A Nintendo representative just confirmed that Miiverse will be ready on launch. Furthermore, people will have to download the app in order to access the content. In addition, the achievements or trophies system will correspond with Miiverse. *For those who don't speak french, I do lol so I just summarized what she said*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1z-qLrwbTk8#!

Nice, I was worried this wasn't going to be at launch. But is there really a unified achievements system? I thought that was supposed to be individual for games (if the developer wanted to implement them).

:/ Download? It should be default...

Well, Miiverse is one of if not the most showed features of WiiU, if not the most. Not having it at launch would be terribly disappointing.

I think the situation with achievements is that it's up to devs to decide to include them or not in their games. For those games that have them, they can be showed in your Miiverse, although I'm not sure if they appear them atumatically or you have to tell Miiverse to show them.

There are a lot of unknown things about Nintendo's online. :-/

download or packed in I don't care since it's free anyway. Nintendo just want you to connect as soon as possible to get it i suppose

Guess they're not going to focus too much on this then. Good to know.

Absolutely correct. This is rather foolish on a number of levels, especially when it's supposed to be one of the kipper apps for the platform.

Mii verse is that thing that puts pop-up blocks in NSMBU telling "woot, I got an 1-up!"?

Well, thank you Nintendo!

No, no, kipper the fish--they're delicious and would set the U far apart from the rest of the pack. Not having them at launch is a terrible mistake.

Rol wins.