Miyamoto Excited by Online Possibilities with Wii U and Nintendo 3DS

I don't entirely like nintendos wait and see approach to technology. If every company did this we would still have dial up Internet. Whilst you don't want to do what sega did with the dreamcast and their plans for online play. The wii was the right time to fully adopt Internet play. This time round it feels like they got it right apart from usb3 which I really feel will hurt when people start buying more downloads and they want to quickly access this stuff from hard drives. Time will tell

Miiverse really is one of the best online features (of any console) to be added in the past couple of years.

Now we're starting to see the developers themselves coming onto Miiverse and talking directly with fans.

Nintendo has also been actively making changes and adding new features based on feedback as well.

Hopefully Miiverse gets added to the 3DS soon.

Dude, i completely agree what you're saying about Nintendo's wait and see attitude and yes they should have invested more in online gameplay with the Wii. But it's not just the online that bothers me. Nintendo seems to be "WAITING" on everything else as well. Features that Sony and MS have had for almost a decade still elude the Wii U.  Wii TV but not even a DVD player? No concrete achievement system even though everyone wanted one? An broken account structure that no one else uses? (by this i mean the whole everything you buy is tied to the console and not a "ACCOUNT IDENTITY". I.E if your console gets stolen, burned to ashes, explodes or broken to bits you will be buying every digital purchase you've bought since you had the console again at full price even though Nintendo can easily verify that you bought them legally. That or beg profusely until someone caves in and gives you credit for it.)

Nintendo needs to understand that this whole "WAITING" business is going to get them killed. I hope they do before some real damage is done.  

TNIGHT (guest) said:
I.E if your console gets stolen, burned to ashes, explodes or broken to bits you will be buying every digital purchase you've bought since you had the console again at full price even though Nintendo can easily verify that you bought them legally. That or beg profusely until someone caves in and gives you credit for it.)

erm... no! If something like this would happen, you should contact Nintendo to move all your content of your account onto the new Wii-U you bought to replace the old one - with small proof to customer service to verify, that you aren't a fraud but the real TNIGHT (guest)

meeto_0 said:
I don't entirely like nintendos wait and see approach to technology. If every company did this we would still have dial up Internet.

Yes and not. You are right when it comes to Internet. They struggled with it since Gamecube.
But when it comes to all the rest, they included digipad when it was ready, they included Wiimote-movement when it was ready, they included 3D-screen when it was practical (would you use 3D-glasses with your 3DS?), they used a second screen in their controller when time was ready for it.
They waited so long for these gameplay gadgets to get it done right and solid. So they are not afraid of the new possibilities. They only use it when they see a reason to do so.
Hell, even kinect is a son of the Wiimote, since it's creator did it with a wiimote-prototype first: