CORRECTION: I played Brawl last week using the LAN adaptor and Ethernet while playing online, and I had MAJOR lag. I lost 5 battles due to it

Huh? @ the bolded part.

And lag is on a case by case basis. It's highly dependant against who you are playing. 

Those are the things it offers in random play... in friend code:

Co-op multi-man Brawl, online play using any rule set you wish (stock, time, team, certain items on/off), all stages selectable, local online (up to 3 people on one Wii), lag-free matches between those of good connections, and the ability to monitor what your friends are doing online (after entering the annoying friend codes) and join games that are being hosted.  

Also, to slightly lessen the blow of friend codes, you can join a match with registered friends even if the people they are playing aren't registered, and then from the character menu you only have to click one button on the unregistered people and it will auto-register their friend codes.  

What it lacks:  Voice chat, something better than friend codes, stat tracking.  

Poor Nintendo they neglected online to lower price to get it to the masses. They stuck with there core demographic. No real innovation. The only thing they got is wii sports with a motion controller. Basically a one trick pony. They may win this war but they won't win the next.

^Yeah, poor Nintendo, they are hurting so bad. ......whatever.

I do wish they'd put some more focus on their online though. I understand why they don't want voice chat, because of the vulgar trash talk, but I think to solve that, they should just enable voice chat between friend codes. That way, any trash talk would be between friends that don't mind.

Etech is trolling hard.

The on-line is like the girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead.

When it works, it is fine. I have had great fun with Gamerace and Fazz.

But when it does not, it is horrid.

The last couple of times I went there, I didn't have the options on the front screen and no spectator option available on Brawl with Anyone.

There never seems to be anyone out there to brawl with anyone.

Rules change, dropouts occur, sometimes you can't get into battles after joining, waiting.

There are some really lagged people out there.

Not everyone who said they would add my code has done

Right now though, I am more upset over not being able to complete a 100 person brawl. After all, my five-year-old son is competition enough for me.

Mike from Morgantown

nintendo is all business; if they thought a beefy online experience would significantly help their sales they would do whats necessary. considering the article, i agree w/ the guy expect what he said in his final sentence stating that nintendo's online experience makes gaming feel lonely...