About the Wii's online experience (page 5). Hopefully someone from Nintendo is reading, I'd like to make a suggestion as to how things can be greatly improved without sacrificing any safety.

First thing is that individual game codes could be dropped leaving just Wii friend codes, although this may be difficult or impossible to put into games using the current system. If you're online with someone anonymous (continental or world game) you could be limited to fixed text and if you're online with friend(s) you could use fixed text, free text and speech. If you're online with a mixture of the two then your friend(s) could receive fixed text, free text, and speech and the rest would only receive fixed text.

The diary could be modified so that it becomes a central point for managing online. Each contact could have series of tick boxes with options like the ability to send this contact free text, send this contact speech, the ability to receive free text from this contact, and receive speech.

Parental controls could set up could veto the settings for an individual contact (disable sending free text and speech, receiving free text and speech, and disabling the contact entirely), could set up the default tick boxes for new contacts (e.g. no receiving of text or sound for new contacts without the parents' say so), if the child is allowed to change the tick boxes on their own, and finally if the parent needs to approve new contacts before they're treated as activated.

The diary could also show if the contact is online at this moment and what they are doing (if they are in the Wii Menu or which game they are playing) allowing players to easily meet up in games or send messages to arrange a meet up, maybe instant messages instead of the current bulletin board messages which can take a while to arrive.

It'd be difficult to accuse Nintendo of forgetting about safety on line with a system like this, be far easier to use than what's there at the moment, and it'd probably make for a better environment for adults than other competing consoles too as they will get free text and speech just from people they want and nobody else.

Hopefully this message hasn't been in vain...