Nintendo Wi-fi Connection
Is unprepared and a waste of time.
I always admired Nintendo for there creative genes when it comes to gaming and new features to an old idea. But the Nintendo Wi-fi Connection service is the worst idea I have ever seen.

Okay it’s a good idea, everyone wants to ride and race with Mario characters or play Metroid online. But I would rather a more stable more professional approach to wi-fi rather than a simple disk and a simple idea.

With the Nintendo Wi-fi Connection service you first must have a router or hotspot in reach of you, let’s look at this poll on Nintendo of Australians official site about Wi-fi.
Have you played Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection?
Yes – 30%
No – 14%
I would like to, but dont have access – 50%
What is Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection? – 7%

Looking at these results which I most likely will find a simular set for Europe or even America. Because of poor orionisation on there part to get it working. Nintendo has produced a bad service, it could have been good with more planing but no, Nintendo rushed to the wi-fi scene which it wasn’t inside with the Gamecube era, so no past experiences on what works with wi-fi and what’s a bad idea. Also looking at these results I can tell not many people have access to it, if I voted in that poll today, I would have clicked that bubble and submitted “I would like to, but don’t have access” as the service is so primitive and doesn’t allow me to use certain settings on my server which I want to keep so I can have a secure and fast wireless network for my other devices which don’t complain on such a simple request, for starters you cant have the wireless settings on anything else but WEP and you cant have it to high or to low, and you cant have any secure settings on (well it dose allow you to hide your wireless network but that’s all). Looking at this poll I can also tell due to bad/little advertising the word that Nintendo Wi-fi Connection is available only gets to a limited amount of people.

What also pisses me off is how dam kiddie Nintendo has gone with this service, everywhere you go there’s no communication with the other players, heck even Pictochat is not online yet, when Nintendo has hinted and said countless of times it will come online. They even have talked about possibilities with there online for Pictochat such as say bob wants to play a game, he can click a link and the current online game will check if someone else has it then ask for a game. What I also don’t like is that lack of features with the online games, there’s no extra modes, no creativity in it, no new online only features. There are only things I can find on any service.

If I where to rate this service I will probably rate it about 3.5/10 with the 3.5 being the fast great aspects of the service and the rest nothing. The bad aspects which made me turn my connection off.

This is how I would have done the Nintendo Wi-fi connection service.
Firstly I would have it so there’s a main hub like Nintendo has done, but then for the users side, I would have insert game and play wi-fi I would have it so I would go to the DS’s options and go to a online option which will set online up for my system and any game it would have plugged in. Then I would have it so Pictochat would be online and the game would be online, I would allow people to use Pictochat online and I would give people a universal Nintendo Wi-fi connection account. This way I wouldn’t have to set my connection up every time I want to play new game which uses the service.

Remember, Nintendo was unprepared with this approach, they didn’t even expect the numbers to be so high for the service, but they sadly didn’t deliver much back to the user.

Article by – trinest