Wii Channels
Today and Tomorrow Channel launches for Free in Europe
Wii owners across the pond can look forward to a new channel September 9th as the “Today and Tomorrow Channel” launches. According to Nintendo UK, Today and Tomorrow Channel will let you check daily fortunes, fetch relationship advice, and recommend food based on your horoscope. Up to six users are supported, and the channel allows you to cross reference compatibility between users...
Update: Wii Internet Channel now free
The free, then un-free Wii Internet Channel is now free again, reports GameIndustry.biz. Those of you who didn’t download in time and were forced to pay the 500 Wii Point to get this oft-unused Wii Channel will have the option of downloading a free NES Virtual Console game come October. That is all.
How do you feel about “Wii no Ma?”
Yesterday Nintendo opened up a new page for it’s forthcoming Wii Video Service Channel “Wii no Ma.” The channel, which will be released in Japan on May 1st, allows you to populate a room with up to eight Mii’s to live in a real time virtual life while you watch and rate original videos that are delivered through the Wii’s internet connection. But the “Wii no Ma&...
Wii Channel Issues – Zooming Slowly
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xta0EL9DDuE[/youtube] Mym6 of the Infendo Forums is currently experiencing a little problem with his Nintendo Wii and the way Channels Zoom in. I’m curious if anyone else has noticed this. Some channels will zoom in very slowly. My Mario Kart and Nintendo Channels both zoom in very slowly compared to others. If I move those channels to a blank sc...
Internet Channel to use tabs, Wii Speak
Nintendo and Opera have chiseled out an updated Internet Channel. According to GoNintendo, the new browser will utilize tabbed browsing and Wii Speak compatibility. Users will be able to track up to six tabs with the “tab cube,” a floating on-screen cube showing an open site on each of its sides. The update will also include a new button layout for the navigation bar and a built-in mai...
Top 10 Things That Annoy Me About the Wii
Over the past two years the Wii, and by extension Nintendo, has enjoyed immense success. Massive sales, new avenues of consumer adoption, grannies boxing grannies, and soccer moms getting fit on a video game controller–it’s all here, and the impact is undeniable. Why then, I ask, am I still so annoyed with this amazing machine? Before I jump headfirst into flame land, however, hereR...
The Wii, Nintendo’s evil little spy.
Nintendo is hiding a little spy in the “Nintendo Channel”. That spy will share all your dirty little secrets to Nintendo. To find out how the channel is doing it, hit the jump.
Nintendo Channel now available for Wii
Was your Wii flashing blue this morning? Nope, it wasn’t another Mario Kart challenge .. the Nintendo Channel is now available to download! I hopped on my Wii, went to the Shop Channel, and started the download. Firing up the Nintendo Channel plays a short video preview of what the channel contains. After that, I downloaded a demo of Crosswords onto my DS, watched video previews for a couple...
WiiWare debuts to muted response, slow servers in Japan
WiiWare launched today in Japan along with a handful of games and the reactions have been — if we’re going to reduce each to a word or phrase — muted, surprising and “frackin’ expensive!”
Nintendo ramps up Wii Fit marketing, shifts industry yet again
Wii Fit is big in Japan (1.5 million sold in three months) and arguably will be as big if not bigger in the US when it goes live in a month or so (more people, more people who subscribe to new “weight loss” gimmicks, Wii’s existing momentum among people outside the now incorrectly described “core” or “traditional gamer”). But, just in case, Nintendo is all...
Bomberman game explodes onto WiiWare
WiiWare isn’t even out of the oven officially yet and its already got a proper Bomberman game scheduled for release. And this is not mini-game Bomberman, no, but honest to goodness 8-player simultaneous bomb on bomb action. [Japanese link via Kotaku]
Wii TV Channel is worthless… useful?!
Some of the Wii Channels released thus far have been, in a word or two, slightly less useful than a urinal in the women’s restroom. The new Japanese TV Channel, which serves as a 3D TV Guide of sorts, however, might actually be one of the first that you’ll use on a regular basis (Japan only, but an interesting concept nevertheless). [Wii TV Channel Isn’t Dumb — Kotaku]