In an Interview with computerandvideogames.com EA Mythic creative director Paul Barnett states that if anyone can pull off an MMO on a console, Nintendo can.

You would have to build something very console centric from the get-go. I think probably the best chance of someone doing something like that is Nintendo – doing something crazy that no one expects.

He also goes on to say that Rock Band is the closest thing he sees to an MMO on the console.

The best example I can find for a perpetual online console game is Rock Band, with it Xbox Live community store. It’s somewhere in there. I don’t know what it is, but that’s perhaps the closest I’ve seen to convincing console people to do things together, to do things online, to do things that cost money, to earn income.

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