As is quickly becoming a tradition, the latest Wii channel dropped a full day early without much fanfare from Nintendo itself. Our brothers in Kyoto seem to be content with letting the blogosphere create the buzz, and we’re happy to oblige. Better your peers tell you what they think of the Channel than some cold, dead press release, right?
That said, who’s kicked the tires? Who’s taken hold of that globe with the A Button and gave it a good hard spin (only to have it land on some obscure city)? Dave was already all over the day one story, so this post is more of your typical day two analysis. What’s missing? How about a nice RSS reader for the layman? Maybe one of you has some enterprising idea kicking around in your head that integrates the Wii News Channel into a game? Have at it, and while you’re at it, give your comment a catchy headline to keep this newsie theme alive.
One gripe right off the bat: No New England area news story about how I beat Twilight Princess last night.
It'd be nice if it had more local news here in England. But according to Nintendo Europe there will be a second version later in its life so hopefully this will allow for more functions.Kerri
I'd like it to be more of an RSS reader than a feed for Associated Press alone. I want to specify what news I read and from where. For example I find it weird that I can't even get news about the Wii… on the Wii. There's no news for New Zealand. We have dozens of newspapers that come out daily, and there's been less than 10 local NZ stories since the channel launch. There's no other way to describe that but pathetic.
I must be missing something… Where it the option to go to a globe view?
Kev, click on a news story to view it then the globe option becomes available in the lower right corner – no other way to get to it as far as I can tell.I too would like more UK stories but it is kind of fun browsing the international news. Nice lengthy articles too.It definitely has a lot of potential though I don't know how much I'll use it once the novelty has worn off – it'll be back to teletext then I guess.
You can't spin the globe though in globe view, and has anyone clicked on the help cat? He tells you that you can tilt the globe with the +/- buttons but, you can't. It doesn't work. Maybe a left out feature or two?
I can't remember which mode it was in but I was spinning the news globe like a good-un the other night. Just grabbed it with A and gave it a twirl. It was just like the end of Superman.
I truthfully haven't been able to get our wireless to work with my Wii (even though it works with the laptop), so I haven't been so fortunate as to try out the news channel yet. But when I do, I'll let you know what I think.As for Zelda: What did you think of the ending? If you didn't like it the first time, watch it a second time. For some reason, it sunk in a little better for me that way.
It's weird that Nintendo didn't send out a Wii Message like they did for the Weather. I think the News application is much more fleshed out than the Weather.
@davidThey did – it just came a day *after* the channel was launched. I got one
I didn't mind the ending at all. Ping me with a Infendo tip and we'll discuss it — to save people from SPOILERS!!!
I submitted my "2 cents" review to Infendo. I did see that the channel arrived much earier and witnessed a couple updates. I'm quite satisfied with the channel. I'll upload the segment to my site if it doesn't make the show.
An interesting thing happened to me on the day of the News Channel launch…Me and my wife went out to go to a movie, and a couple of blocks away from our building (in Chicago), the streets had been closed and there were several fire trucks and ambulances all over the place. Three or four helicopters were hovering above us. We had no idea what happened and didn't have time to investigate.The next day, I checked the Globe on the News Channel, and on Chicago, lo an behold, was the news of a fire on a high-rise, the one two blocks away from us!It was a bit surreal to see a news bit from our neighborhood alongside the other prominent World news on the console…Well, at least it was amusing to me!