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lolita on 22 July 2008
Zucas said:
His point on friend codes is understandable and at least he recognizes it isn't perfect. Nintendo not as stubborn anymore it seems haha.

But there are other ways to protect the kids than limiting the core gamer as well. Parents need to take more responsibility and set parental controls thus the rest of us won't have to suffer with a limited online setup.

 

My thoughts exactly. +1



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dib8rman on 22 July 2008

Great read, I'll be reading it again at a later date to digest that, I'm sure there is some earth shattering information there, He also didn't exactly say "no commnet" about the avatars, he said he was more interested on how such an effort would be recieved by the industry, in it self that is a comment.



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Scary4Eva on 22 July 2008

Nice read. Thanks for posting.



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brute on 22 July 2008
Zucas said:
His point on friend codes is understandable and at least he recognizes it isn't perfect. Nintendo not as stubborn anymore it seems haha.

But there are other ways to protect the kids than limiting the core gamer as well. Parents need to take more responsibility and set parental controls thus the rest of us won't have to suffer with a limited online setup.

 

 i have to agree with this



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wfz on 22 July 2008

Yeah if we all had one central friend code for our system (which we do...) and it counted towards all games, that would be a great setup!



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theRepublic on 22 July 2008

Thanks for the article.



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Madanial on 22 July 2008

I hope they'll find some way to improve Friend Code soon ,its safty but still need more improvement to be friendly for users.



cwbys21 on 22 July 2008

Iwata: Whenever I receive that kind of question, I always respond, "Why don't you think our Mii or our intention behind making the Mii is something like our endeavor to come up with a new character?" Let me tell you, new characters is actually the result... in other words, we are not trying to create some new character. More specifically, what we are always trying to do is create some new [kind of] play and new entertainment. As a result, if that new play is appreciated by the consumers, the main characters are going to become the new characters. For example, when Mr. Miyamoto was making the Super Mario character, he was not intending to make the so called Mario character itself, but he just wanted to make some interesting gameplay, and for that interesting gameplay he needed to create some middle-aged guy with overalls and a mustache.
Does anyone else think he is trying to give a non answer to whether Nintendo is making a new IP?



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pimpcoop on 22 July 2008

they like to keep things a secret until they are almost ready for it to come out



Teoulas on 22 July 2008
famousringo said:
Friend codes wouldn't bother me at all if I only needed to enter in one of them. It's the individual codes for every single game which take the system out of the realm of security and into absurdity. Why the hell would I trust somebody enough to play SSBB with them (not that I can actually get online to work with SSBB) but not Mario Kart?

A framework where the Wii system stores a list of approved consoles which is accessible by any game would make so much sense. Inputting one code per friend would be easy enough that I would be bothered to do it instead of just playing matches with random folk.

I fully agree. As for the friend code framework, it's already there. The Wii address book is accessible from within games. I mean Metroid Prime 3 and Boom Blox can actually send stuff to your friends in your address book, without needing any game-specific codes. I don't understand why playing games is different and therefore requires different friend codes.

Slightly off-topic: what's the meaning of the console name in the settings? I thought it was tied to your friend code and used as your online nickname, but haven't seen it used anywhere. Instead, I only see friend codes and a name I have entered (at least in the address book).