I have been following various different online communities and the efforts going into getting Atari/Nintendo to get something moving with the whole Tenkaichi 3 lag issue, but it seems like it is a lost cause. I haven’t written my review yet, because I was really hoping they would fix the issue prior to me having to put an opinion on the game. All those disappointing things asside here is what information I have gathered about the issue.

There have been different tips and tricks for getting better performance out of your wii connection to possibly help out the lag issue. Both of which I had to link to the google cache because the actual forum posts were missing and both of which I have tried with relatively no results. However, I haven’t been able to hook up with someone local to see if that helps, but apparently the closer the person is to you the better the performance. This makes sense because you have to cross across less networks blah blah blah.

In addition to people trying to hack their hardware to fix the lag issue, their have been groups complaining and trying to get Atari to fix the problem. It has even birthed a petition. The Atari representative on the atari community forums has said she passed this petition onto customer service, but doesn’t promise any results. I signed the petition, but I don’t have high expectations.

So there is that, I hope Atari steps up and does something. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like they will. The shame of it is, the game is actually really good, and if they had excluded the online play entirely and just released the game, so many DBZ fans wouldn’t be upset. Look for my review over the next week or so.