While Microsoft has the popular Xbox Live service and Sony is hard at work on Home, many gamers are left wondering what Nintendo can do to play catch-up in the online gaming community. Forbes' Chris Morris sat down with Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime Tuesday, and discussed Nintendo's outlook in creating a community through its products. Reggie appears fairly optimistic in his response, reassuring gamers that:

"Nintendo has always had a vision on community... The issue is that we define community differently than our competitors. ... Our consumers do want a sense of community, and we're going to deliver that--but in a way that is unique to Nintendo."

While some may interpret Reggie's words as an indicator that something "big" is on the way next year, others may see it as a story being re-told. Nintendo has definitely built a community thus far, but it has mostly existed in offline settings, or through friend codes. However, Fils-Aime recognizes the need for a sense of community for Nintendo gamers, which also supports the notion that change is on the way.

Morris also takes time to speculate that further announcements could come as late as E3 next year. But with additional optimism from executive vice president of sales and marketing, Cammie Dunaway, there's a chance that we may receive word of great things before then.

Whether Reggie is referring to Wii updates such as the Wii Speak Channel is not confirmed. Regardless, this should be good news to most gamers. But, not all; there is another side to this coin. As I mentioned, we can hope that Nintendo's sense of community doesn't rely on the far too restrictive Wii Speak Channel.

What could we hope for, then, that would be more Nintendo-like? Personally, I would like to see a Wii version of Clubhouse Games. Playing a game of Cribbage, a hand of Texas Hold-em, and other games of this nature while equipped with Wii Speak would be an great diversion from the Nintendo norm, and has the potential to build more of an online community for the console.

Perhaps other features could spring up, such as the addition of achievements/trophies to the Wii. Or perhaps Nintendo will grant my wishes of delivering an online multiplayer Metroid Prime. At this point, we are led to believe that anything is possible. What would you folks like to see that could better build an online community?