I didnt get that part at all. My ps3 can definitely stay connected all night.

Nintendo is not going to copy the other guys. They did that last time, and that was their lowest selling home console.

Nintendo is also trying to make the online more social than impersonal (what the "friends" in "friends code" means). We don't have to agree with it, but Nintendo is not going to make an XBL or PSN clone.

All Nintendo really has to do is get rid of FC's and allow Voice Chat with Anybody. That would be a great start.

But since this is Nintendo I'm not expecting anything of the sort.

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

Nintendo doesn't care about 23 year olds, it cares about everyone. Which includes grandma not being called a stupid bitch after she kicks arse at Mario Kart. Or allowing my 4 year old to hear you cursing your balls off.

You can still have human intelligence without hearing or speaking to people. 16 rated games fine, it's upto the developer. Nintendo games? Fraid not.

But if you were being sarcastic, credit to you.

Only on the Wii will you have a Grandma and a 4 Year Old playing online. Plus there is an amazingly complicated invention called "mute".

You say that like familes playing together is a bad thing.

I'm guessing you're one of those gamers that thinks Call of Duty 4 is anything more than a digitized version of playing 'soldiers' when you were little or did you play it for it's fairy tale?

Screw mute, granny doesn't have time to mute when she's just blue shelled your arse and taken first position.

I hope you realize that quoting specific sentences doesn't work if you're going to be lazy about it. Nintendo does care about me, I buy their products. If grandma is called a stupid bitch, she can mute the person or report them (assuming this is an online service like Playstation Network or Xbox Live). It's similar for the 4 year old. So here's an idea. Instead of not making features for the benefit of some and the dismay of others, why not give an option? You can mute everyone you meet if you wish, and not listen to what they say. That way, your poor 4 year old (because we all know 4 year old kids should be playing games online and have never heard curse words before) won't have his delicate ears hurt, nor should grandma have to experience someone cursing at her. But instead of providing an option, there's just nothing at all. Maybe I'd like to add people with common games and/or interests on Xbox Live, people I talked to that seem like cool people, or people that are generally just fun to play with. That's why services like Xbox Live and Playstation Network are so popular, and why Nintendo's online service continues to lag behind. It helps to have voice chat when I want to discuss strategies with other people or converse. It doesn't make me or anyone else a pedophile. If your child is playing online, it's your responsibility to keep them protected. Mute other players, and warn them against pedophiles. If you're really arguing that Nintendo shouldn't offer great features that the competitors are offering just to protect people ('cuz, you know, there's no such thing as swear words and pedophiles on the internet) then surely you're joking.

tl dr but I can guess. "Me, me me, the hardcore gamer, what about me"

How about we don't talk to random people and add them to our 'FRIENDS' list. How about we add REAL FRIENDS who we know. If granny wants to add her foul mouthed friend to her friends list thats fine.

It's like dropping the F-bomb in Star Wars and saying 'you could have muted'.

Man, you're really annoying. You don't read what I write, but just stereotype what little you read (which I guess is nothing) on an insult. And what are you, the typical obnoxious Nintendo fanboy? Oh please. If you really think that we shouldn't add people to our friend's list if we don't actually know them in real life, you completely missed the concept of the internet. Go back a decade or two and take lessons. The internet allows us to interact with people across the world, regardless of whether or not we know them. That's the beauty of it. Services like Xbox Live run on the internet, and thus, they allow this feature. It's a marvelous concept, this internet.

By the way, that has got to be the worst comparison ever. For one thing, there are ratings. If Star Wars was rated R and was labeled as having Explicit Language, maybe you'd have a case. However, the ratings often tell you what to expect. You're not going to see swear words in Star Wars because it's always been a series that kids can enjoy. That's not the same as a videogame that lets you play online. Not even close. And you know it.

But I probably shouldn't bother. You're just going to put your fingers in your ears again and say something similar to the first line. Enjoy that then.

Thanks Montanna you make my point for me.

What's Mario Kart's rating?

Should any game that allows online chat with strangers have a rating less than 'may contain explicit language'?