Why doesn't Nintendo do this,

Why doesn't Nintendo go ahead and make the console more online friendly...

They could make an xbox live sort of interface where you can see your friends online and see what their doing, they have the ability the home button brings up the home menu, while it can be doing somthing like showing you what your friends are doing and what time they last logged in.

Currently you can't see what your friends are doing and you can't see if their playing a game or not. Messaging them is very annoying... you cant just click their name and easily type a message, rather the messaging on the Wii is more emailesque where you type their name in and attach a photo or Mii.

Another thing to dramatically improve online play would be ability to send and receive messages while your playing a game.

One more thing... the ability to invite your friends to your online game during play.

And the last thing... elimination of game individual friend codes.. okay we have to get over the fact that Wii has friends codes but, why cant we just have universal friend codes that work for every game.

Im hoping Nintendo has something like this in the works for Wii, it would dramatically increase the online playability.

I love friend codes

It's the first online system for adults

And the last thing... elimination of game individual friend codes.. okay we have to get over the fact that Wii has friends codes but, why cant we just have universal friend codes that work for every game.Makedonijo

If Nintendo decided to imitate the online services of its competitors, it risk being sued by them as the services are proprietary and protected by patents. Also, Nintendo does not want the problems that plagued one of its competitors online services where users can abuse it by engaging in racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. activities (esp. voice chat). Since Nintendo wants to appeal to a broad demographics, it does not want to alienate parents, racial/ethnic minorities, and not attract bad press from its online service due to abuse done a small group of immature gamers. Since the Wii has a larger public profile than its competitors due to its incredible success, any bad press by the mainstream media would harm its sales, something that Nintendo does not want to see.

malkiko

I love friend codes

It's the first online system for adults

Jaysonguy

Why doesn't Nintendo go ahead and...Makedonijo

I love friend codes

Jaysonguy

I have never ever heard anyone say this ever. I don't particularly hate them (although one for every game is ridiculous), but LOVE? That's a strong word, Jayson.

It would be nice to banish game friend codes from each game, though. They'd be a lot easier to handle if I could just register my friends' Wii console codes and be done with it.

Im hoping Nintendo has something like this in the works for Wii, it would dramatically increase the online playability.

Makedonijo

We can keep hoping but we'll just be disappointed.

Online isn't a major selling point for the Wii and its games so Nintendo will just stick with the basics they have now. They're slowly stepping towards today's standards for online play with things like Wii Speak and Mario Kart, but I highly doubt we'll see an overhaul until next gen.

I agree 1000%. Also, the messages should be accessible from the screen that appears when you press home on the wiimote. Also once the wii speak channel is available your freinds should be able to talk to you while you're doing anything, not just on the channel at the same time. So you could be in the middle of a game and your freind could send you an invite and while you are still playing your game they can talk to you and you can talk to them. This way you would actually know when your freinds are online in brawl because they could simply tell you when they log on. And a universal freind code would be so much better than an entire list of them. Head_of_games

Yeah... Also, once Wiispeak takes off and more games support it, Nintendo should hire a bunch of 13 year olds to scream racist and homophobic slurs on every room of every game, so we can really get the whole Xbox Live experience.

[QUOTE="Head_of_games"]I agree 1000%. Also, the messages should be accessible from the screen that appears when you press home on the wiimote. Also once the wii speak channel is available your freinds should be able to talk to you while you're doing anything, not just on the channel at the same time. So you could be in the middle of a game and your freind could send you an invite and while you are still playing your game they can talk to you and you can talk to them. This way you would actually know when your freinds are online in brawl because they could simply tell you when they log on. And a universal freind code would be so much better than an entire list of them. LordQuorthon

Yeah... Also, once Wiispeak takes off and more games support it, Nintendo should hire a bunch of 13 year olds to scream racist and homophobic slurs on every room of every game, so we can really get the whole Xbox Live experience.

But, at this point, I'd be happy with a single friend code system.Skie7

Indeed.In fact,it's highly redundant why they chose to make every game have its own friend code when the console already seems to be set-up for a single friend code system; every Wii comes with its own address code.When every system has one,why not use the code for some actual online play?

I agree that they should have 1 universal friend code for everything. The console, and the games.alexh_99

Its seems clear to me that the purpose of individual game friend codes is so that when a Wii is shared amongst a family everyone can have their onw friends on their favorite games.

For example you have a 10 year old who enjoys Wii Music and Animal Crossing with her friends then you also have a teen who enjoys COD with his friends. You can already lock out the parental controls to prevent the youngster from experiencing the horrors of wars all while making sure she isn't hearing your teen's friends vugar language.

I love friend codes

It's the first online system for adults

Jaysonguy

Its seems clear to me that the purpose of individual game friend codes is so that when a Wii is shared amongst a family everyone can have their onw friends on their favorite games.

For example you have a 10 year old who enjoys Wii Music and Animal Crossing with her friends then you also have a teen who enjoys COD with his friends. You can already lock out the parental controls to prevent the youngster from experiencing the horrors of wars all while making sure she isn't hearing your teen's friends vugar language.

funktekk

I agree, why isn't Nintendo doing this?

However I don't see Nintendo doing this anytime soon. It would be a clone of the Xbox 360.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

I love friend codes

It's the first online system for adults

santanablu3

Except for the fact that you can't actually talk with just your friends in a game.... You have to talk to everyone in that game.

Yeah, an XBL style Nintendo Wii thing would make me actually be excited to play Wii.

SSBB would be AWESOME with great online.

[QUOTE="santanablu3"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

I love friend codes

It's the first online system for adults

Makedonijo

Except for the fact that you can't actually talk with just your friends in a game.... You have to talk to everyone in that game.