N-Europe is reporting that Nintendo Europe has confirmed the use of console specific friend codes for online Wii play on their website. N-Europe fails to link to any actually Nintendo page as they claim however. If true, this would be a nice move in lieu of game-specific friend codes for DS’s Wifi that can get cumbersome to manage (read: less usable for gamers).
Here’s to hoping this one is for real.
PS – Infendo Radio #28 has been delayed a bit. Scott and I are going to try and record it later tonight or tomorrow night, so hang tight.
This is great news. I really hope this is true. With all the news coming out, this is the last shadow hanging over the Wii. If they get this sorted, things will be great.
I had a JV football game today. I took my DS and my brothers DS. Two other players brought theirs. It was amazing how many people wanted to play after we started. We were playing multiplayer and it started in the back of the bus but it quickly caught on and everyone wanted to play. I could not believe how even people who want PSPs wanted to play. I think the thing that really caught on was the multiplaying with out everyone needing the game or needing to buy something to play each other. At the end there were about 7 or 8 people who said they want to get a DS now. Most of them are going to try and get one for next week.
I really hope this is true as well. Multiple friend codes would be too much of a problem.
It has to be true: if Nintendo goes with the same system as DS and demand game codes for each game, Xbox LIVE is going to have their Wi-Fi for lunch!
N-Europe and the other sites reporting this have got it totally wrong. If they'd bothered to check they would have realised that in the interview, Iwata was talking about having single user accounts for the Wii's message board system, not online gaming.