Thanks!

Yes it could be great, they have the best online service and user base... hopefully this will take advantage of it!

Hi

Yes it does have its good points. I agree with everything you say but the issues I raised about the marketplace are valid. I tend to use the method you describe in point 3 most of the time as it does exactly what you said... bypasses NXE, though It does not bypass the new market place which is a shame.
I wonder if the film downloads have increased because the number of films available has?

I still think that a company with such a long history off making operating systems should be able to do a better job, then again maybe not... Linux anybody?

Anyone know what happened to the fifteen to one game?

To any third-party Wii developer's reading this.
If you make FPS's, have 30 minutes to spare and would like to listen to an idea that might help the Wii become a leading platform for FPS gaming then please feel free to contact me via Edge-Online.

I've been using it for longer than I'd like already... my time online is down, my downloads are down, and my avatar(like so many others) looks decidedly gay!

The avatars are high-def but are no where near as charming as Mii's or as customisable. The Wii system allows significant alteration of the size, separation, and position of facial features which is sadly missing from Microsoft’s effort.
Finding things on the marketplace if harder than it used to be, in the past items were grouped in (game) folders. Now each item is displayed separately at the top level meaning multiple entries for a single game can swamp the menu's. Displaying the box art looks pretty but eats up space therefore minimising the amount of useful information on view at any one time. The old marketplace was not perfect and as the total amount of content on offer grew so did the need for a search engine, in light of NXE’s failings I now consider this an essential addition.
The final and biggest irritation is that load times of the most critical information have increased massively. The pretty pictures etc load fine but the download information can take longer to load than my patience lasts meaning I simply give up and play a game instead. I am a patient person but knowing that this used to take a second and seeing no good reason for the minute plus delay has somewhat shortened my resolve…

It would have been better if, instead of giving us customisable avatars, they had given us a customisable dashboard… or at the very least the option to roll back to the old experience!