Nintendo unveils Miiverse

MiiVerse, which we were helpfully told is short for Mii Universe (thanks for looking out for the little bit of dense person inside of me, Nintendo), is a pretty spectacular idea. As with the last two major Nintendo hardware releases, you’ll create your Mii when you first boot up the console, a newly high-definition representation of yourself on screen. Here is where things get interesting: from the home page, the place in which you select which game you’d like to play, Mii characters of people using that game will appear gathered underneath. If you struggle, you simply open the home menu (which doesn’t disturb your game), open the chat area of the game which you’re playing and you’ll see help, advice and the sounds made by other people stuck in the same location. Within seconds you can go from playing a single player game to playing a game with the help of strangers..