'Just turn on the tap!' rumour - Capcom

A few blogs and news sources today are highlighting Capcom's Christian Svensson recently discussing the Wii's ability for online gaming. As this week sees the confirmation that Mario Strikers Charged will let players compete with other teams via the internet, it should be an exciting prospect to imagine original gaming content designed for the Wii, being available to buy via online connection just as we currently do with Virtual Console games.

Although technically a step behind the competition in this arena, Capcom say the Nintendo machine is physically able to produce this. They just haven't 'turned on' to it just yet. We're playing a waiting game while the Wii establishes itself via the Voting channel and of course, the purchasing of retro games. I think Nintendo will be interested to see how gamers take to playing online in Mario Strikers Charged.

We have been waiting all along for the Wii to truely become an online gaming machine with original games to buy over the net, but known that it's never been a priority for the big N so far. Hopefully that'll change very soon, Mario Strikers Charged will do very well and in six month's time, all this internet starvation will seem like a bad dream ...