Wii U: Nintendo Miiverse won't copy Xbox Live, PSN, says Nintendo

Nintendo's Miiverse will not copy features from Xbox Live and PSN, president Satoru Iwata has revealed.

Describing the Wii U's online service as unique, Iwata believes that offering similar features to Xbox Live and PSN would not benefit the consumer.



"We have not thought that offering the same features that already exist within other online communities would be the best proposal for very experienced game players," Iwata told IGN.

"Nintendo has paid a great deal of attention to the dynamic of people playing video games together in the same room.

"With Wii U, we thought about expanding this concept into separate rooms which are connected online. Miiverse is a network community dedicated to video games that represents a very unique game-dedicated social graph that has never existed before."

Iwata also apologised for the system's large day-one update, which has the capacity to brick consoles, rendering them unusable.

"Personally I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.

"So I feel very sorry for the fact that purchasers of Wii U have to experience a network update which takes such a long time, and that there are the services which were not available at the hardware's launch," he added.

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The Wii U is available now in North America and will launch on November 30 in Europe. A basic and premium edition will be available, as well as a ZombiU bundle exclusively in Europe.

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