Unified online. One code that defines the Wii and can link every game you play with friends you added directly on the Wii menu.

I don't play online so I don't care much, but it would be great if you only needed your friend code, or could make some kind of account. A Wii chat would be great, or a Mii MMO.

Actually there's a Wii chat, the Wii Speak, but the technology is really unused because online is not Nintendo's priority. I can understand too that they are too busy about creating games. Remember that they have to create games both Wii and DS. Remember that when they failed, their financial will suffer. If only they had third party support...

Everybody will say yes, but I think it's a double edged sword.

Until we find a way where people won't rely on anonymity to degrade the experience for most people, I'm not sure it's such a great thing. Also, it's really good when you're really friends with everybody you play with. If you make it too easy, most people will just not care.

On youtube I've seen people who have hundreds, sometimes throusands of people on their friends list. They don't know hardly anybody there probably, and they don't care or value it. Maybe if they didn't have that ability, to give themselves a false sense of friendship they'd spend more real time with people that care about them like their family for instance. The Wii is great to play with family and friends for this reason also, if that option was simply considered to be secondary many games wouldn't put emphasys on it. Playing with real people is something you need some encouragement to do.

I will accept a nintendo live account any day they offer me one, nintendo's unique on-line service.

I'm not entirely sure what your point is. Yes, anonymity makes some people act like idiots. The thing is, the more established online systems allow you to choose who you want to play with. They are better for getting online easily, connecting with your friends, dealing with cheaters and griefers, and as a whole are superior to the Wii's online system. I agree about gaming with close friends, but clearly if you want there are ways to play online with people you don't know in real life and still enjoy yourself.

Of course the person with hundreds or thousands of people on their friends list will contain few if any real life friends. A friends list with 100 or more people on it I would guess is comprised of people that person enjoyed playing with and would want to play with again. Nothing more, nothing less. They aren't friends in the real life sense, maybe gamer friends is more accurate.

Or you simply do not understand the perspective. It is that we don't care about the online set-up. I have a 360, and the thought ofplaying online is just as foreign to me on it as anywhere else. I simply do not care to play against people over the internet in 99% of games. It just isn't fun for me. I honestly find equal value in both systems online based on my personal usage of them.

No. XBL is where I do my online gaming.... and it's awesome! I just hope when Monster Hunter on Wii comes out it doesn't bother me too much.

Well Monster Hunter Tri doesn't have friend codes for starters. It also supports keyboard and plans are for voice chat. So it is one of the more featured wii games in that aspect.

I don't think anyone likes the friend code system.