Is Nintendo Network About to Expand to Third Party Applications?

Tynan Muddle at Aussie-Gamer writes: "Nintendo Network could be about to expand to allow other services such as Facebook and other third party applications share information with players Nintendo Network ID (NNID), according to a website Aussie-Gamer has discovered."

[vishmarx]

a little too late donchya think?
besides nintendo fans have made it clear that they dont really need 3rd party games

[ChickeyCantor]

Nintendo fans don't need half baked ports. There is a major difference.

[vishmarx]

beggars cant be choosers

[ChickeyCantor]

Really don't see how that is relevant to anything. You said they don't want third party games. I simply stated that like any other person no one wants bad games.

[Neonridr]

is it too much to ask vishmarx to get at the bare minimum an equal port? Otherwise it's no surprise when the game sells poorly.

[_QQ_]

No one is begging, hence the poor sales.

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Need for speed and splinter cell black list were both good ports to the system and nobody bought them on the WiiU. Enough excuses.

[SpiralTear]

@Kobe357

A good port is not necessarily an equal port. In the case of Blacklist, it was not equal. It had a lot of technical issues that never got resolved, while the other consoles' issues did.

As for Need for Speed, it may have been an okay game, but it was still a port of an older title that didn't do much to justify a purchase on Wii U. Unless there's something mind-blowingly good in the exclusive features, no one will buy a port of a game that's so old, especially if they already own the game on 360 or PS3. EA is completely guilty of half-assed Wii U ports; there's no excuse for that.

[jcnba28]

@Kobe357

NFS was released months after the other versions.

Splinter Cell Blacklist was not a good port because the online was broken from day 1 and Ubisoft didn't release a patch until just a few weeks ago.

[GoldenElf]

Erm... this has nothing to do with third party games.

This is about third party APPLICATIONS. For example, I could make an online forum and ask you to sign in with your Nintendo Network ID, instead of Facebook or Twitter.

Or I could make an application where Facebook auto-posts to Miiverse.

This could potentially be massive for Nintendo as releasing some NNID API's, all kinds of people could take advantage of Nintendo's platform. Look at how successful Facebook and Twitter have been by allowing third party applications access their API's.

[LAWSON72]

Smart people get bubbles

[hduce]

Maybe you should tell them to read the f*cking article before commenting.

[KonsoruMasuta]

You didn't even read the article and have no idea what it's about. You just thought it was a good opportunity to troll.

[DarthZoolu]

Gamers are not beggers we are consumers with money! The fact is 3rd party games will be better on xbo and ps because of their capabilities. Hardware is not all that matters but its a really big deal when it comes to computer or gaming anything. I think they should be focused on games not apps. They need to make their next game complete! Online, good visuals, good AI, I just want to play a real 2014 Zelda that competes with Skyrim. I know Nintendo doesn't want to compete with anyone but for my money I want a company to work for it. I am the consumer and if you are not willing to work (or compete) for my money you want get it. Sony and MS are ready to kill each other for my money and attention and I love it.

[Venox2008]

I really hope that this is something related to NNID to have a unified account (3DS x Wii U) or at least using same account on multiple Wii U or 3DS..

[mydyingparadiselost]

I was thinking the same thing. A unified system is coming, it just needs to come quickly.

[Misaka_x_Touma]

quickly isn't an option

Taking the time to get correct out the gate is.

Reason why 3DS Fall Update was delayed.

Wii U has account system just not unified til 3DS Next Big Update is live.

[SpiralTear]

It would be great to access both 3DS and Wii U Miiverse forums on Wii U, then on 3DS on the go.

[XisThatKid]

Didn't know it wasn't, cool I guess.

[rinslowe]

This is nothing but good, if true.