2k2, NFL 2k1 and 2k2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dreamcast_network_games
I myself had a lvl 200 android hunter in PSOV.2 carried over from V.1.
dreamcast online was very much used. Phantasy Star Online alone was the online killer game. I logged like 300hr online. I played quake 3 as well on dial up and was surprisingly good.
He’s actually right…
While Phantasy Star was about the only game actually played online (sure the sports genre was as well), but let’s take a look at the Dreamcast’s success, oh wait…
Dreamcast was sadly before it’s time.. While it was a decent console and was one of the first with the capability of online gaming, it never took off the way it should have and Sega became a game developer instead because of it.
Had Dreamcast’s online gaming actually taken off, the dial-up only modems they were shipped with would have eventually handicapped the console even further once broadband/DSL were available.
The NFL2K and NBA2K series’ were very much played online by the sports fans. It was especially what forced EA to eventually monopolize the NFL license because the 2K series was giving the Madden series heavy competition that was more in favor of Sega’s Sports division (which later forced Sega to sell off the label).
There were also those who played the console versions of Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena. Yes, they were VERY much outclassed by PC players with broadband connections, but both were still quite popular.
It’s very easy to dismiss these things and say “Hurp durp, Dreamcast wasn’t a success.” Despite the fact that the Dreamcast was discontinued in early 2001 after being released in late 1999, it was still very much played and supported online by those who owned one. I can tell you from personal experience that people started playing less and less online only after Sega decided to end SegaNet (which was around July 2001). Phantasy Star Online was indeed a key online game that many people kept playing until the US servers shut down in 2003, and were kept up even longer for the Japanese and European players.
Also keep this in mind: broadband internet didn’t become the standard until the mid-2000s. It was expensive back in the early 2000s and very few companies offered it as most of the time it depended on if it was even available for your area.
And yet some how it still one the console wars. (It’s all about sales people. PS2 won the generation before.)
*won
Resident Evil 4, a GCN exclusive, then became available for other platforms. Your argument is invalid.
And the whole world is better off because of it.
Gotta somewhat agree and disagree with you. Mostly agree though
Why?? How has ONE SINGLE game not being on the gamecube make the planet better? How exactly have we benefited?
…………smh to the fullest degree. A great oppurtunity wasted on nintendo’s part. battlefield would have fit in perfectly as an exclusive because DICE releases games every now and then and actually take time to perfect and craft their games for the most part- much like Nintendo does but o well.
Woord
Would never have worked; Nintendo doesn’t like repackaging the same shit over and over then selling it as new.
Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby etc.,
You saying all those arent more or less the same every time?
*compares skyward sword to ocarina of time and super mario bros to super mario galaxy* yeah its always the same //sarcasm//
@jake Comparing battefield bad company to bf3 is pretty much the same fuckin thing!(no sarcasm)
Well I don’t know, try comparing any two entries in those series and find out.
Disclaimer: I’ve not played Kirby so I don’t know if it’s true for them, I assume it is though.
The main games in the Kirby franchise is very similar but not the same. Each new game offers new levels as well as tons of gameplay innovation.
I’m under the impression that Kirby is sort of boring.
Uh…
How many times has Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 and 3 been ported and remade again? How many ports does The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II and A Link to the Past have now? Hell, Super Mario All-Stars IS a repackaging.
This is very dissapointing…… :(
Oh well battlefield will most likely be on the wiiU when it comes out.
Wow. Nintendo missed out on a lot because they havent had a solid online platform. Gosh I hate them sometimes. Well actually like all the time. But yet I still love them. Weird.
Certain games on the Wii used to have a decent online community.
Mario Kart definitely had a decent community for a while with minimal hacks (have no clue what it’s become now, have switched to PC gaming and haven’t touched my consoles in the past 6 months, Wii even longer probably).
I doubt Battlefield would have had any affect on their online gaming as they have CoD ports without online multiplayer capabilities… If anything, Nintendo passing on Battlefield only lengthened the lifespan of the Battlefield series, they should be thanking their lucky stars they did get passed up by Nintendo.
It’s still fairly good amount of people online, every time I get on I get a full room of 12 racers, being the best online Wii game I’m not too surprised.
Dice would have pulled out eventually. Battlefield would so have not survived.
That would have been incredible!
silly Nintendo! Battlefield is for PC.
what you just said made me think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnbasyPn2E&feature=related
Silly Battlefield! FPS is for Call of Duty!
(haha, couldn’t resist this one. Don’t believe me? Check mw3’s day1 income)
lol.Yea, but to be fair battlefield sold pretty good. It’s just, it was no where near the CoD killer the publisher were hyping it as.
Nintendo’s about story plot while PS3, XBox, and the PC is about blowing shit up mindlessly with strangers hundred’s of miles away
by story plot I mean there’s an actual goal past killing things
No, no, no. Bullshit dude, its wrong to make those kinds of statements! Da fick do you even mean by it? All pc, ps3 and xbox360 exclusives have a story plot! Damn good ones too; sure theres killing and ‘blowing shit up’ but theres a reason as to why it happens. Saying shit like this is why I HATE fanboys!!
Yeah, Assassin’s Creed is very good. It has a great story.
Oh well, the Wii U is gonna have everything in it from childish games to ones that are entertaining and mature. Besides I’m not a “fanboy” since I haven’t played my Wii willingly since the beginning of this year.
Ouch, oh well, this is why I own multiple systems.
Me too, and why the wiiU sounds so great to me! I could go from ownin’ n00bs with a chopper-gunner in COD in crisp 1080. To playing zelda or mario. I think its my “go to” system for next gen.
Me to also!
I have a PS3 for games you can not get on Wii and i have a Wii for Metroid, Zelda and stuff!
A Wii U should have a mix so i can stick to it. A Wii U will have all the games coming to it.
And i’m getting a Wii U for its console exclusives also. Killer Freaks, Ghost Recon online is not coming to PS3/Xbox360. Also the Wii U games will have extras that the PS3/360 can not do.
Way to let that one go, Nintendo.
I got Time Splitters so I was okay.
This, TS 2 & 3 were awesome!!
My favorite shooters of all time.
You mean we all could have had ignorant 10 year olds, yelling obscenities in our headsets on the GameCube? I personally am glad I didn’t have to go through that shit. The GameCube was perfectly fine the way it was. I never regretted buying mine.
Every time i play COD on PS3, all i hear is ignorant 10 year olds on a 17+ game.
Kids shouldn’t really be using mics online but them playing is fine for me.
I really hate those kids when i play hardcore Search & Destroy. The kids on my team always kills us all of and non of the enemys really kill us.
One point on that mode a kid on a mic on our team blew up a car right next to us and killed us all.
It was a great system, but i think NGC was not fine the way it was. The mini-disc were limiting, one of the reason some games weren’t on it. Textures had to be highly compressed and even games like RE that used 2 disc had highly compressed FMV scenes and backgrounds.
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