Nintendo har inte varit särskilt framstående när det kommer till onlinespelande, och om man får tro en anonym utvecklare i samtal med Eurogamer kan det bero på att cheferna inte känner till vad konkurrenterna håller på med.
Inför lanseringen av Wii U ska den anonyma utvecklaren ha suttit i telefonkonferens med Nintendo när PSN och Xbox Live kom på tal varpå utvecklaren ska ha blivit informerade om att det inte är någon idé att referera till Sony och Microsofts onlinelösningar då ingen av Nintendo-cheferna använder de enheterna.
"We got the chance to talk to some more senior people in Nintendo, via a phone conference, as they were gathering feedback on our development experiences and their toolchain", förklarar källan.
"The discussion started off well enough and covered off our experiences with the hardware and (slow) toolchain and then we steered them towards discussing when the online features might be available. We were told that the features, and the OS updates to support them, would be available before the hardware launch, but only just. There were apparently issues with setting up a large networking infrastructure to rival Sony and Microsoft that they hadn't envisaged."
"This was surprising to hear, as we would have thought that they had plenty of time to work on these features as it had been announced months before, so we probed a little deeper and asked how certain scenarios might work with the Mii friends and networking, all the time referencing how Xbox Live and PSN achieve the same thing. At some point in this conversation we were informed that it was no good referencing Live and PSN as nobody in their development teams used those systems (!) so could we provide more detailed explanations for them?"
I artikeln beskrivs även svårigheterna i att kommunicera med Nintendo genom ett flertal tolkar samt avsaknaden av tredjepartsstöd. Den anonyma utvecklaren förutspår en bister framtid för Wii U.