Nintendo teams up with GameSpy again for multiplayer Wii
(via engadget)
If you’ve participated in an online game with your Nintendo DS, you’ve already enjoyed the fruits of this partnership, since GameSpy powered Nintendo’s first major foray into online matches, but it looks like Nintendo and GameSpy are about to take things up a notch with the Wii. The pair have just announced that GameSpy middleware will power the multiplayer aspects of online Wii games, with current Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection features at first, but eventually friend rosters, matchmaking and ranking at last. It ain’t no PlayStation Home, but it looks like Nintendo is finally ready to start seriously chasing online gamers. Pokémon Battle Revolution will kick things off on June 25.
Finally, some good news. *chuckle*
have you added my wii?
I did! can you give me your wii number again? I must have mis typed it.
8691-1719-5077-6136
I have put it in my profile too.
As long as I do not have to add another Friend code outside of the Wii System Code, I’m good to go. If I have to hassle with more friend codes for each game, I’m going to be aggravated.
For sure. Hopefully their “friend rosters” comment will mean that we’ve just got one way to identify friends. A part of me looks at the online system they’re working with now and worries that the back-end is going to be impossible to bring around.
They’d have to build a completely different channel from the mii channel in order to work with friends the way we’d like – think about how insulated it is from other systems. Those miis aren’t automatically updated when people change them, they’re just tokens to be pushed around.
Battalion Wars 2 and Mario Strikers 2 are also supposed to be online playable whenever the hell they come out :D
I want more deets on Metroid, dammit. I’ve soaked up all there is to soak up, watched all the videos there are to watch – I want more cold hard facts!
Let’s not forget the next Smash Brothers game, either.