Before the Wii launch, Nintendo and the gaming media were like, "WiiConnect24 updates games with new levels while you sleep". So far, I haven't seen anything at all in any game, even first-party, that benefits from 24-hour standby connected to the internet. Wii Shop, Yes, but that wasn't the point - it was meant to be better than Sony or Microsoft. For instance when that Zelda TP fatal bug came out they could have used WC24, but they didn't. I've come to the conclusion that Nintendo isn't embracing online as much as Sony or Microsoft. Friend codes are a mess with different games using their own systems and the online content hasn't changed as much or been shown off in the media as much as PSN or Xbox live. MKDS online is great and everything, but that could have been done in 2001 on the Gamecube. Or am I missing the point?

I agree to be honest, Wiiconnect24 has many problems, for example if you have it switched off or are using the Wii and you recieve a message from a Wii user there's no way of knowing you got it unless you go to the message board and wait a few seconds for it to pop up, useless.

Mario Kart DS online sucks, half the time I think that maybe it's not even online and I'm just versing AI disguised as online, no-one sways like a maniac paranoid seagull like every user does on Mario Kart online, I know it's not AI duh it's just pathetic lag catch up which looks like a 5 min job, and why should I wait 10 mins to find a whopping 4 users to vs. when there are over 100,000 unique users online per 24hrs.

Really? I get 2 players 50% of the time, and the other 50% the thing crashes on me with server-side error messages.