I hear that IGN was also talking about a rumor where all current Nintendo "Wii" titles would be discontinued and replaced by FPS's.

Like I said though, only a rumor from IGN.

Another ply to get more hits.

I stopped listening to the Nintendo Voice Chat ever since they decided to go on their anti-Nintendo rant and diss their own reader base simply to get more hits, but luckily there is a summary to give me the info I need, and I won't have to waste an hour listening to their garbage.

Anyway, I hope this is true. Friend codes just hinder the experience more than anything else. Not saying they need to have a replica of Xbox live, but at least get rid of the friend codes, and switch them with usernames or something, friend codes are just a pain that no one needs.

They could potentially be implementing the system used by Guitar Hero 5, which made the actual friend codes invisible in lieu of the System code, but they cannot eliminate friend codes, or else they would have done so long ago. The friend code is how WiFi Connection identifies its users at its base, any name the user might be running under is merely window dressing. To eliminate them, they would have to tear the system apart from the ground up, which would mean they would either have to maintain WiFi Connection and a newer network simultaneously, or have to put all existing online games out in the cold.

Would be nice but a rumour from IGN isn't worth much.

Im calling bullshit on this, after the last podcast I dont see Nintendo giving them too much new info.

Pfft Steam is much much much (times infinity) better

I am sure that a particular developer could use their own system.

I think that a single code/name system will be in place in the next console --- but when that will be we do not know.

Mike from Morgantown

How useless are you?

I'll make this incredibly simple for you. When you are logged in to your steam account, click the "Community" tab. Directly below the URL bar, click "View my profile". Copy that URL and give it to your brother, friend or whoever. Conversely, to add someone, navigate to their Steam ID page and under "Actions" hit "Add to Friends List". You're done. If they've already added you, it's very simply to add, ignore or block them from your home page, under the friends tab.

Here's mine for example: http://steamcommunity.com/id/kitcho1/

You don't even need to have steam installed on the computer you're on to get that link. I'm in osx right now and simply logged in to steampowered.com using firefox and that ID is the first thing you see. Extremely easy to do. If you've played with someone recently, you can also add them by accessing your recently played with list.

Just so we're perfectly clear, Steam is much better than Wii online for a myriad of reasons.

I never understood why you couldn't use just the console code itself, actually.
Then again, I don't see this happening anytime soon.