New Nintendo to feature news, weather
Cory Bergman September 25th, 2006
The new Nintendo gaming system Wii is hitting store shelves in November, and it will have news and weather channels built in. They use Wii’s funky little remote control, which is basically a cross between a laser pointer and a mouse (as TVs get bigger, this technology should be part of every remote control.) Check out the video demo for the weather channel here, which features a grab-and-spin globe and a zoomable map — cool, eh? And it reinforces the point that these gaming platforms are actually media centers with a broadening range of uses. (Thanks, Dave!)
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1. Felix | September 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
The Wii will also include a free, fully-featured web browser out of the box (Opera). This could be pretty revolutionary in that consumers will get instant-on web-access on their TV (something that the XBox can’t deliver for fear of cutting into MS’s PC market). Also, the Wii controller is perfectly suited to work with mouse based interfaces.
2. Mike | September 26th, 2006 at 6:22 am
As far as I’ve seen, Opera is not included out of the box. Web connectivity (for weather, news, gaming, update downloads, and purchasing vintage games) is, as you say, always on, always free, wireless, and ready to go out of the box.
However, the Opera browser will be sold seperately and must be downloaded. So sayeth the folks at Joystiq, who’ve actually read the press releases and attended the media events.
Still…I’m looking forward to it.
3. david johnson | September 26th, 2006 at 9:58 am
see… see… SEE?
4. Mike | September 26th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
And today, Opera announced that the Wii version of the browser will be a free download until June ‘07. So basically the opposite of what I said.
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