| coolguy said: nintendo should have tested the wii u better before launch with all these fw updates but i hope they get this fixed soon. |
I guess the secrecy was more important to them. They didn't want to see the kind of leaks that Microsoft and Sony try to fight but fail because they felt they had something special with Miiverse and some of their other ideas and wanted as much time as possible to separate between their launch and the competing system launches.
I think Sony is already exploring the same area as Miiverse as they already are half-way there with what they did on Vita and will now see a working model where people are actually engaged in game centric social network. The one on Vita is barely used.
Microsoft seems content to think that people will remain fine paying for XBox Live Gold when competing platforms don't require such a premium. It was fine when MS was a pioneer and only one in the market, but more recently they are just a more closed system and less appealing. I mean you could play Portal 2 between PS3 and Steam, but not X360 and Steam or X360 and PS3... and only because Microsoft has a closed system. This type of issue is why Dust 514 is only going to PSN and other PC/console cross-over projects will end up choosing such directions for same reason.
The Nintendo Network is more like PSN but it is also a few years behind and will take time to catch up and become as robust as PSN.
I feel right now Steam and PSN are the best gaming networks. XBL is fine but that premium just to play online is no longer justified. If MSFT must charge money for XBL Gold, they need to go the route of PS+ for the value and have the Silver be the same as PSN without PS+.
