Wii Communitii Sites

Two separate people emailed me this week to tell me about web projects they'd built recently to facilitate the trading of Wii numbers with friends and potential friends. What's interesting to me most, of course, is how the community of gamers has responded to the need to share Wii information.

There's the cutely named Wiipals which mostly seems to be a forum, but also generates a code to share your Wii number on Myspace. A bit...simplistic.

Then there's Sharewiis.com, a pretty sweet community site that also lets people trade DS numbers. Alex Chang, the site's creator, explains:

I just finished my hobby website sharewiis.com --a place where wii players can share their Wii codes, DS friend codes, etc. without the annoyance of ads and with powerful search tool to pinpoint active users that will most likely exchange codes with you.

I just got fed up with the archaically inefficient forum/comment-on-a-blog method, and then the in-your-face popup ads on other exchange sites, etc. You never know easily on a forum/blog comment who has added you who hasn't. So i created this simple but comprehensive web site to allow friend code sharing. ...

my site wasn't designed to supplant valuable forum communities or blogs, but rather supplement it with an easier way of sharing codes for forum users and blog readers.

So get out there and find some miis to play with!