Misc One Wii friends code per console

[legendofphil]

A page on Nintendo of Europe’s Wii site has confirmed that the Wii will indeed not have a friend code per game as previously thought, but a friend code per system/account!

This is great news as we can now send messages to other users while they’re playing another game, or invite them to play with you. This is a massive leap forward for Nintendo online gamers and we can only hope that they’ll include communication software with the Wii as standard.

More as it breaks!

Update: Since posting it has come to my attention that you will only get one friend code per Wii and not a friend code per account on the Wii.

"If we chose to, we could allow each family member to have their own account. But that just isn't what Wii is about. To give a very straightforward example, we're aiming at a console for everyone to use, but if we allowed everyone to have their own account, you would need to enter a password to use the console. To switch on Wii and be presented with a screen asking for your user name and password...well for me, that would have been unacceptable. In discussions, pretty much everyone agreed on this point"

Source

 

[ryohki]

damn... good idea, I just wish there was still the ability to have multiple accounts

 

[lagman]

Oh, thanks Jeshus.
I was really worried, all the Wii haters have a point less

 

[Sc4rFac3d]

Awesome!

If only they made stuff like lobbies now.

 

[Heran Bago]

Gotta love it!

 

[jhoff80]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but from what I see, the original article doesn't mention friend codes at all.

 

[DrKupo]

How is this good news?

 

[Bowser128]

How is this good news?

It's good news because instead of pissing about with 20 different friend codes to pass on (a la DS), you will only have to give out one. Seems pretty obvious to me.

 

[lagman]

Awesome!

If only they made stuff like lobbies now.

There´s gonna be lobbies. You create a character on your wii and interact with other´s persons characters.

right?

 

[shaunj66]

This really is fantastic news.

Hopefully you can have multiple friend codes per console (room mates, friends etc...). Maybe one is assigned per Mii, ie. per Wii-mote?

But am I the only one that CAN'T find this supposed information on the micro site?

 

[GameDragon]

Awesome!

If only they made stuff like lobbies now.

There´s gonna be lobbies. You create a character on your wii and interact with other´s persons characters.

right?

Not really, the Mii don't interact with other Mii as far as I can see. I could be wrong though.

 

[lagman]

I´m almost sure I saw it on the 1up show. I´ll search it.

I put it on you tube;

Mii Creation

They don´t mention any interaction but there´s others Miis...

 

[Heran Bago]

I´m almost sure I saw it on the 1up show. I´ll search it.

I put it on you tube;

Mii Creation

They don´t mention any interaction but there´s others Miis...

Just because you can make multiple Mii doesn't mean you can take them online, much ess communicate with people you're playing with/against online.

 

[Covarr]

They may add online Mii interaction later on. They already said you can store your Mii in the Wiimote to interact with somebody else's Miis.

 

[jumpman17]

Great, nothing like having you little sister hop online to screw over your Mario Kart record.

 

[lagman]

Iwata ask!

.........
Iwata And of course, making these characters is not the end. These Mii characters can then appear in games, for instance Wii Sports.

Nogami That's right. As I mentioned earlier, from the very start of this software's development, we wanted to allow the characters created by users to appear in the games. In fact, as long as the software developers make the games compatible with the Mii system, these characters will also be able to appear in the games they produce. One more interesting thing is that the Mii characters do not always feature as the main characters in the games. You can also find them popping up as faces in the crowd. For instance, in Wii Sports, a Mii you made a while ago and had forgotten about might turn up one day in the spectators' seats. Also, since you can store Mii on your Wii Remote, you can bring your Mii to use on your friend's Wii!

Iwata There is also the "Mii Parade" to look forward to. Could you please explain that?

Nogami To put it simply, Mii Parade is a system that uses the network to allow Mii characters created by many people to mix and mingle. You can line up Mii characters in the "Mii Plaza", but at the start the only Mii characters you will find are those you have created yourself. Over time, however, using the WiiConnect24 system, other users' Mii characters can come and visit. In the same way, your Mii can make an appearance on someone else's Wii, although this won't happen unless the user has authorised it. The user can choose whether or not to allow their Mii to come and go on the network, so the only Mii characters that will appear on someone else's Wii are those where the user has permitted it.

Iwata You could have a Mii which has come from the other side of the world!

Nogami You could. Your Mii can pop up anywhere. I should point out, though, that your Mii will never go missing from your own Wii.

Iwata This is a very ambitious experiment. What made you decide to attempt it?


Nogami We always had the intention of allowing the characters created for one game to appear as guests in other games. However, the decision to allow the interaction of Mii characters across the world was inspired by WiiConnect24. Personally, I am a really big fan of that kind of feature. I came up with this particular idea while I was thinking how WiiConnect24 might be used with the Mii concept. The most basic motivation was the belief that, however fun it may be to make your own characters, there is a limit to how enjoyable it can be when just one player is involved. I thought it would be a shame if people stopped using the Mii Channel once they had created, let's say, 10 look-alike characters of their friends and family. However, if more and more Mii characters from users they had played games with, or from anywhere else around the world appear on Wii, I think this will make people want to create new Mii characters. They might get ideas from other people and think: "Wow, you can make a Mii like that!" Then they will try to improve their own Mii. I think people will be continuously motivated through this interaction with other users. How can I put it...? I think there is a limit to the amount of this kind of motivation and inspiration which can be put within actual games from the start. But if, for instance, a user finds a new way to play a game, they can then let other users know about it. In this way, there will be an endless supply of ideas being generated from all over the world, and I hope that this energy will build on itself. That's exactly the reason why we made so much effort to create a system which allowed data to be transferred between Wii consoles.
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Source and full interview: Here

Sounds fine, but I think Nintendo have some bigger surprise

 

[Deleted User]

One friend code per console. Sounds a bit like a static IP to me, well the same sort of thing. Hopefully they can't or won't be banning people from the servers. I'd hate to get banned in one game because of some whining kid who can't play and not be able to play a different game.