14 DAY TRIAL // The Mii Channel is an avatar creator, where users can design 3D caricatures of people by selecting from a group of facial and bodily features. A Wired News interview held in 2006 by producer of Animal Crossing and Wii Sports, Katsuya Eguchi confirmed that the custom player avatar feature shown at Nintendo's E3 Media Briefing would be included in the hardware. Nintendo currently allows only 100 unique Miis per consoles, when there are practically millions of Miis out there screaming to make it to the platform. The app was described as part of a profile system that contains the caricature and other pertinent player information.
Now, the problem lies with Nintendo's not releasing the necessary tools to put Miis into third-party games yet, as EA producer Eric Chartrand states and this is only because of the differing graphical styles posing integration and possible consistency problems for realistic games.
Still, the best thing Nintendo could do at the moment, given that it isn't too late already, would be to get their own third-party developers on this issue. Among the other Channels the Wii provides with, like the Photo Channel, the Shop Channel, the Virtual Console Channel or the News and Forecast Channels, the Mii Channel is one of great potential.
While serving as character, the player controls some forms of gameplay. Miis can also interact with other Wii users by showing up on their Wii consoles through the WiiConnect24 feature or by talking with other Miis created by Wii owners all over the world. It's pure fun and sheer diversity and that's what people want, that's all. Nintendo should really put some thought into this before it is too late. They don't want to throw out the window everything they've achieved this last year.