Nintendo Wifi

[SkiDragon]

I recently picked up Tetris DS for $19, and I've had Mario Kart since Christmas. I would like to play these games online, and I do occasionally, but why the heck is the interface so darn clunky. I thought Nintendo wanted a user friendly service, but it does so many stupid things its unbelievable. The automatic matchmaking takes around 10 minutes to find a game in Tetris. Did they just hire some high school dropouts to do this manually, or what? If you're about to enter a game and somebody drops out, it cant handle it, and sends you back to the menu screen. The excuse that its a "free service" doesn't hold up. I can think of many, many games with free online play that have a better interface than this. I hope they work this stuff out before their console hits this fall.

[boatofcar]

I recently picked up Tetris DS for $19, and I've had Mario Kart since Christmas. I would like to play these games online, and I do occasionally, but why the heck is the interface so darn clunky. I thought Nintendo wanted a user friendly service, but it does so many stupid things its unbelievable. The automatic matchmaking takes around 10 minutes to find a game in Tetris. Did they just hire some high school dropouts to do this manually, or what? If you're about to enter a game and somebody drops out, it cant handle it, and sends you back to the menu screen. The excuse that its a "free service" doesn't hold up. I can think of many, many games with free online play that have a better interface than this. I hope they work this stuff out before their console hits this fall.

Ummm..what? I play Tetris DS every night and have never had any of the problems you just described. The longest I've ever had to wait for a challenger is about a minute.

[SkiDragon]

That's strange. Maybe its my internet connection, but I can play other games online fine, even more bandwidth intensive ones like Halo.

[exit]

So what exactly are you complaining about? The Wifi service has vastly improved over the half year it's been around. When it first started up, I remember constantly getting dropped and having to retry several times until I actually got a game going.

Now it's not that bad at all and I've been connecting faster, as well as getting dropped less. For a company that's never really dealt with online gaming, I think they're doing a damn good job with it.

edit: There also could be a problem with the wifi server. It also might depend on the time of day, I've ran into the most problems late at night.

[Beefy Hits]

I've had problems from time to time, but for Tetris it's been pretty reliable. I connect mostly @ coffee shops. And Mario Kart has been ruined by droppers and snakers worse than PSO was ruined by dupers and PKers in the DC days.