Often (but not always) the fact that something has to be free is not good quality. We're not sure if Nintendo is aware of this, but the company will continue to offer the online service for U Wii without charging a cent. The launch of the console is expected for the month of August.
LIVE Gold and PlayStation Plus are paid subscription services available for the Xbox 360 and PS3, respectively. These paid services have the advantage of offering more features and a lot of applications premium, unlike the free versions of them.
The service for Nintendo Wii, called "Wi-Fi Connection", or comes close to those already mentioned and is not such a large community such as Xbox LIVE and PSN.
The fact is that maintaining services like LIVE and PS Plus Gold costs money, why are not free. Besides this, surely any gamer would rather pay some extra dollars and have available an effective online service and a community of active players with perfect attendance, which seems to be the case of the service offered by Nintendo.
Once the Wii is released U, we have to wait and see how things evolve.
