oh come on, Ninty has the worst online of the bunch by a large margin

Goes to show that they had a pretty shitty security system, which is far worse that having difficulties because of high traffic (which is an extremely common problem)

ok lets pay world wide nintendo for $60/year to have a better service....

Anyways, on the wii u facebook page ( for the us ) I just read an update saying their eshop will now be closed from 4pm til 4am but it does state this is only temporary until this mess gets sorted. I live in australia so unsure if this'll happen here.

You can only access the online store during a certain time-frame?

Might only be for the day though...not sure but I'd say so

companies get hacked all the time. Its probably harder to prevent that from happening than say just having a crap online component. Actually the Pokebank WAS hacked so i guess that goes to show that Ninty have crappy security too

I dont pay to play on my PS3 so...yeah. And even if I did, that wouldnt make what i said any less true.

source?

And yes Nintendo online service is bad. But if you are talking about high traffic then basically every single company in the world has a bad online service, since is something that happens very often...both legit and not legit.

Sony's errors don't excuse Nintendo's errors but what about the "ApocalyPS3"?  Remember that?  Nobody's PS3 would work online or OFFLINE.  It wasn't a hack.  When Sony did get hacked, there was no online play for anybody for an entire month.  Even last month, I made this thread:  http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=173335&page= because I'd just bought a new PS3 on Black Friday and couldn't even log into my profile.  It happens.  

Gamers have a right to be upset, I agree.  They buy video game consoles for one purpose--to play games.  If my Satellite provider were down as often as my gaming services were, I'd be pissed.  However, look at Mario:

He's obviously sorry.  Why kick him when he's down?