NINTENDO LAND FOR WII U SUPPORT MIIVERSE BUT NOT ONLINE PLAY

Nintendo Land for Wii U will support Miiverse but not online play

Nintendo Land was fully revealed atNintendo's Wii U event this past week where mini-game like Metroid Blast showed off five player multiplayer shooting action. Unfortunately, we've learned that willl only be available locally and not online thanks to a recently released interview with Nintendo's Bill Trinen.

Nintendo Land may have the nifty little Nintendo Network logo on its box but that is not meant to imply online play. Instead, the title will make use of things like Miiverse and what are essentially online leaderboards.

"Nintendo Land is not. It's not going to be played over the network," Trinen confirmed with 1up. "There's actually a logical reason for why they decided to do that. I think for... Up until now, basically, when people have said, 'What does a network mean for video gaming?', the answer has always been 'online play'. We look at online play and we think that 

it's important, and obviously for games where it makes sense, we're going to leverage it. But for Wii U launch specifically, one of the things that we want people to understand is that a network connection to a game can mean a lot of different things. It can mean online gaming, but it can also mean other unique ways to connect to other people."

One example of this is the Balloon Trip Breeze mini-game where its already been confirmed that players will use Miiverse to see how far they were able to go and what they were able to accomplish compared to their friends.

"Miiverse is an important part of that. So for our first-party teams, particularly at launch, what they want to do is try to lead the way and show people different ways that you can use Miiverse in a meaningful way to connect the content to the Internet. They've put more of their focus on that Miiverse connection to Nintendo Network, rather than on online play. But I certainly anticipate that, as we're going deeper into the life of the Wii U and we're seeing more and more games from the first-party teams, we're going to start to see games that do have online play and things like that."

The Wii U and Nintendo Land launch on November 18.

SOURCE:EXAMINER.COM