Wii Channels

Everybody Votes: "By this time next year, I will be…" with video game personalities

The voting channel is perhaps the least liked of all the current Wii Channel fare because, well, it’s kind of campy and doesn’t do much of anything. The current “question” up for vote at the Everybody Votes Channel is “By this time next year, I will be”¦” with “Better off” and “The same/worse off” as the choices. That said, I thought it’d be fun to go outside the channel̵...

Internet Channel – Opera gives a little update

The folks at Play-Nintendo got some info from Opera about the future of Wii’s Internet Channel. Not all (or even most) of their questions were answered, but a couple new revelations popped up: Opera and Nintendo are planning the release for the final version of the browser for late March/early April. The browser for Wii will be regularly updated. Hopefully future updates will allow for Java ...

No Mii birthdays on Wii

Birthday boy Scott at numberless.net was anticipating a celebration of his birth like none ever experienced before. At the very least, I expected my Mii to be wearing a party hat. In my most grandiose expectations, however, I imagined that when the player entered the Mii Channel, the birthday Mii would be front-and-center, and all the other Mii’s would be throwing confetti, jumping up and do...

Virtual Console’s hidden "Warp Zone"

A not so well hidden “Warp Zone” has popped up in the Virtual Console Channel on European consoles. Wandering onto the Virtual Console to check out the latest update, we spotted a text-drawn smiley face on the front page which, when clicked, took us to a “secret” page of the Virtual Console. The following page reads: “Welcome to the Warp Zone! … Congratulations,...

Reggie hints at ‘Nintendo Power Channel’

In a recent interview with MTV (you know, the one where Reggie said Metroid 3 was probably delayed and wouldn’t have online play), an interesting bit about a Nintendo Power Wii Channel popped up. “We have a tremendous amount of old Nintendo Power content … that we could present to consumers,” Reggie told MTV.” Ever since I moved out of the ol’ Castle de Cougar o...

Mini-poll – Everybody Votes, or do they?

Nintendo won my heart on Valentine’s Day with the release of the new Everybody Votes Channel. Polls are fun, but adding my Mii to the experience just takes it to a whole nuther level. As much as I love them, there are bound to be people who don’t. This week’s mini-poll* asks: Do you like polls? Yes No *it’s a mini-poll because the weekend and a new Infendo Radio are almost ...

Belated Valentine’s Day greeting from Nintendo of America

Nintendo of America posted a sort of Valentine’s Day greeting on their press site. I wonder if Reggie Fils-Aime, George Harrison, and Perrin Kaplan actually created those Miis or not. The one for Reggie will haunt my dreams.

Wii Weather Channel: Yet another porn gateway

From GameSetWatch: Japanmanship has a really fun post about the Wii weather channel, most specifically: “There is an island in the Pacific, south of Port Vila, called Erromango; it’s the southern-most province of Vanuatu and formerly known as Martyr’s.” But the odd translation has it as “Ero-manga island”, and: “For the benefit of those who don’t spe...

More from the Perrin Kaplan show

Perrin Kaplan needs her own sitcom. Or comic strip. Or something. At DICE this week, Kaplan did as Kaplan does and tossed out a few verbal gems to the gaming community. Kaplan says of the two system launches in November: “Well, we didn’t have anyone in line that got shot waiting for our system. So there’s one sign of the different approaches between our two companies … I th...

Wii Channels and niches

Everyone talks about the potential of Wii Channels — what could come to be, what’s already here; how wild ideas will probably never see the light of day but sound really, really cool (Wii Cricket Channel, anyone?). The reason I ramble today is that IGN Wii has some slick mock-ups on their site today of pipe dream future Wii channels. Examples include the Wii Stock Channel, Sports Chann...