Profiles in Controllers -

An "in progress" idea

Your controller would be your pass to the most interactive world of gaming ever introduced.


It be your identity in the online gaming world. It would house your profile, such as stats/rank, age, date registered, maybe a short biography, and more. You could bring it anywhere; if you went over to a friend's house, it would upload your profile and friend code to your friend's Wii™, so you and him/her would instantly be able to play online whenever you both wanted. This would greatly reduce the annoyance of the current friend code system as well.

I have to add that profiles would be stored mainly on the Wii™, but then could be uploaded to the controller as an alternative storage medium: When you turn on the Wii™, your status is automatically set to "Player". You have a profile on the Wii™ however, and when you want to start playing "as yourself", you press the Sync button (look very closely), and your profile will be uploaded to your controller.

You would be able to email friends via the web browser, check stats of others easily and freely, and meet new people on... NsiderConnect™? (My own invention) Here you could share friend codes and your current favourite games, but you wouldn’t do it on a forum... you would be able to browse other people’s profiles, and if you find someone that you think would be a great friend or rival (based on their profile components; once again rank, age, biography), you would be able to email them on a personal Nsider email program (Private messages) to ask if you could be their friend/rival. They would answer back, either sharing their friend code or not, and then you could keep track of each other.


A big help to the NsiderConnect program would be a Bluetooth™ powered keyboard.

You could make friends and get more friend codes either the "Local" way (giving your controller to a friend or going over to his house, then uploading profile onto his Wii™'s database of friends) or non-local (online sharing method mentioned above).

Because of the danger of people tampering with your profile (if they have your controller!), there would be passwords set to each controller. It would be especially cool if they had a thumbscan password protection system! What about... on the DS? The Wii™ could upload ThumbScan™ software to your DS, then you would press your thumb on the touch screen and have it recognized!

Of course, this process would be a little tedious, but nevertheless cool.

You know what? Your controller could be a cell phone even, like in the article, to call friends (but only friends). Here's a possible way to do this:

You could connect the controller to a wireless network via the Wii™. You could even use your DS as a WDS™ (Wireless Distribution System) to lengthen the range.

There would be a microphone attachment.
Scroll down until you see the mic/speaker one. Though now the speaker is directly implemented, making it unnecessary. After connecting to the Internet, you could talk to a registered friend (on your TV screen there would be a list of your friends, and you would choose one and it would phone them.) Hold the controller upside down to talk.

If this is unappealing to some gamers, there would be the option of bluetooth headsets, with the Wii™ being Bluetooth and all.

The controller would represent each one of us in the huge online world that the Wii™ will delve into...

You can imagine a commercial about this as well.