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...
Homebrew Wii DVD Viewer contains sneaky bug
Those of you that grew excited by today’s homebrew Wii DVD breakthrough might have felt that this was too good to be true. True. Before you pop in Alf: Season 2 there’s a few bugs that you might want to take note of. One major issue is audio synching with the video. When viewing some DVDs I noticed the voice, and sound effects were slightly off balance. I did not run into this problem ...
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...
Nintendo Channel launches in Europe and Australia
Just a reminder to our friends across the pond…The Nintendo Channel has finally been released in both Europe and Australia. You should have gotten the glowing blue beacon this past Friday, but if you missed it be sure to download this info packed channel and get to rating your games (woo, what fun!). Not only does each country receive different DS demos, but each internal region gets a diffe...
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...