Wii U Bids Farewell to Friend Codes?

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It looks like Nintendo is starting to embrace modernity with the Wii U, with some outlets reporting that they're ditching the Friend Code system that's plagued their online capable consoles, replacing them with a single, online identify.

MTV Multiplayer heard the news from Ubisoft in an interview regarding Ghost Recon Online's Wii U demo. However, our understanding of the live blog coverage was that the personalised accounts feature was merely for Ubisoft's game, as they repeatedly told attendees that they couldn't answer questions about Nintendo's system-wide online plans.

There aren't many more details at the moment, but we can all still cross our fingers and hope, because it's about time Nintendo got on board the modern online play bandwagon.

Reader Comments:

Posted by nshady 09/06/2011 12:54pm

I'm not sure where this info has come from. I was reading live blogs of the information and all Ubisoft ever said was it's up to Nintendo. They were talking about what Ghost Recon would have - personal accounts - but not necessarily that they were system wide.

Posted by Ant292 09/06/2011 1:00pm

Makes sense. I personally don't see Nintendo doing this, and even if they did, I assume it'll will be miles behind what Microsoft and Sony have done with their respective systems.

Posted by nshady 09/06/2011 1:03pm

That said the 3DS has a system wide account so I expect it will happen. You trade codes once and then it's paired with friends for life. Similar will occur with the Wii U - and you might even be notified by a noise or something from the controller that someone's online. The news just hasn't come out yet.