Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

Something new from Nintendo for the Wii U, and possibly other systems, in the online gaming department:

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in ... 59893.html

Will this be a success or a failure??

I feel it's too early to say how this will go. It could be a success, if third parties get behind it and support it. The model sounds a lot like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 concepts, which have been rather popular methods of selling additional content for games. With the WiiU planning to carry some of the same titles, like Batman: Arkham City, it makes sense that the third party publishers would want a way to provide their existing downloadable content on the WiiU as well.

I'll be curious to see if this is an evolution of the Wii Shop or a complete replacement for it. If all those downloaded 8/16 bit and WiiWare games people have bought on the Wii don't carry over to this new Nintendo Network, there will be some outrage.

Also, I hate the logo for this new network. It looks too much like an RSS feed icon. That's probably exactly why Nintendo designed it so, but it just irritates me.

The WII U ? I don't know... I'm not totally interested but need to test it : maybe it'll be great : The wii is a good console but..