This is what I've been thinking

I personally think Nintendo should keep the Friend Code System, but split up online experiences. What I mean is that, it should be chosen in the Parental Control a level of communication throughout Wi-Fi, like having the choice to use friend codes or not, being able to use voice chat, text messaging, etc. That way concerned parents could restrict their kids' exposure on Wi-Fi, but other people who don't care about it would be able to experience Wi-Fi to its fullest. If friend codes are disabled, players will be able to add others just by a simple prompt like "Add player to friends list." With the new voice chat peripheral(sp), it could be toggled to allow full-blown ingame voice chat. For text communications, I'd suggest that Nintendo should update their Wii-bulletin thing to send and recieve messages in real time (opposed to taking over a few minutes), and allow developers to have some kind of ingame messaging system (like Medal of Honor: Heroes 2). Inclusion of a "Messages" button when the home button is, and support for separate profiles would be nice too. ...and so on. My $0.02

That's actually a good idea

But Nintendo likes to treat all their fans like young children. For example, by making ONLY kiddie games. The friend code system is retarded. It's not even laziness on Nintendo's part, but rather stupid decision making. I'd rather refer to my online friends as a name they thought of rather than some abstract code to memorize. I've heard lots of good ideas to improve the Wii (and come up with my own), but they all fall on deaf ears at Nintendo. Wii's sell, so they don't care.

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Hello mister clueless. "But Nintendo likes to treat all their fans like young children. For example, by making ONLY kiddie games." How about Manhunt 2 being published on the Wii. Is that a kiddie game? Is Metroid Prime 3: Corruption a kiddie game? Well, ok, MP3:C isn't Gears of War, but then again it sure isn't Mario. You harp on Nintendo so much without giving them credit for the changes they've made over the past 20 years. Here's my idea of the perfect Friend Code system. One code per user. I don't care that I would have to exchange that one code with someone else and get their code, so long as I don't have to exchange a code for every damn game I buy with everyone I want to play with. Oh sure, the current system is secure all right, but only because people are to frustrated with having to trade codes multiple times for every game they want to play. I don't even bother buying WiFi compatable game for the Wii. There's no point since the only other person I know with a Wii is my brother. It's just not fun to play with or against the same one person all the time.

It's just laziness.....

If your kids are smart enough to use freind codes, they can easily go on the internet and find random people who post their friend codes online in forums and such. And who's to say that talking to a random person online is any safer than your child talking to their friends? You should hear the language and topics that come out of their mouths these days. In my opinion, friends can be more dangerous than anyone. Why not implement a parental control system for the Wii(maybe with the ability to turn on or off voice/text chat)? That way, parents can monitor who can contact their children. Too much effort on your part to manage it? Tough! You're a parent. You should know what your kids are doing, what their devices are capable of (cell phone, PC, etc.), and who they keep in contact with. Get involved.

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It's not just about finding codes, the other party actually has to receive your code too. There are sites that allow you to hook up with people and trade codes. You're absolutely right though, trading codes with a stranger on a code sharing site isn't any safer than not having codes at all, which is why the Friend Code system is just a glorified speed bump. As for parental controlls, the Wii has this. Parents can already disable the use of messaging. The problem is that parents need to be aware enough and RTFM. This is really the ongoing problem as I see it, parents who are too lazy or don't care enough to use the tools given to them to keep children safe. That's most of the problem with movie and video game ratings, parents don't pay attention.

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Manhunt 2 was a PS2 port, as are many games. A very BAD game, and not appealing to many people. Resident Evil 4 was a port also. The point is there's no actual effort in making adult games. Well, not much effort put into the kiddie games either.

@MCS

Yeah, well who gives a f*ck what you think anyway?

good idea

i have kids too but i dont bother with friend codes and wont. it basically means talking to people on pc forums or trawling websites to find codes of people you have never spoken to. the wii voice chat thing will help in obtaining wii frcodes, but that's when it has widespread games support. i think nintendo is killing it's wifi connect service by using friend codes. and lazyboy's open adult service and perental control is a great idea for MII and MII girlfreind and kids to experience online chat at an appropriate level. Freind codes for kids, open for adults it's a couple of settings changes i prefer lazyboy256's wifi service it sounds much better, the ds wifi is the same, cant find anybody playing anything except nintendo's online games and DS freindcodes and lack of comunnication makes it difficult to obtain codes so we dont use that either my girl doesn't play online cuz she says it's crap she deosn't know how to make freinds.except the long way. so please open wii online up and sideline freindcodes as a choice for parents to make to protect there kids. they can trade them at school like a phone number. instead of thinking you know best what all parent's want

one per kid like a phone number

would be much better way of doing it to protect kids, they can give it to who they want. adult's have a open arena that would be much better to play online games. i bought the wii hoping that 3rd party company's will bring some GREAT FPS titles and other types of games MULTIPLAYER RACING (NON MARIO KART) but i fear nintendo will do what it did with the cube and discourage 3rd party games in favour of it's own games.

Wow.

"The point is there's no actual effort in making adult games. Well, not much effort put into the kiddie games either." Evidently there's no effort put into your thoughts.

@MCS

It doesn't matter whether it's a port or not, the fact is that the games mentioned were published and are available for the Wii. They weren't censored, at least not any differently than the originals. Does Nintendo really need to produce an in house M rated title? No. It doesn't make good business sense for them to take a risk on a new IP and artificially limit its audience by making it an M rated game. There really isn't a reason for them to do that when there are plenty of third party developers willing to take the risk and produce M rated properties for them. The fact is, Nintendo has allowed M rated games to be produced for the Wii. They have broken a long standing tradition of denying such games on their systems. If the only thing that makes you happy is for Nintendo to produce a first party M rated title, you are probably not going to get what you want in the near future. What do you care anyway, you hate Nintendo and probably don't own any of their hardware. What's it matter to you?