Wad
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: Nintendo to commence charging money for some online gaming |
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Damn - lets hope Sony dont follow suit. Im sure they will eventually tho, right after Home launches im sure  :/
Nintendo to commence charging money for some online gaming - Pay & Play
Nintendo has announced that it plans to introduce a pay to play service some games despite Nintendo'S WiFi connection service being free of charge in the past. The scheme will allow users to subscribe on a game by game basis for certain titles and these games will have a red icon on the box instead of a blue one.
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Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service has always been entirely free of charge, but the company will soon introduce a pay-to-play service for some games, it announced at Game Developers Conference.
"Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay And Play" will let users subscribe on a game-by-game basis to certain titles. Nintendo project leader Takashi Aoyama announced the service at GDC, but did not say what upcoming games would require payment for the service, or how much they would cost.
To avoid customer confusion, Pay-And-Play games will have a red icon on the game's box that reads Pay And Play, in place of the traditional blue Wi-Fi Connection icon, which will only be used for games that are free to play.
News Source: Wired
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/nintendo-to-beg.html
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