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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii U shouldn't copy Xbox Live, says Iwata

forest-spirit on 29 November 2012

Some things are nice to copy though. Cross-game chat is a good feature and I'd personally appreciate a Steam-like achievement system.



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happydolphin on 29 November 2012

3rd parties love Nintendo better guys?



Turkish on 29 November 2012

What an article, not once did I see him talk about xbox live. CVG at it again.



bonkers555 on 29 November 2012

Why should Nintendo copy their competition? Their Competition copy them.



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dahuman on 29 November 2012

It's actually already better than XBL in design, they just need to add cross game chat and fix some stuff then they are pretty much good to go lol.



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dahuman on 29 November 2012
d21lewis said:
Pretty refreshing. Instead of watching the competition and trying to keep up (most likely, a losing effort) Nintendo is trying to be the leader on its own path. I have to admit that trophies/Achievements are pretty addictive and not having them is a missed opportunity to have a captured audience. It's Nintendo, though. They're quirky like that.


I might be the minority but I just can't give less shit about Trophies and Achievements, to this day I have only Platinumed Uncharted 2 cause I played through it on the harder difficulties as well since that game is teh bomb, and I don't even look at my Steam or Live Achievements. Epeen is worthless, I'd never goto work and brag about games even among gamers, only share some funny moments during online gaming is about it.



Sensei on 29 November 2012

No achievements no buy!!!!!!!!!!



sales2099 on 29 November 2012

They can't compete so they do their own thing. Hence the Wii and Wiiu exist.



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keroncoward on 29 November 2012

There kinda is already an achievement system. When you accomplish something significant in NSMBU the game ask if you want to post what you accomplished to Miiverse. I dont really care for a record showing achievements but i dont see why they cant add it if people are requesting it. As for party chat i think its mandatory to have a cross game chat like feature. You can video call someone or message them while they are playing a game but there should be party chat with more than one person talking at the same time. It would make things less complicated when playing online games.



cusman on 29 November 2012
kitler53 said:
"industry standards? we laugh at industry standards." ~nintendo

"why no third parties want to work with us?!? they so bias." ~nintendo

I think they are smart to focus their efforts on new distinguishing services rather than me-too services.

I wanted person based accounts instead of system based accounts and got that. I am thrilled about all the awesome community stuff which is collectively MiiVerse... and I never liked trophies/achievements ruining game design and padding game length and making games less fun.

See now when 2 or even 5 different accounts play the same game at the same time like Nintendo Land, they can all earn their Stamps and Leaderboard ranks and not worry about boohoo my trophies are not unlocking.