Online and Mii's ARE available to 3rd parties

[Skippy]

Sega (a third party developer) is releasing in Japan on May 24 a pachinko game for the Wii that is both online and uses Mii's - two things that were rumored to be unavailable to 3rd party developers until next year. Obviously the rumor was wrong.
http://www.n-sider.com/newsview.php?type=story&storyid=2666
And here's the page for the game in case you read Japanese, but there are screenshots showing Mii's:
http://sega.jp/wii/pphokuto/



Also, this interview with Activision indicates they are also working on online Wii games:
http://au.ds.ign.com/articles/770/770831p1.html

 

[Secumfex]

maybe, yet we'll probably not see online games in near future.

 

[Skippy]

maybe, yet we'll probably not see online games in near future.

May 24 is barely over 2 months away
Although that's a Japenese release that probably won't be released elsewhere.

 

[Wii_Smurf]

Yeah. I'll check my Official Nintendo Magazine when I get it on my doorstep soon...
Any news and thats the first Magzine to get it I tell you that
I have high hopes for Online play. Myabe this 'Rumor' was casued to get people more alert for online games so when one came out it was like WOT?