I heard this on a podcast from last month on
ScrewAttack.com.
Apparently Nintendo is working on a way to eliminate friend codes for Wii games. It would be done by simply sending your Mii to your friends. Since there's millions of different possible combinations, and then slapping a name onto it, the chances of an exact duplicate is almost impossible. I'm assuming just in case, there's a unique code encoded with the Mii too, such as the main Wii friend code or a randomly generated code or even a unique code assigned by one of Nintendo's servers. I'm not exactly sure how much they would expand on it and how well 3rd parties would embrace it, but I have a good idea what their target is, which is to make adding friends a lot easier than before.
I haven't heard of this from anywhere else, so it's possible this might not be true, but ScrewAttack looks like a large site with many well-made podcasts so I doubt they would make this stuff up. I'm just surprised I didn't hear about it sooner, considering the podcast went out a month ago and I haven't heard about this anywhere up until I listened to it today .
Has anyone else heard of this? Have I been living under a rock the past month?