Nintendo Wii U will not have just one online service

Nintendo has confirmed that the upcoming Wii U will have multiple online services, not just a singular entity like Xbox Live or the PSN.

NoA president Reggie Fils-Aime says publishers will be in charge of setting up their own platforms.

Says the president (via Forbes):

I don�t think it is an issue for us, and here�s why. We�ve seen what our competitors have done, and we�ve acknowledged that we need to do more online, starting with the launch of our eShop on Nintendo 3DS, and we�re going to continue to build our online capability.For Wii U, we�re going to take that one step further, and what we�re doing is creating a much more flexible system that will allow the best approaches by independent publishers to come to bear.

So instead of a situation where a publisher has their own network and wants that to be the predominant platform, and having arguments with platform holders, we�re going to welcome that. We�re going to welcome that from the best and the brightest of the third party publishers.

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