This threw us for a curve ball. See, we all know that when you enter Pictochat on your DS during your birthday, there's a message there waiting for you, so we always assumed that on the Wii something similar would be done. Why else make you input your birthday when making a Mii, right? Well, according to one blogger expecting a small Mii party to be taking place in his Mii Plaza, instead he was greeted with nothing but a crew of apathetic digital Miis.That's right, there was no party, nor were there party hats or confetti, nothing. So we're wondering just why we're asked to input our birthday when creating a Mii. Now, we assume this blogger's Wii is online, so we can rule out Nintendo sending a message congratulating us on another year of life on this planet.
What do you guys think?
[via Infendo]
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3-02-2007 @ 12:27PM
PimpDaddyShaggy said...
That makes me sad. My birthday is Sunday and I was expecting some kind of message! Now I feel all disappointed.
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3-02-2007 @ 12:35PM
Heyzeus said...
I woke up on the morning of my b-day to find my Wii pulsating in blue. I was running late for work, so I didn't check it until I got home, but I was kind of excited that the Wii had acknowledged my birthday... or so I thought. It turned out the glow was from a system message sent out to every Wii owner that morning, so that put me into a great depression. I was saddened and disappointed since I figured with me entering my birth date for my Mii, it would have congratulated me in some way.
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3-02-2007 @ 12:47PM
flameofdoom666 said...
That is pretty stupid..
Maybe a firmware update will fix this? We can hope! :-)
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3-02-2007 @ 1:23PM
CubeGuy said...
Well fine. I wasn't going to invite the Miis to my party anyway.
*pout*
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3-02-2007 @ 1:36PM
Zachary Hinchliffe said...
Maybe specific cames need to take advantage of it. Animal Crossing, perhaps?
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3-02-2007 @ 1:40PM
CubeGuy said...
I hadn't thought of that. Has anyone tried Warioware?
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3-02-2007 @ 2:01PM
Chicago_Josh said...
I always assumed it was so you can keep track of when you created them. Yeah, I have a Mii for myself, my mom, and my girlfriend...
and my sisters, my brother, some of my friends... the three stooges... Michael Jackson (which actually looks eerily precise)...
Aaaaaanyway, I obviously don't know the actual birthdays of all the Miis I've created, and a lot of them aren't even real people, so I just put the date I created them as a point of reference.
It'd be neat to see them be put to some use in future games, though.
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3-02-2007 @ 2:09PM
RT said...
My 30th b-day was about 2 weeks ago...the Miis didn't care about this milestone and I spent my birthday alone...drinking myself silly.
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3-02-2007 @ 2:18PM
Barry said...
Bummer I was lookin forward for the wii to do something on a mii's birthday....I hope they put out an update to the mii's and add that feature.
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3-02-2007 @ 2:26PM
Kirk said...
WarioWare uses your birthday sometimes with the "Quiz Show" microgame. It sometimes asks a question about your birthday, such as "Nod your head if Kirk was born in November"
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3-02-2007 @ 2:38PM
Dan Brusich said...
Seriously Nintendo, you couldn't have put a party hat on the birthday mii? In MGS2 you got a happy birthday complete with cake (icon) and candles if you put in the current date when they asked for that info for your dog tags (I love MGS and hate that PS3 has it). Being the masters of all that is cute and fun (currently playing Paper Mario), I figured Nintendo could do something with birthdays. Flash a picture, drop a cake on a Mii's head... do something. Bottom line, we need an update to fix this outrageous problem.
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3-02-2007 @ 3:12PM
Skippy said...
Maybe the Wii is a Jehovah's Witness?
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3-02-2007 @ 4:51PM
beesnipe said...
Are you kidding?!
My Wii had a big party for my birthday! Complete with confetti, and jolly ranchers!
I even got 1000 free VC points!
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3-02-2007 @ 5:35PM
zrockstar said...
I know!!! My birthday is Monday and I was stoked thinking I would get some kind of acknowledgement. I checked the calender yesterday and saw there was no sign of anything special. Soooooo, I left my own birthday greeting as a memo so at least I would get something!
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3-03-2007 @ 12:43AM
dville said...
i looove all these game related cakes that have been going around lately
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3-03-2007 @ 2:46AM
Steve 3.2 said...
Hopefully Nintendo will fix this missing 'feature' in a future update. It would also be nice if the Miis celebrated other events and holidays like July 4th (for those of us in the US) or Halloween.
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