Posts Tagged ‘nintendo’
July 15th, 2008
As a big fan of the Nintendo Wii I just happened to spot an interesting headline on one of my RSS feeds:
GoNintendo live-blog - Nintendo E3 media briefing
Once I had clicked through, i was greeted by the following message: “This post will sit on the front page, inactive, until the show begins. As long as I can get a wireless signal, I will be providing updates to this post. If I cannot get a signal, Deux Michaels will handle this section. I will update you on the situation as the event nears its start.”
Two things, first:
I’m all for live blogging, instant comments and reaction to breaking news. Doing this puts your blog on the map and in pole position, it draws the crowd in and turns your site into a goto site for all the latest news.
Secondly:
Good on GoNintendo for trying a different approach to blogging and covering an all important media briefing, it’s certainly an approach I would recommend to our Liberate Media clients.
Are Wii friend codes safe? + Wii Social Networking
May 12th, 2008
So I finally got MarioKart on the Wii and was desperate to test the online gameplay, which I must say is pretty impressive. I was also keen to try out playing online against my friends - the only problem being that I have two friends with the game and they never seem to be online to play…how boring!
So how do I make new friends to play against? The social networking aspect, it appears, hasn’t been as well thought through by Nintendo as I’d expected.
To register friends on the Wii and to play against them online you need their friend code.
This is what Nintendo says about friend codes in its MarioKart Wii instruction manual: “Do not share you friend code with people you do not know, as you may receive tampered data or offensive messages without your consent.”
If you do a Google search for Wii friend codes you come across loads of friend code swapping forum sites and lists. The most impressive being a site called Mapwii, which is a large Google map that can be used to locate friend codes in your area.
But if Nintendo says these site might not be safe, but I want new friends to play against, what’s a gamer to do?
I was thinking about asking my Twitter followers if they had MarioKart and tweeting my friend code over the web - is that safe?
One alternative is MiiSpace, the idea of which is outlined here, and another is a Facebook application found here, (not officially licensed by Nintendo)
So what about making new friends with the same interests? Surely Nintendo has something in the pipeline?
At the moment you can create a Mii and have a friend code but you can not interact socially, usless you want to risk a forum.
Note for Nintendo to make it easier for people to connect socially!