Guys, I hate to break this to you but the online component is Wii is not hampered by the internal hardware of Wii but the server infrastructure. The hardware tech specs have very little to do with the online experience.

This is why mid 90's PC's could still have incredible online back then.


You're also comparing an online system - Xbox Live - that you pay annually for yet receive for free on Wii. What do you people think that annual fee pays for?

I like my PC for my online experience and I like my Wii for gaming.....

Wii actually does not run an OS. That's why the Home Menu looks slightly different in games from varying time frames (Sonic Secret Rings' menu, being a 3rd-party Feb 07 game, still looks different from MadWorld's, 3rd party Mar 09), this is because when the Wii game goes into disc mode, absolutely everything is run off of the disc. It can pool data from the NAND memory (duh, or else we couldn't save), but it cannot do anything that isn't expressly programmed on the disc at that point (this is why patches are impossible, unless a game were expressly programmed to be patchable ahead of time)

Though i would expect many of those features that BlackBird proposed to make it into Nintendo's next online system, which won't come around until they make a new console. There's no reason or motivation for them to re-launch online on Wii (and it would be a terrible headache), and it would be impossible for them to re-launch online on DS, so new consoles are needed, and the console transition would provide it's own impetus to build a new infrastructure.

Guitar Hero 5 begs to differ.

In an interview, they said that reading from an SD card as been around for a while, no ones used it though.

He said 2B, not 2.

2B is near the bottom of his list and references mandatory online and Wii Speak.

Viper is correct on that.

I believe the minimum spec was a Pentium 90MHz with 16Mb (Maybe 8) RAM, so yeah, Wii whould be able to do online stuff fine, lol.

Somehow, EA has the incentive to bypass the friend codes and other things that make going online tedious for Wii gamers. They just throw EA Nation into their games. The Conduit also has some features to get around the friend code stuff as well. Their incentive was to create a good online experience so people would buy their games later on. Same with EA.

Anyone hoping for Nintendo to offer the option to speak to, listen to or make friends with random strangers on the Wii will be completely out of luck this gen and next IMO.

Nintendo wants you to speak to your friends not pedophiles.

Nintendo wants Wii codes to be the equivalent of a friends phone number. I want Nintendo to do that too.

I hope you realize how absolutely stupid what you just said is.

I'm a 23 year old man. I'm not going to be targeted by pedophiles, and if I end up becoming a parent, I don't need Nintendo to make sure my kids aren't targeted either. I just want to play some of my favorite games against opponents with human intelligence. I can protect myself just fine.

But if you were being sarcastic, credit to you.