Nintendo har ikke utmerket seg nevneverdig når det kommer til spilling over nettet, og hvis vi skal tro en anonym utviklers utsagn til Eurogamer kan dette skyldes at sjefene ikke kjenner til hva konkurrentene driver med.
I forkant av lanseringen av Wii U skal den anonyme utvikleren ha deltatt i en telefonkonferanse med Nintendo da PSN og Xbox Live ble nevnt. Da skal utvikleren ha blitt fortalt at det ikke var noen vits i å referere til Sony og Microsofts online-tjenester ettersom ingen av Nintendo-sjefene benytter disse enhetene.
"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", forklarer kilden.
"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 artikkelen beskrives også problemer med å kommunisere med Nintendo gjennom flere tolker, i tillegg til mangelen på tredjepartsstøtte. Den anonyme kilden spår en mørk fremtid for Wii U.