I know what you're thinking -- the Wii has online connectivity? I frequently forget myself, as I don't spend a lot of time waving the Wiimote anyway. Good news for Ninty however: Guitar Hero 3 has people burning up the online connections, scoring 622,580 connections total for the week ending November 4th. This number is only second to Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, which generated a brain-blowing 1,455,526 connections.
You know what I would like, Nintendo? What I would really, really like? For you to shut the hell up about your console's sales power and focus more energy on the online system. Thanks to Xbox Live, I play my Xbox every day, socialize with my friends, and enjoy online gaming with them as well. Maybe a bit more effort in this department would make more bored gamers wipe the layer of dust off their Wiis and enjoy them similarly. Just a thought.
Hit the jump for a list of official figures (Via NeoGaf.)
[Via Computer and Video Games - Thanks Adam!]
- [NDS] Pokemon Diamond & Pearl - 1,455,526 connections*
- [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 622,580 connections
- [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 268,796 connections
- [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 242,202 connections
- [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 155,239 connections
- [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 154,945 connections
- [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 126,388 connections
- [WII] Pokemon Battle Revolution - 88,287 connections
- [NDS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami no Tankentai - 86,818 connections**
- [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 86,588 connections
* Pokemon Diamond - 860,143 | Pokemon Pearl - 595,383
** Pokemon Dungeon Toki - 46,365 | Pokemon Dungeon Yami - 40,453
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11:25 AM on 11.08.2007
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Stupid Wii. Stupid impulse purchase made solely based on the fact Best Buy had one in stock and not because there were games on it I wanted to play. Stupid me.
My 360 and PC are mainly for single player and online play. I don't really see the complaints here. Nintendo is shooting for something different, if you don't like what they're shooting for then don't follow the product, they aren't going to change course for you.
Besides, Smash Bros. Brawl is online and that is all that really matters.
Click that link and then agree with me. Make a Wiimote Controlled FPS, by Nintendo. Surely they could get the game mechanics right, just let somebody else handle the art design and shit. This way, we end up with an awesome mature shooting game, filled with blood. Please?
I definitely agree here. Nintendo should make a multi-player focused FPS and use it to get some more of the hardcore faithful online. After all, didn't Miyamoto say he could make a Halo?
Click that link and then agree with me. Make a Wiimote Controlled FPS, by Nintendo. Surely they could get the game mechanics right, just let somebody else handle the art design and shit. This way, we end up with an awesome mature shooting game, filled with blood. Please?
And no, I don't like friend codes either but if you want a premier online experience you only have two options, the PC (best overall) and the 360 (best console).
Anyway, I agree with Colette, the fact that I might find some friends online to play with is enough reason for me to turn on the 360 instead of the Wii when i get home.
They haven't even announced any plans to ever have any type of voice chat that I know of, and if they ever do have it, you'll probably only be able to talk to people that you exchange friend codes with.
You must be new.
Dtoid has never been a Wii Fan.
Don't get me wrong you dont have to have friend codes to play online but it makes a social experience so impersonal and really that is against what it stands for. I do understand they dont want people on Mario Kart cursing like sailors cause trust me you get hit with a blue shell a foot from the finish only to lose and there will be a torrent of explicitives.
I do think some games should have open voice chat though cause really a M rated game and Many T rating game what could be said that goes beyond the rating. Well maybe I shouldn't put people up to the challange I retract that last statement.
Your comment just reeks of "these guys are all nerds with to much time on their hands thus they hate the Wii"
@Mogambi
Yes, because its simply impossible that people just don't like the Wii, they must be jumping on the bandwagon.
The Wii is the biggest enigma in gaming, it has nothing going for it and all its got in the future are sequels, yet the machine sells like nothing else, I for one think it won't last.
Its plagued by the same issues the cube had, huge drought between good games, amazing 3rd party gems that get ignored and really shitty games that sell like crazy.
Even though I don't like it, online is the future, and friends are a joke, I actually burst out in laughter when someone who bought the Wii edition asked who wanted to play against him and typed out his 12 digit friend code, its so stupid, and as D-Toid already showed, they can stop people from cursing but not from guys having names like Skullfckr and the like.
Nintendo is stubborn and arrogant and they are riding high right now, they won't be changing friend codes anytime soon, and hope of a really awesome FPS is just something that will never happen.
Thanks for the snap judgment, an internet classic. I just don't freakin' get it with people who hate the Wii. Nothing going for it? Are you people serious? I just don't understand how Zelda, Super Paper Mario, Warioware, Wii Sports, Metroid Prime 3 and various others aren't enough. I agree that Nintendo needs to further develop their online setup, but I seriously love playing with people in the same room. And, I know I might be alone in this, but I rarely have good fortune with people talking online.
Sorry if I came off as "these guys are all nerds with too much time on their hands thus they hate the Wii". I love games and play a lot. I just fail to see how you could run out of games to play on the 360 and not the Wii. A lot of people do come off as being part of the Wii hate bandwagon. Nintendo always has to deal with this opposition. It's ridiculous.
What I would give for voice chat... at least Wii has real online capabilities unlike GCN.
As more Wii games go online in 08' it should get better.
Maybe you just hate me. :(
As more Wii games go online in 08' it should get better.