Wii online gaming: No unified gamertags?

Posted Mar 14, 2007 at 2:44PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii Tags: Falafel, Nintendo

Several hours ago, GameSpy has announced that in line with their partnership with Nintendo, they would be providing game developers for the Nintendo Wii with their online gaming services. This was welcome news during the report, and Falafelkid from Nintendo Revolution blogs just got off the horn with GameSpy for new details regarding the new Wii online service. As the company said to Falafelkid during the inquiry:

GameSpy's technology does allow for features that could span multiple games. With the Nintendo Wii, however, the multiplayer features are title-specific.

GameSpy further said that the aside from multiplayer gaming, each game's friend's list would also be title-specific, which basically means that (as Falafel kid has put it) "If I have a friend roster in one game, that roster will not be available to me in any other game. I have to build up an entirely new list for each title". This announcement also applies to Pokemon: Battle Revolution, which will be the first to make use of the Wii's WiFi technology.

Considering that the Wii already has an established online community by way of the Miis, the decision to make friends lists game-specific is coming off as rather strange. Just keep in touch in case we pick up more details on this new detail.

Via Nintendo Revolution

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Comments

# Why? — Guest 2007-03-14 10:03

Why does Nintendo do this? A different code for each game?!!!? It is the same on the DS and a royal pain in the @ss. Outside of me just whinning about this, is there an actual reason for this practice.

# Online Speculation — Guest 2007-03-14 10:06

That is some goooooooooooood newsFinaly concrete development.

Oh and btw nothing todo with this news....mario galaxy will have 2 player. Proving Nintendo pushes back games for good reasons

# good o bood — Guest 2007-03-14 11:05

gamespy is a very trusted company but when i used it for civ 4 it had many problems.

First game that used it i thought was a virus

# Gamespy+Virus — Guest 2007-03-14 11:11

You are not the only one. Happened to me, but with a name like Gamespy and a firewall pop-up. That was so long ago thought.

Hey have you seen new trailer of Team Fortress 2? All cell shaded and *****. I'm kind of dissapointed.

# Nintendo... — Shatterdome 2007-03-14 11:28

Despite what they say, doesn't really care much about online gaming, and havn't thought this through.

If it holds true, it will be the one with the worst online multiplayer...

# OMG why Wii why — Guest 2007-03-14 11:50

Why do they do this wouldnt it be simpiler to take example from microsoft why do nintendo have to be different

# damn you ninty. — Guest 2007-03-14 12:40

why?

# DUH! — Guest 2007-03-14 12:47

the big N does this because they themselves know they're still a kiddy console (sad as it is 2 admit) and as such they feel they have a responsibility not 2 deliver impressionable young gamers into the hands of eager pedophiles. Gay i know, but whatya gonna do.

# Speculations — Guest 2007-03-14 13:29

There's something I wonder. Do they mean that the online multiplayer is managed by the game and not the console. You know, like on PS2, socom had it's own login and password compared to tony hawk. It won't be a channel where everything is managed.

Anyway, I don't know much about the DS online features and how close this will be. So I'm just throwing speculations.

# Wow..nintendo is *****ing stupid — Guest 2007-03-14 14:42

great way to be mentally challenged nintendo

# who cares — Guest 2007-03-14 19:14

Why do people really care so much anyway? Remember you don't need a friends list to actually play online, you can quite happily jump into a game of smash bros with complete strangers.

So nintendo is different, we all know that, and yes it is a shame you can't just add anyone you want onto a friends list, but get used to it people, no ammount of moaning will change it, just have fun with it, when you start playing games like smash bros online, you won't care

# agree — Guest 2007-03-15 00:33

i agree. besides, all your real friends that you know in person can be easily added to your friends list, which is good. Also, if people have problems with kids looking at porn and what not on the wii, just imagine when they have a bunch of pedifiles on their friend list...it someways this online thing sucks, in others it is good.

# Example — Guest 2007-03-15 01:12

What if your friend has one game and not another? Or your playing online with complete strangers, but find you make a good team. I think they did this so there wont be clutter, each game has its own list of people you can join up with.

# agree disagree — Guest 2007-03-15 04:32

online dont suck, people like u do with ure lame opinoins

# Nintendo need to grow some balls — Guest 2007-03-15 05:18

Nintendo needs to just give up on trying to save the world from pedaphiles and rapists. They need to realize that there are much better approaches to restricting young kids from playing with adults. They need to stop restricting the quality of their software and understand that if people get too pissed off, even the great nintendo fans will just say go f*** yourself. and suck it up and buy a 360.

# Re: Nintendo need to grow some balls — Guest 2007-03-15 08:09

haha, Have you seen the wii at all, didn%u2019t Nintendo have the balls in bringing such a console that is so totally different to the market. And look at the demand, Nintendo took the risk and it paid off. It%u2019s Sony and Microsoft who should %u2018grow some balls%u2019, after all, they are just going down the bigger controller and better graphics route, where as Nintendo has gone down the small controller and more interactive gameplay route, they had a lot of balls to do that.

And I am sure that with the next consoles, Nintendo will include Hi-def as prices would have gone down alot (don't forget it was nearly included this time), Sony and Microsoft will also probably include motion sensor gaming as well (sony will of course improve the ***** shking controller that you can only shake), as the wii is such a success, only time will tell. In the mean time, enjoy the wii and the work that Nintendo are doing to get the gaming industry out of the black hole it%u2019s put itself in. The hole that actually came about because of companies going for better graphics and bigger controllers and rising costs.

# WTH? — Guest 2007-03-15 09:51

Ok people, stop complaining. No one really needs to be complaining. We all wanted online, and we didnt care how Nintendo did it, just so they did. Now you wanna ***** about it being diferent. If you havn't noticed, Nintendo has ALWAYS been different. You guys need to lighten up on Nintendo they are doing their best to keep their customers happy. Right now they are focusing on getting consoles out. After they do that THEN they will work on the less important things such as Online play. Just be patient they will work the kinks out themselves. Hey has Nintendo let us down yet. If they have...Then why are you a Nintendo fan? Just wait. You will be fine playing your offline titles.

# GameSpy more like GaySpy — Guest 2007-03-19 02:09

GameSpy has been universally hated for quite some time due to their product carrying adware. It might have gotten better recently but as of two years ago it was crap. I uninstalled it and cursed the earth they walked on after figuring out where all the spyware/adware was coming from (gamespy arcade).

I'm sure the Wii has an API for accessing the address book to find friends wiis. Why they haven't gotten their crap in gear by using that eludes me unless they have no idea what they're doing. Given the track record of the company before, it's most likely due to the fact that they cannot easilly establish who is playing the console and therefor cannot accurately calculate possible ad revenue from loading screens and such. Very likely there will be some process by which people have to "log in" to gamespy.

# ninty r *****n garbage — Guest 2007-03-25 04:34

ninty are liar a$$ pieces of $hit. they make us promises and dont keep them, i dont want ure lambe a$$ *****n exceses. i want online multiplayer 3rd party fps titles u god damn ba$tards.

# Another place to do this — Guest 2007-03-30 09:34

Well.. if we all must..

Well have to go to

http://www.wiipals.net

If we have to its not so bad

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