Rumor: 'Major' online Wii game ditching Friend Codes

[wraggster]

Slipped in among the various topics covered in IGN's latest Nintendo Voice Chat podcast was an interesting little rumor: a "major online title" coming to Wii in 2009 won't require Friend Codes. How? Evidently the developer simply realized it could pull it off -- and, like most gamers, doesn't care for the restrictive system.

Speculation as to what game IGN was referencing (which, according to the site, has already been announced) quickly brought up The Conduit, the upcoming FPS from High Voltage Software and Sega. Joystiq has confirmed via a source familiar with the title's development that it does, in fact, utilize the Friend Code system, and isn't the game in question. So, what is it then? Let the speculation commence.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/13/rumor-major-online-wii-game-ditching-friend-codes/

[trugamer]

I'm thinking its probably guaranteed a high age rating, so it doesn't matter if you can talk to anyone online.

Either that or Nintendo don't care about third party games online, or possibly something to do with parental ccontrols.

It could even be simply be it uses the wii friends list on the bulletin board, something which isn't what everyone thinks this means right now (i.e. talk to anybody you play with online) which the Wii should have done out of the box.