Wii Channels

Infendo interviews Bplus about WiiWare’s first title: PLATTCHEN

Infendo did a little genuine journalism today and interviewed Jennifer Fellnhofer, the head of PR at Bplus. If you’ll remember, Bplus was the first developer to formally announce a WiiWare downloadable title. What we discovered from this brief interview was A) BPlus was very prompt in getting back to us, B) the contact with Nintendo was initially made in 2006, and C) Jennifer promised me tha...

WiiWare, the indie developer’s dream

If you build it, the indie developers will come. Nintendo’s betting on it, and today there’s some big news coming out of Redmond (or is that San Fran/NYC now?): WiiWare is officially an indie developers dream. “Small shops with big ideas” — that’s the spin from Regggie and company, and I’m pretty confident that with the Wii’s present success, we̵...

Nintendo speedlinking

Some delicious Nintendo morsels on the day. New Wii download service (not VC) coming within 2 months Rumor: Nintendo Power To Be Licensed To Outside Publisher Nintendo VP Harrison Moving to San Francisco With Sales, Marketing Crew Regginator is “doin’ great” because his employer is making grundles of money Out of the above four, I’m going to easily say the first one has me ...

Which original games will excel when sold via the Wii Shop Channel?

As we all already know Impossible Mission is going to drop sometime in the near future courtesy of the Wii Shop Channel. It’s a first for Nintendo, but not necessarily for an industry that has seen the likes of Xbox Live Arcade. Since the debate and conversation on Infendo has been lively this week on a range of other topics, I thought I’d try and tap into that with a post about other ...

Impossible Mission – coming to Wii Shop Channel

According to the Preview section of the June 2007 Nintendo Power, a remake of the classic Epyx game, Impossible Mission, is coming to Wii via the Shop Channel. The game was announced by developer System 3 several months ago, but this is the first confirmation about how it will be released to Wii owners. It’s something Nintendo hinted at a while ago, but this is the first confirmation of a no...

Wii Internet + Bluetooth keyboard = GOLD (if it existed)

My lovefest with Aeropause continues: If I had a wireless (or even USB) keyboard with my Wii, I’d never surf the Internet with a browser on a PC ever again. Now that I’m back on said crappy Windows machine, I find that there’s just no replacement for a keyboard. And there you have it: the single feature that sets using the Wii Internet Channel apart from using a web browser on a ...

Internet Channel for Wii – full version released

Is your Wii flashing this morning? The full version of the Internet Channel was released today. After an update of my Wii’s firmware (from version 2.0U to 2.2U) and a download of the new Internet Channel from the Wii Ware section of the Shopping Channel, my browsing experience on Wii was fully enhanced. New features introduced in today’s release include: New type of zoom, more scrollin...

NiGHTS to feature YOUR weather

4cr gives us some more dirt on NiGHTS: Masks allow NiGHTS to shape-shift into a dragon, a dolphin (Ecco, anyone?), and a rocket Change scenery according to real-world seasons with the Forecast Channel Seven dream worlds to explore Exchange items via WiiConnect 24 A personal aside: With NiGHTS incoming, as well as the mature fare in Godfather and Manhunt 2 on the way, AND all the first party IP com...

Wii secret revealed – the Wii Cats have names!

In an interview with the developers of Wii’s Photo Channel, the names of both Wii Cats are revealed. ITO:By the way, the cats in the Photo Channel and News Channel are brothers and sisters. SAKAINO: The cat in the Photo Channel is Rassie, the younger sister. Because in Japanese, she always ends her sentences with “~rashiiyo” (meaning “they say” or “I heard”...

Internet Channel developers discuss final version of Wii browser

Developers of the Internet Channel for Wii had a round table discussion and revealed some new info concerning the final build (with video examples). While this doesn’t exactly sound like the last version of the Internet Channel that we’ll see, it is exciting that the new version will have some dynamic differences from the Trial edition currently available. A few embellishments: updated...

Best Wii News Channel headline EVER

Nintendo (via the AP) has just released what is undeniably the best Wii News Channel headline there will ever be. This is a movie that simply needs to be made. The possibilites are endless and the consumers are ready.

New Mii Channel launches in April

Via Siliconera: During the Nintendo keynote Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that a new voting channel where people can vote on their favorite Miis was in the works. A message was sent to Japanese Wiis with the date of the new channel, April 29. In the channel players can pick one of two Miis as their favorite and results will be shown online, similar to the Everybody Votes channel. Are you ready? Are y...