WarmanSteve

MiiVerse brings gamers together in a way that I've never seen.  Similar to twitter in that your status updates are limited in length (100 char so far) but also similar to facebook fan pages, where each game has a community where they can share their thoughts on a game or franchise, and connect with developers to receive updates, give opinions, provide feedback, etc.  It also allows community owners to connect to their fans and receive drawings, suggestions, etc for future development.

It also allows people to reach out to a game community to get tips, share information, and to see what their MiiVerse friends have accomplished (or where they've failed) in game.  Being able to use MiiVerse the app is great, seeing the integration inside a game is amazing.  A great way to provide updates from your friends without breaking immersion with beeping and popups.

Facebook is a social network to connect friends together, twitter is a social network to catch up with what friends are doing, Miiverse is a social network which tells people your opinions on the specific thing in a game, not so much to connect with friends, but to connect with random people who enjoy the same games you do with a post about the game. 

There are many improvements that need to take place within Miiverse, such as messages on the screen(tv) while in game as to when we get notifications and an online friends list on the Miiverse app itself, it's annoying having to see who is online. Other things such as party chat and in-game invited are things that need to come after the spring and summer update. Some apps like the "Wii U Chat" seem so unesscessary to me, why couldn't they just make it apart of Miiverse. I truly don't see a need for a friends list. I'd rather just have it all in one application. After these things come true, then we will see Miiverse become a socially connected network.

You have to remember, Nintendo is a kid friendly company. They aren't like Microsoft or Sony, they actually care about protecting their kids from seeing inappropriate things. You do have to be considerate of the youth. 

I like Miiverse, I enjoy it. The people are very helpful, there's a lot of creative artistic people on there, and its easy to navigate through. I wish though they Wii U had more games, if it did, I would probably be using Miiverse more than I do right now. I wish though they'd hurry up and do the update where we can post videos. Nintendo definitely has a good thing with Miiverse. It's definitely promising and has all of the potential in the world. They just need to utilize it properly. 

I think one of the truly different things about Miiverse is the ability to write hand-drawn messages or even make a masterpiece. It makes for more of a personal experience seeing others that are like-minded.