Great news from Nintendo today regarding the user-generated content-heavy Nintendo Channel: it’s coming to the U.S. complete with DS downloads and user created reviews of WiiWare downloads.
Game|Life’s got the scoop:
if a user has played a WiiWare game for at least an hour, they will be able to review the game on the Nintendo Channel, said Cammie Dunaway (pictured, below), Nintendo of America’s executive vice president, during a meeting with Wired.com editors Wednesday afternoon. The reviews will be available for other Wii owners to read.
Since Nintendo won’t provide free demo versions of WiiWare games, the Nintendo Channel is how customers will be able to get a feel for games to help them make purchasing decisions, said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.
The Japanese version allows DS demo downloads, which we should not only anticipate, but demand from Nintendo when this launches alongside WiiWare next month.
FINALLY!
posted it 2 minutes before I was going to! 🙂
It's about time we saw this Nintendo Channel surface to the US! But to see it come out with the release of WiiWare makes things a whole lot SWEETER!! 😀 Good job Nintendo, now just continue to please us all and announce Animal Crossing Wii and Pikmin 3 + a surprise like a Mario & Luigi 3 for Wii and we're SET for the rest of 2008.
I think I'll be fine once May 12th comes. Just WiiWare is good enough for the rest of the year, and maybe We Love Golf.
Awesome!
Sounds great! Much better than the build-a-bear news!
Just About time!!!! I've been dying to have this on my wii menu!
Now that we have a home based DS download station nintendo just needs to start WiiVC demo trials played while in the wii shop channel. and also demos for the new wii ware. but we can only hope for those.