I love how you don't like it or knock it down when you know nothing about it.

Jesus people, at least wait for the finalized details and big multiplayer games (COD) to come out to prove/show what it will have in place for us.

To add more, the fact that the pre-E3 demo showed teh guy pause the game, go to instant chat and start a video chat proves its pretty robust.

Why not just relax and wait.

I believe this is a very smart move on Nintendo's part. There's no way they can directly compete with the other guys who have been doing it for so many more years. You bring up a good question of why they haven't themselves already been working on this for a number of years, and I believe part of the answer is that they didn't need to, and couldn't, with the Wii. With the Wii U being their first chance to do this, they of course have missed out on a number of years.

The Wii really seems to be a bittersweet thing for Nintendo. It offered them amazing short-term gains, but it seems as if it didn't set them up for future gains well (with new consoles and tech changes).

I'm really, really wondering about that "go to instant chat and start video chat" thing. How are they going to let anyone do that with strangers? Otherwise its's going to end up like that time on South Park with Chat Roullette...

Yet you say nothing to those who act like everything is going to end up being perfectly fine... Big whoop that we saw some video chat. Now how about some of the features pertaining to online gaming?

Maybe we should just ignore all news and forget what a forum is designed for.

Why should anyone have to wait another 6+ months or so before we can have any sort of discussion? Especially when the CEO himself is answering questions about the topic.

Some people want to get things preordered and paid off in time for a console launch and maybe you forgot that the WiiU isn't very far off and we still don't know shit about it.

They give us no choice but to speculate, especially with answers like these.

It's not our fault, blame Nintendo.

Hmm, I may get a Wii U after all.

Just because the WiiU was not released does not mean they couldn't have been working on an online infrastructure.

I also think they answer of "Not being able to catch up" is terrible. Why can't they catch up? They told us that they have the most powerful developers in the world.

That's the whole point with friends and the other thread regarding Friend codes.

In the video he clearly sent a request to start a video chat and it was approved and bam. There ya go.

Nintendo also stated there would be parental locks. So i can lock my kids accounts to not do video or only with friends maybe I as the adult account approved, etc.

Point is, there is NO reason to think it will be gimped and horrible like Wii's system. It will be a modern system. Maybe no "in-game chat" etc. Maybe you'll have to pause to do things like that. It already said to not have a unified trophy/achievement system. But more miiverse based with status updates and instant game sharing instead. Frankly i don't care about that anyways.

So long as it has strong online play, with same game chat, and normalized username friend matching system. I'm good as well the greater majority of people. so far there is nothing to believe it won't have all of that and everything demonstrating it will.

Did you see the images of the netflix app and being able to view the movies on screen or gamepad? I'm mean c'mon the system will have a solid online structure.

You're saying you dont' like it. don't like what exactly? Everything actually demo'd looks fantastic. Nothing said or demo'd so far should lead anyone to believe it will suck... and 6 months? wtf. You really think it will take to launch day for anything to come out?

Maybe 1 or 2 months max... still months before the console launches.

I don't believe anyone is thinking it will be like the Wii. Only people don't want to hear answers that come off as laziness.

If PSN could catch up to Live throughout a generation, why can't Nintendo catch up to PSN?