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Well, we know that DS will go online, and the Revolution will have Wi-Fi in the box. (1337ness.) But how will they utilize the Online feature? Good features are nothing without good games.

Here, state the following (or at least try to);
-A game that should be put online/an idea for a game that should be put online
-How the multiplayer mode would work
-How many players would be involved


So far, I've seen other ideas lingering around, but please restate them, along with the criteria that I've stated.

F-Zero Online, that would be amazing.
Players could set up races with up to 30 players. Since at times that may be difficult computers can also be put in the races.
-up to 30 players.
- I doubt there would be many drawbacks, it would really expand on how awesome F-Zero is and lengthen its replay value.

A Pokemon MMORPG
I am not even a big fan of Pokemon, but this could potentially be quite cool. They pondered this idea once in a past IGN article. Playing as a Pokemon trainer in an immense world, interacting with other players, working together, doing different quests, and betaing gym leaders to. It has the potential to be quite cool.
There could be many players on different servers or something.
The only drawback is that this may require people to pay monthly fees or something for server costs and updates and whatnot. The majority of Pokemon fans are younger and will perhaps not be willing to pay.

And yeah, Super Smash Bros., but that is a given for online.

And also pretty much any Nintendo game could have a bit of functioning with online, even if it is not playing online. Such as games automatically posting game stats and stuff online to compare to other players. And pretty much any game that can be played with mroe than one players has the possiblity of being good online.

Has anyone considered LAG as a drawback?

Think about it.

Too many fighting and racing games online (PC, XBox, whatever) are held on servers which lag. Due to this, games can often become unplayable, which leads to...unplayability. You can play Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (XBox) with the game playing in slow motion. If your reflexes are quicker than that of the lag-time, you're likely to be thrown off-balance.

Chances are, they'd have to come to terms with those dialemmas first.

OMG! That is the coolest idea ever! Would weapons correspond to fighting style? In order for the game to work, I think the game would need to become a fast-action RPG instead of the traditional turn-based. How about ship raiding? While in the midst of a ship battle, other pirates can shoot cannons with grappling hooks and land on the other side. While on the enemy ship, they can steal gold or defeat the ship captain, effectively ending the battle without more harm coming to their own ship.

So everyone participating in the battle has to use turn-based actions? All it takes then is one stupid person to slow down the whole damn game unless we put on a timing system but then that destroys the strategy element (at least towards the slower players) Perhaps if the battles acted as mutual encounters, the servers could isolate seperate battles and decrease lag, though I don't know how they'd do that since I really don't know much about MMORPGs.

S-moves would probably have to be replaced with powerful magic or at least lose their awesome cinemas. It might just be easier to name specific combos and substitute those as s-moves. As far as real time goes, it would probably be best but expensive if you did just link a bunch of servers together to form different parts of the map, but then as servers go down as they periodically do, different parts of the map would close down. To reduce some server stress, actions on the maps would need to be limited to just walkin' and talkin', maybe with a few other actions which pertain to quests or the sorts.

I think it'd be better if they based it on the average level of the crew, although the higher lever characters would dominate over the lower level characters. With this in mind, there would probably need to be arenas or something where weak characters can gain EXP without being tied to their ships.

What I would like is if they made Metroid Prime 2 like they did for Halo 2 by making it online (the only thing I like about Halo 2). I personally probably won't use online play much, but I wish I could. Maybe if they develop the technology to create such servers without so much lag (I always suffer from lag, especially because I have a Dial-Up internet connection) and decide to use them, then I'll play online games. I think that the DS going Wi-Fi is enough for me right now.