In addition to the multitude of games announced for the Wii U at E3 this year — most prominently Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo also announced Miiverse, a feature that allows players to interact with each other all around the world, talking about what games they like the most and so on.
While this is a good idea for the sake of player interactivity, as with any internet-based communication, there comes the problem of monitoring and moderating comments — and since the Wii U GamePad could allow explicit drawings, this problem is even more prominent. So how will Nintendo take care of this? According to Chief Executive Satoru Iwata: very meticulously.
Following the announcement of Miiverse, Iwata explained that Nintendo has a three-part plan to combat any sort of inappropriate behavior. The first is through content filtering via software, which isn’t a perfect solution as many users could easily work around any words that would be censored. Thus, Iwata says that the second part of the plan is to have human resources monitor the content. In other words, Nintendo will hire people specifically to keep an eye on Miiverse.
That may sound like a good plan at first, as humans would be able to examine each scenario on a case-by-case basis, but then the problem of time comes up. With software monitoring, a comment can be up in just a few seconds. With humans, it may take much longer to make sure the comment is appropriate for posting. How long can depend on how many people are doing the job and how much they have to work with, but according to Iwata, “30 minutes should be acceptable.” Nintendo will be monitoring initial feedback for further planning.
The third part of Iwata’s plan is to have the users themselves monitor and flag any comments that aren’t fit for Miiverse. But, as with the first part, that isn’t a perfect idea. For one, it would mean that potentially troublesome comments will be seen by a number of users before they’re removed. For another, this concept could easily be abused by some users, flagging down comments they simply disagree with rather than consider inappropriate.
It certainly seems like Iwata and Nintendo will have their hands full merely deciding what to do about this problem, let alone actually implementing the solution. Nintendo has always been concerned with providing a family-appropriate experience, so monitoring comments will be a necessity. On the other hand, a delay of up to 30 minutes for a comment to appear is incredibly long, and many users will consider it ridiculous, which could result in the Miiverse feature going largely unused.
What do you think Nintendo should do about this potential issue? Will you be using Miiverse if the delay is implemented?
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Source: L.A. Times
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lol nintendo keeps amazing me. they r just so bad at everything they do every idea they have every concept is just so far behind the times. and it seems they have no interest in the players what so ever. mark my words this will be nintendos last console b4 they file for chapter 11.
…its actually quite the opposite….
If you think that, then you either haven’t been paying attention, or you have too high hopes for a company that doesn’t know how to appeal to its audience.
…none of those are right…..but its funny how one little article can cause so much hate…..
If the banned comment that others try to slyly hide ie: 8ad \/\/0rd
is saved on their servers, then eventually all of the variations will be blocked
Wow, Nintendo once again proves they are living in the past and have yet to realize the basic functionality of the internet that is expected with online services. They fail with the hardcore, they fail at online services, and once again they show their targeted demographic is young Japanese children and American soccer moms.
Look, I’m not praising Microsoft, Sony, EA, or Ubisoft. It’s just they had a God awful showing, no surprises which you almost certainly have to have when it comes to a hardware launch.
As far as Wii U goes, its a ‘pass’ for me, I’ll wait and decide on the true next-gen systems next year while Nintendo collapses from the inside, which over the last two years they have proven to be good at.
It’ll be this Generation or next that Nintendo’s Console Bombs.
And I’m using Wii U as This Generation and using the Term Next Generation Loosely “At least for Nintendo”.
I think it is finn how so many people like to hate on the company that practically gave you the gaming world you have today. Without Nintendo and SEGA there may have never been a Playstation or stupid Xbox. Especially xbox, i hate that system. Most of the people that use it are infants and all they want to do is play silly generic fps’s with no originality. Now before you hate on me 1) I love fps games, but too much of a good thing turns it into a bad thing i.e. Mario and Sonic. 2) I have played a xbox before, both on and offline so don’t even head in that direction. 3) I have owned and still own several systems. My two current systems i own are the Wii and PS3. And yes I love the Wii, it is super fun and awesome with some great games. I also love the PS3 for the same reasons.
I just think it is sad that so many people hate on Nintendo when they have done so much for the gaming industry. They will come up with any reason to hate on Nintendo, even if there isn’t a reason. Like with the Gamecube, awesome system and awesome games with better graphics than the ps2 and yet everyone hated on it. Because for most of the idiot infant gamers theses days (i have been gaming since the original gameboy) if it isn’t rated M and a FPS they won’t play it. Well &*^% you! Grow up and realize that a CORE GAMER is a person that plays games no matter the style, the rating, the company, or anything else. They play games because they challenge them as a gamer and are fun to play. I play Mario galaxy because it is fun, and challenging. I also play Killzone for the same reason. And guess what, I play Wii Sports as well. Because it is FUN!!!! Get over yourselves already people. the most childish generation ever in america is living right now and yet they refuse to do something they deem “childish”?!? They want to look grown up and HARDCORE! Whatever that means in their infant brains of theirs.
finn = *funny
have to make sure everything is spelled correctly otherwise people will disregard my entire comment and focus on the fact that one word got misspelled thanks to spell check.