Can you play Wii games over the internet?

no, not at this time, you cannot play any game online.

You will be able to in a few months though.

Several Wii games are in development that offer online multiplayer.

Which titles will have online multiplayer?

Pokemon Battle Revolution and Mario Strikers Charged are two games with online capabilities that have been confirmed. I believe Strikers has already been released in Europe. According to all reports they will be using the Friend Code system like on the DS.

I believe I read something about the new NIGHTS having a multiplayer feature as well. Also several new "brain age" type games by Nintendo..

Thanks. My kids are going to love the Pokemon game.

I`m waiting for Mario Kart to be online multiplayer.

Ugh.

Anyone want to buy a Wii? I've had mine since right after launch, and I've logged more time playing GameCube games than anything else. I already have a GameCube.

With MS having figured out the online play thing, I figured Nintendo could just look at it and essentially copy it.

What the hell is their problem? What is the aversion to online gaming that Nintendo has? I mean it's not 1996 anymore.

My only gaming friends are my old college buddies, and we're all Nintendo fans, but not a single one of us lives closer than a 2 hour flight from one another, so this "party console" thing Nintendo is pushing is just not working for me.

"Mario Kart: Double Dash" for the GameCube had online multiplayer, but I'm not surprised you may not have known this as Nintendo sure didn't push it much.

Of course Nintendo didn't bother to make it so the Wii could use it's wireless network adapter for GameCube games, so unless you have a GameCube (and friends with GameCubes) and it's network adapter your SOL.

This is why the Wii is only $249,no multiplayer online and no high definition.Good thing for the crazy controller or it would only be worth about $100.I wouldn`t have bought it ,I would have kept my Gamecube.

How much are you looking for for your Wii?

I don't know.

I have:

- the Wii
- a component cable
- two Wiimotes
- two nunchuks
- a recharging station and battery packs
- Wii Sports
- Zelda
- Rayman
- Excite Truck

I think that's everything. I'd prefer to sell the whole lot together.

Mario Kartouble Dash did not have online multiplayer...it had LAN multiplayer,the only real online game for the Cube was Phantasy Star Online. You could get online with MKD and a few other LAN enabled titles using Warppipe, but it was extremely laggy. I prefer to play games by myself so I could care less about online at the moment.

Nintendo is moving into the online space, albeit slowly. Look at the DS with Mario Kart and the WFC online multi-player races - the Wii will get some lovin' it just takes time [for them].

You're absolutely right. I had forgotten that I had to use a tool on my computer to route the traffic from the GameCube so I could play Mario Kart online.

The experience sucks. It's impossible to find a game. You have to choose either friends OR anyone. You can't pick to just open a game and give preference to friends joining automatically, so to play with friends I have to call them all up and see if they want to play, and if less than 3 of them do then we end up in a partial game.

Not to mention the DS has a microphone built right in... yet for some unknown reason I'm totally unable to use it to talk to people I'm playing against. Basically playing online is like playing by yourself, but the AI is slightly different. There's no real interaction of any kind.

Unless Nintendo come out with their own version of Xbox live, online play is going to suck.

Its too bad because its doing well in Japan. The CEO Iwata or whoever couldnt care less about what the US wants. He is particularly concerned about Pokemon not selling on the DS. That to the US doesnt make much sense however if you see how wildly successful the DS is in Japan, you'll understand why the Wii is where it is now.

This is what happens when you're a "tier 2" country. I'm sure many in Australia and UK have experienced the same delays of releases and cancellations that came to the US first/only. Now we're it.

BTW, Japan loves party games. Have you seen the recent movie Babel? the scene where Japanese people hang in groups? Thats exactly how it is in Japan and they play games in groups.

Of course they love party games in Japan.

Have you ever been to Tokyo? You can't sneeze in public without giving the flu to at least a hundred "gamers."

There's almost no point to online play in Japan. You're never for a shortage of immediately available participants in almost any form of digital entertainment.

If you could walk into any subway car in Manhattan and complete a NCAA tourney sized bracket for a Mario Kart DS ad-hoc Wifi competition before getting to your next stop, then I suppose it makes sense that you wouldn't care about the whole online experience.

I have exactly five friends who play any kind of video games, and not a one of them lives anywhere near me, and every one of us owns a DS and a Wii because we like the Nintendo franchises, and because with built in WiFi we just assumed they'd have... you know... some decent online play.

That's what we get for being stupid Americans I suppose

But I think there is some online play for Wii in Japan already, isnt there?

I say the PS3 (leave the price out) and Wii are both suffering because the makers do not make anything catering to the American gamer.

The Xbox 360 seems to flourish here but not in Japan..

I think I got the wrong consoles but not for the obvious FPS games but for the choices the 360 has and firsts. Then whenever I think of why I got the PS3, I see the (blue) light - Blueray. Even if I dont want to game anything, I still got a nice BR player. I'll enjoy whatever the 360 has on my PC.

I hope Guitar Hero III and DDR:HP are good for the Wii otherwise I'll get the PS3 version and the Wii will die. Right now MP:3 reminds me of Bionicle Heroes - A title I got sick of right away when I tried it on the PC because I'm so burnt out on Lego SW. MP:3 is the make or break game for the Wii.