I didn't realise that the Wii's "OS" has to be inactive during games. I've always clamoured for this feature but I guess it's impossible... I don't personally have a use for it if it can't be used in-game, since basically 99% of the time I spend on my Wii is in-game.
The Wii does have two processors. The main one is the IBM PowerPC-based Broadway and the secondary one is an ARM. The disc slot can start flashing when you receive a message while you are playing a game. I think the main problem is there are no system user profiles on the Wii. So the system can't be sure who is actually using the console. So a lot would have to change for online notifications to work. Definitely not going to happen on the Wii. Maybe the next Nintendo console (but, sadly, I doubt it...I don't think online gaming is a major Nintendo priority).
Edit: I think the message notification only works in games which enable networking. So it's on a game-by-game basis. So, yeah, it's pretty flimsy.
To be fair, most of the time I'm on my 360 anymore I'm playing Geometry Wars so when anything is blocked out on screen you're as good as dead.
Geometry Wars FTW
anyway i have read all of your posts, and i would have to say i agree with holy mackerel. Also Sean Aaron cleared up alot. But yeah, what i think is that the wii should have a system menu update where there could be a little face next to the message board, sort of like where the SD card menu is except on the other side. When you click it, it would show a list of friends that are on the wii menu currently or something like that. you know, there is no real way to do it, because the OS shuts down when you launch any game or channel, so everyone would have to be on the menu. that would have no point.
but as Iz2010 said
DO WE EVEN NEED IT AT THIS POINT!?
I do find calling my friends on the phone when i want to play with them a bit annoying. the ps3 spoiled me
It would be nice if there was an "online hub room channel" where you could go online if you wanted to see if any friends are around and see what they are playing. If you wanted to you could message them. You could set to receive message alerts in game or not. The only thing that might really be taxing is the message alerts in game. You'd just need Wiiconnect 24 to update your profile when you selected a channel to make that your status so your actual presence in the online channel wouldn't be too difficult to implement, I'd imagine.
I was just thinking about that a few days ago. Maybe they can update the wii speak channel so that if someone has wii connect 24 on, you are able to view what they are doing when you go to the wii speak channel.
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