A wii question
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Not easily. First, you have to find your Friend Code in your address book, and then get your friends'. Once you have both added each other to your address books, you'll be able to message back and forth.
This does NOT carry over into individual games, as each game will have a separate friend code where you will each have to register each other. IE, to play a friend in Mario Kart, first you register your systems as friends, then you register the games as friends, then you can play a slightly less laggy online game together with no voice or text chat.
I love me some Wii, I have a ton of fun with it, and it's great at in-room multiplayer... but the online system is a broken joke... and Nintendo's complete refusal to explain or change it is infuriating.
This does NOT carry over into individual games, as each game will have a separate friend code where you will each have to register each other. IE, to play a friend in Mario Kart, first you register your systems as friends, then you register the games as friends, then you can play a slightly less laggy online game together with no voice or text chat.
I love me some Wii, I have a ton of fun with it, and it's great at in-room multiplayer... but the online system is a broken joke... and Nintendo's complete refusal to explain or change it is infuriating.
More and more games are letting you send friend requests to each other using your system's friend code. Mario Kart was the first, though I know you can also do it in The Conduit.
It would be impossible for them to change it, the operating system doesn't work like the PS3 or 360. If they made changes now it wouldn't work for any games currently released.
^^ I don't necessarily believe they couldn't change it. The OS is most certainly upgradeable allowing major changes that doesn't break existing software (i.e, the long overdue OS4 that included the SD Card Channel).
Also, there are things they could do without a major rewrite. For example make it required that all new online games use the system's friend code, and support the Wii Speak channel.
Basically, rather than just have Reggie sit up on the dais at every trade show and gloat about how many systems they've sold, I'd like them to just... admit the online system was a misjudgement. Admit they erred too far on the side of caution with the friend code system and take even a token step or two to simplify and open the Wii's online experience. You know, give us hope with the Wii 2 or the WiiHD or whatever the next hardware iteration is called things will be genuinely fixed.
Also, there are things they could do without a major rewrite. For example make it required that all new online games use the system's friend code, and support the Wii Speak channel.
Basically, rather than just have Reggie sit up on the dais at every trade show and gloat about how many systems they've sold, I'd like them to just... admit the online system was a misjudgement. Admit they erred too far on the side of caution with the friend code system and take even a token step or two to simplify and open the Wii's online experience. You know, give us hope with the Wii 2 or the WiiHD or whatever the next hardware iteration is called things will be genuinely fixed.
Based on everything I've read about the Wii OS it can't really interact with games all that much, even the home menu is stored on the disk (you can see an example of this in Boom Blox, instead of the normal black background there's a picture).
Most of the stuff related to the online system in individual games are on the disks, this can also be seen with newer online games having more features that were never incorporated into older games (things like being able to send invites to your system friends starting with Mario Kart, and of course Wii Speak).
I agree that Nintendo should change up their online system for their next console, but I just don't think it's possible for them to do any major changes on anything but the unreleased games, and I just don't see them doing that.
