Nintendo's "Home"

[Just_Ben]

Sky Render said:
You view it from the wrong end of the spectrum, xenophon13. Nintendo does not wish to pander solely to the desires of a very rigid market; that's what Sony and Microsoft have done with their online, and it's not doing them any good. Nintendo's goal is to bring people reluctant to go into the online world, online. To do that, there is a need to pander to their insecurities: the lack of voice chat to prevent discouragement from trash-talking, the Friend Codes to make them feel secure in knowing who they're playing with, the pre-coded friendly messages to allow for civil conversation... That is appealing to a broader demographic. Giving options which allow for uncivilized behavior, on the other hand, is not.

Sorry, I like malstrom but he has shown that he has no idea of online, at all. And No I don't complain about friendcodes, but the voice chat and trash talk thing is plain right stupid, also are friendcodes for every freaking game! Why the hell can't my mii get one friendcode, and every game can use it, and my Mii has a global friendslist? Why for every damn game? That isn't casual friendly, that just something Nintendo didn't figured out right yet.

Same goes for voice and normal chat. If I can only "hear" and "see" things from my friends, I don't get trash talk, or some trash talk that I want to have. If I declare somebody as my friend and he can't behave, I have choosen the wrong friends. It is that simple, isn't it. Yes I can understand why Nintendo wants to save people from trash kiddy talk like the Halo players are complaining about. But there is a simple solution for those things, done 1000 times in 1000 games and systems.

And a home like world for the Wii would sky rocket, because friends can meet there, with a voice chat, a cute representation of their self (thats why I don't think home will sky rocket, it is just to realistic). Again, if you only can talk to people on your friendslist (or hear them) no problem there!

Sorry, just repeat what someone else said, doesn't make you smart. Thinking for yourself does!

50% of the Wii's in America are online, says Reggie. That shows that the User desire a good online service, even on the Wii. The solutions for the problems are plain simple to see, Nintendo just has to do them. And they don't.

Edit: Oh and predefined messages are fine, but why the hell is there no "No" in Mario Kart Wii? Somebody ask me if I am ready or want to play "Team GP" and all I can say is: "Well maybe". There is no "no". Yes, very good solution, and very uncivil that I want have no as possible answer to a question!