So my brother, his friend, and I tried to all hook up and have a nice Super Smash Brothers Brawl beat-em up session on our Wii’s tonight. Didn’t happen. Instead we spent over an hour trying to connect to each other’s hosted games, letting each churn for over 10 minutes each, every time either timing out, or just never connecting.

It would seem that Nintendo was ill prepared for this kind of response. I find this amusing due to the fact that this game was highly anticipated for MONTHS now, and you would think that with a game this popular Nintendo would have beefed up the backend servers, ready to take on the masses of rabit brawlers ready to do battle! Instead they played conservative for their first serious online venture, and I must say that they are starting to disappoint. No connection tonight, laggy connection last night… All in all it is not looking like a good PR campaign for the top selling video game giant right now.