Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay And Play online Wii games subscription service planned

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay And Play logoNintendo project leader Takashi Aoyama announced pay-to-play service at the Game Developers Conference 2008 last week. While Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection online service has always been and will remain free, they do want to introduce this optional pay-to-play service in the future.

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay And Play will let users subscribe on a game-by-game basis to certain titles. No titles nor their pricing were mentioned. Wired further reports that: “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.”

Is this meant for Massive Multiplayer Online games?