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Reggie Describes Vision For Wii U Online

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by Joe Juba on July 05, 2011 at 12:58 PM
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has already said that the company's goal with Wii U is not to dominate the online market. However, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime admits that a good online strategy is important.

In an interview with Forbes, Fils-Aime explains that while offering an Xbox Live-style experience isn't the idea, Nintendo is working to improve its online approach:

We’ve seen what our competitors have done, and we’ve acknowledged that we need to do more online, starting with the launch of our eShop on Nintendo 3DS, and we’re going to continue to build our online capability. For Wii U, we’re going to take that one step further, and what we’re doing is creating a much more flexible system that will allow the best approaches by independent publishers to come to bear. So instead of a situation where a publisher has their own network and wants that to be the predominant platform, and having arguments with platform holders, we’re going to welcome that. We’re going to welcome that from the best and the brightest of the third party publishers.

At least Nintendo seems to be giving due consideration to Wii U's online service, which is more than can be said for the company's previous consoles. Check out the full interview to read more of Fils-Aime's thoughts on topics like the 3DS and Netflix.

[Source: Forbes]

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  • by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:11 PM

    They were sounding so promising on the third-party front... to ignore the online problem again from a financial perspective would be to shoot themselves in the foot.

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:14 PM
    Somehow I doubt Nintendo will re-capture its glory days of domination, who knows though if they steer the ship right they might get there. Heres to hoping!
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:15 PM
    Providing demos and possibly betas(Mario Kart multiplayer, Smash Bros. multi) this time around would be a step in the right direction.
  • by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:15 PM
    Ugh i hate this guy. Every time I see him I want to punch him in his stupid face.
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:18 PM
    I personally do not care much about online play in a nintendo console.Let's face it we don't play Ninti's consoles for Call of Duty or Battlefield,we play them for Zelda,Mario,Metroid,DK,etc.,which are mostly single player games excluding things like smash bro and mario kart.Personally I love to see some third party support for the new console but as long as their exclusives keep being good I'm sold.

    EDIT:Is it me or does Reggie's pic looks funny?
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:21 PM
    Anyone else think of Bobby Kotick when you saw that picture?
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:21 PM

    I love that picture of him, like he should be stamped onto a dollar bill or something x.x

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:22 PM
    my body. . .my body is ready
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:24 PM

    i just want to be able to talk to ppl online, invite my friends into lobbies/parties, and being able to roam around the wii u eshop without any hassle that shouldnt b that hard right?

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:25 PM
    I have very little faith in Wii U's ability online.
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:30 PM
    Nintendo will always dominate the market thanks to stupid parents and their dumb children. Nintendo is truly garbage in my opinion.
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:31 PM
    I just don't get how Nintendo can claim to want the hardcore back, but still be so up-front about having an inferior online service. I know it's still early days, but they better go far beyond improving their e-shop.
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:32 PM

    I'm I  the only one wanting a User content generated(aside from the boss fights?) New Super Mario Bros. game?

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:32 PM
    No clue why people hate nintendo when they try and cater to everyone instead of just the casual for once. Nintendo is still around because they're capable, I don't think the people who brought us zelda are complete garbage.
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:33 PM

    while good for 3rd party games what about 1st party i love playing mario kart with family but over the years there online sits up worse n worse each time we try  3 wiis trying to meet up in either worldwide or regional just doesn't work anymore can't even get 2 races together without getting kicked

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:35 PM

    Nintendo is to consoles what Japanese developers are to video games...about 5 years behind.

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:36 PM
    All this says to me is Nintendo does not want to do any work, and will instead leave all the work to the developers and publishers to handle. Wow. I guess they really did not learn. I thought they wanted to get the core audiences here, but everything they are doing says the opposite.

    "We want the core audience, but we are going to cap our console so it still looks graphically weaker than current gen systems"

    "We want the core audiences, but we are going to continue our half-assed online strategy of not doing anything and letting our competition destroy us"

    "We want the core audiences, but we are not going to announce or show any games, and instead make promises for games that have not even begun development yet"

    "We want the core audiences, so we slapped a big, single touch, touch screen onto our controller that is absolutely archaic compared to other high end devices like the iPad"

    "We want the core audiences, so during E3 we are going to show hi def Wii games, running on the Wii Sports engine, and party game concepts that won't ever actually come to retail...Because that is what core gamers want...high res Wii games..."
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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:36 PM
    Trophies / Achievements / Other Online endabled comparison of game progress?
  • by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:37 PM

    I think they can dominate the online market. Nintendo WFC already has a lot of potential as we've seen with Mario Kart, Smash Bros.,and Pokemon. They just have very few games that utilize it.

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    by Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 01:38 PM
    I think nintendo knows how to succeed. Release their consoles before the competitors and dont try to please anyone older than 14. And wii u itself is just not something that interests me in the slightest. I dont want to seem like a troll but why would i buy this and not keep my ps3 or xbox or wii( if i had all three).
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