Wii gets useless Everybody Votes Channel, gamers want online play for Virtual Console classics instead

14 February 2007

Posted by:Ferry

Everybody Votes Channel is the latest addition to the Wii Menu and can be downloaded for free from the Wii Shop Channel under Wii Software. I was reluctant to update with this, because Nintendo should know by now to not throw useless channels at us, but instead spend their time to make updates for all the classic Virtual Console games that have multiplayer to allow additional players to be connected with online. Seriously Nintendo, we all want to be able to play the classics with our buddies from across the globe. Aaaanyway, here’s a video of the Glorified Poll Channel:

I suggest everyone asks Nintendo this question on the Everybody Votes Channel: Do you want to play multiplayer Virtual Console games online with a friend elsewhere?

The official description reads: This latest addition to the Wii Menu features different general poll questions for users to answer. Three questions will always be offered. These will then be closed after a week and updated with new ones. When accessing the main page of the Everybody Votes Channel, users will be greeted with the current polls open and can then register their votes by clicking on their chosen one.

Within hours of the poll closing, the latest regional results of the poll will be made available and will be displayed for each region of the relevant country. Vote ratios for each question will be displayed on the Channel using hundreds of Miis to represent the different votes.

The Suggest a Question section allows players to suggest a poll topic they would like to see on the service. Each player is allowed to make up to one suggestion a day, the best of which may be converted into a poll question by Nintendo. The video walkthrough of the new channel at the top of this page shows all the other small options.

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phrog

As I posted on Digg…

How dare they provide a FREE channel!!!

What a stupid post. This is useless because you want them to completely reprogram every multiplayer VC game to have online play, despite the fact that they’ve said that the purpose is to provide them as originally intended and created? Do you have any idea how much more expensive those titles would be to pay for all that additional programming, not to mention the impossibility of altering games made by who knows how many different developers and creators?

You’re an idiot, and this is dumbass blogger crap.
supadupagama

You would’ve gotten a debate from me, but your insults took any chance of that away. It’s pretty sad you have to lower yourself to looking down on people to make yourself feel good about your opinion. Being narrow minded and taking everything Nintendo says at face value is nothing to be proud of. Hope you have a better day tomorrow.
rjmurill

If they give a tool do something with it. Everybody create poll questions that point toward requesting online games! Dear Nintendo, we would like to play each other online. (yes)
supadupagama

You’re exactly right rjmurill. Then maybe next time we’ll get something that’s actually fun.
Alan

Phrog, though he puts it a little bluntly, is absolutely correct. You’ve spectacularly missed the point, and resorted to the uninformed blogger whine that this site is usually joyously free of. How you can accuse him of being narrow-minded after that particular display of immaturity, I don’t know…
supadupagama

Alan, I see no shame in taking a stand in what I believe is wrong from time to time. Whether, it’s Microsoft not backing their backwards compatibility promise early in 2006, or Sony only allowing PS1 games to be downloaded to a PSP only if you have a PS3 at the end of 2006.

Or now Nintendo, who are already overpricing for classics that make next to no changes to, to actually add more fun to their classics through online play, a feature they could make a standard-for-all solution if they wanted to instead of adding channels as if they were browser plugins.

And for the record, I called Phrog narrow minded because he/she never for a second thought maybe, just maybe, Nintendo didn’t want to devote the resources to updating their classics so they could easily cash in on older gamer’s nostalgia. I’m not suggesting it’s an evil plot, or in the case of the vote channel bad that it’s free, but if they are going to give us the choice, I’d rather it be worthwhile… for example like the Xbox Live Arcade classics you can now play in co-op with a friend online.

At the end of the day I love games as much as the next person and usually go out of my way to find ten positives before commenting on a negative aspect. But while it’s important to focus on the fun, if you want a company to change games for the better like I tried in the above rant, then you’re going to end up saying things people don’t appreciate and that’s ok with me.
Karsten Madsen

You are so right supadupagama.

It could be very cool to play VC games online : )

i tihnk they should add an online gaming channel, for both wii and VC games (if possible) That could be cool ; )