OMG! Awesome right!?!

...Okay that's just fan-made. It's not real.

Link - http://www.imagebam.com/image/208261159161418

Anyways, just want to know what you guys are expecting from the Wii-U online system. Here's the info we've gotten about it since E3:

Reggie:

" Our approach [to online] will be a flexible one, literally taking the best of what each of our third party partners has to offer, marrying that with the best of what Nintendo does, and bringing that versus a more rigid, a more closed type of environment."

Ubisoft:

" The first is the ability for individuals to make accounts. Rather than a machine having an account, each individual user has an account."

" Also the ability to easily find friends. Rather than using friend codes, which we've had in the past, we're able to connect players in a much easier way, which allows us to have a community that's playing together in the game"


Ghost Recon Online System:

-Ghost Recon Online features “always on” online services. It will have a personalized account system, creation as seamless as possible, flexible friends list, ranking, matchmaking, parental controls, ban list, etc.

-The game will also feature a “Ghost Feed”, which means that even if you’re not using the TV, you can get a feed of info on your Wii U controller that will track how your friends are doing, their achievements, as well as your own. You can schedule a match with other players while you’re watching a TV show.

-Wii U controller in Ghost Recon Online used to arm weapons, voice chat through the built-in microphone, mini-map on screen, used for intel gathering and action commands, can control a missile through the gyroscope, etc.

-Are friends list or accounts system-wide or for Ghost Recon Online only? Ubisoft says that’s up to Nintendo to reveal. They want those features for the game, it’s Nintendo’s call if it’s system-wide.

And of course we know they're partnering with EA which probably means the Origin Digital Distribution system will most likely end up on the system. There was a rumour than Valve wants steam onto it as well.

Then there are the recent rumours of an APP store and e-reader. Reggie at CES said they see the controller not just as something with great possibilities for gaming but for a wide range of entertainment as well.

So, what do you expect from Wii U's online?  I think it's actually going to be very good. Much better than people are expecting. I can't blame some people for being doubtful though. Nintendo has alot to prove.

So is the idea being able to diretly buy guy games from steam and origin on to the Wii U like we do with the PC?

"Don't let this be true?" LOL, so people want to keep using a crappy service?? Yeah the EA thing doesnt look great, but it has to be better than what is available now. Hulu and Netflix is a given, Origin maybe. Steam, doubt it. Im just happy not to deal with silly friend codes, one step at a time and it looks like the right step.

Reggie:

" Our approach [to online] will be a flexible one, literally taking the best of what each of our third party partners has to offer, marrying that with the best of what Nintendo does, and bringing that versus a more rigid, a more closed type of environment."

Nintendo say they want the system to give freedom to 3rd parties, not give them total control.

You have nothing to fear...except, you know,  your inevitable fall next gen like I  promised. *Grins*

thats all part of the support. look at it this way, if the online is not a pain in the ass. It could actually get some decent DL games that the HDs and PC were getting. Limbo, Braid, Outland, Scott Pilgrim, Mvs.C2, SF3online, SonicCD, Castlevania, etc. etc.

Soo the thread title mislead me.

My expectations for the online system is that Nintendo built a series of semi-independent services, most of which represent features already available on the Playstation Network and XBox Live with a few new features, and Nintendo will not mandate the integration of any of these services or forbid the use of other systems.

??? Outside of Mvs.C2, SF3online and Sonic all the games i mentioned were ORIGINAL games in their respective series. Im not worried about support and neither should you. Aliens, Darksiders and Ninja Gaiden are confirmed and they are about as far as anything released on Wii as you can probably get. Wii U might have to play catch up, but at least it will be getting GC and 64 level support and probably more.

lol i thought it was weird that they called it U-shop as they will be using the e-shop so that gave it away.

you got my heart pumping though! >:|

wow I wonder how I will feel when they actually tell us something new :-S

Get outta here with your fake trash. >:(

Disappointed.