Nintendo’s Iwata: Wii U Online Structure To Be Flexible To Dev

[CamulaHikari]

“I think, in general, the online environment is changing quite rapidly,” Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, stated to analysts at a recent Q&A, following the reveal of his company’s Wii U system. Iwata was fielding a question regarding Nintendo’s approach to online infrastructure with the new console.

“So, what I have come to feel lately is that the idea of saying, "we are going to create this style of online structure and that we would like you, the developers, to fit into the online structure that we are creating" is perhaps already out-of-date,” Iwata continued. “I think that Nintendo’s past console business has often included this idea of a set and fixed online structure.”

The goal for Wii U, then, is to create a more flexible online system, Iwata believes.

“What we found at this point is that, as we discuss the online structure with different publishers, the things that the different publishers want to do are in fact seemingly rather different,” Iwata revealed. “Our current direction is how we can take the desires of the third parties and create a system that’s flexible enough to enable them to do the types of things that they might want to do.”

Nintendo will work with developers to enable functionality like online voice chat and so on, Iwata revealed, but will not force developers that aren’t interested in such features to use them. He also pointed out social networks such as Facebook as a connection that can’t be ignored any longer.

“I think we’ve come to an era where it’s important to consider how the social graph of the social networking services can work in conjunction with something like a video game platform,” Iwata stated, before assuring those in attendance that Nintendo’s new online structure would be both flexible and strong.

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[Nollog]

A whole lot of nothing again.
Nintendo need to straight up say "This is how our online service is work, function, and look like".

 

[Selim873]

Agreed, the Wii's online compatibility was okay, but I thought the friend code thing was stupid, good thing they're ditching that.

 

[Slyakin]

Whoa, so this means that we'll see decent online?

Holy fuck, what happened Nintendo?

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Whoa, so this means that we'll see decent online?

Holy fuck, what happened Nintendo?

About time?

I remember playing Budokai Tenkaichi 3(or whatever DBZ game that was

) on the Wii and online was literally at 10% speed of the game or even worse.
Before I knew it, I lost the match lol.
Not sure if the problem was with ATARI or Nintendo's server. Nevertheless, I hope we dont experience something like that in the next gen

.

 

[KingVamp]

Wow, gaming has became very complicated.

Seriously tho, even I want more info on this.

 

[JoyConG]

It sounds like devs will have tools to make the experience their own in respective games..

But I want to hear about the Hub, and what Nintendo is doing to make some quality online for once

 

[Rydian]

A whole lot of nothing again.Actually they gave some very good news.

QUOTE(Nollog @ Jun 15 2011, 10:44 AM) Nintendo need to straight up say "This is how our online service is work, function, and look like".

Did you read the article? It was stating that there won't be any single rigid look and feel, that the online portions of games will be customizable as the devs see fit.

 

[Nollog]

A whole lot of nothing again.Actually they gave some very good news.

QUOTE(Nollog @ Jun 15 2011, 10:44 AM) Nintendo need to straight up say "This is how our online service is work, function, and look like".

Did you read the article? It was stating that there won't be any single rigid look and feel, that the online portions of games will be customizable as the devs see fit.

And that's why it's a whole lot of nothing.

 

[Kuschel-Drow]

I'd appreciate REAL online play... Not only 4 people or nosense like that.
I mean the PS had been able to handle real MMO's ages ago, so it's about time Ninty comes up with better online play...

 

[OmegaVesko]

I'd appreciate REAL online play... Not only 4 people or nosense like that.
I mean the PS had been able to handle real MMO's ages ago, so it's about time Ninty comes up with better online play...

The Wii could always support more the 4 players online. See: Goldeneye, CoD: Modern Warfare Reflex, Conduit, Conduit 2

 

[Clydefrosch]

I guess it would be for the better

though, after the first Wii-U child abduction/[censored] case, we will never hear the end of it.

 

[comaX]

All of that seems very fine, but please, keep the "social networks" out of it. Really.

 

[libertas34]

Giving flexibility to developers... that's the way to go. Also, don't be a Sony.

 

[Midna]

I'd appreciate REAL online play... Not only 4 people or nosense like that.
I mean the PS had been able to handle real MMO's ages ago, so it's about time Ninty comes up with better online play...

The Wii could always support more the 4 players online. See: Goldeneye, CoD: Modern Warfare Reflex, Conduit, Conduit 2

Er, um, Mario Kart maybe?

I think Kuschel is thinking specifically of SSBB with no other examples in mind. That game only supported 4 players anyway. Online was not part of that limitation. What are you thinking..?

 

[KingVamp]

I'd appreciate REAL online play... Not only 4 people or nosense like that.
I mean the PS had been able to handle real MMO's ages ago, so it's about time Ninty comes up with better online play...

The Wii could always support more the 4 players online. See: Goldeneye, CoD: Modern Warfare Reflex, Conduit, Conduit 2

Er, um, Mario Kart maybe?

I think Kuschel is thinking specifically of SSBB with no other examples in mind. That game only supported 4 players anyway. Online was not part of that limitation. What are you thinking..?

Just give me a thought to 8 characters SSB battle. That would be crazy.

 

[Rydian]

And that's why it's a whole lot of nothing.

It's news that it's going to be different than how the previous console did it (which people disliked).

 

[purplesludge]

It seems like this could work but if it doesn't Nintendo can blame someone else.

 

[Rydian]

It seems like this could work but if it doesn't Nintendo can blame someone else.

Nintendo's the company that admitted that shitty games don't sell because of piracy, but because they're shitty.

This isn't Sony we're talking about.

 

[sonicsmash2]

It seems Ninty want to target Experienced Gamers (Mostly) with WiiU, while it still is a family console, Online capability was the main downside for quite alot of us. (Lag)
Lets hope this shoots correctly.