Tech with a twist of lime! & FLHybrid Club.

Crave reports: 1/25

With all the popularity of our recent Wii posts I present this to the community to gauge interest in further gaming posts.

Wow, you really can do just about everything with your Wii. You can play tennis or baseball, check the weather, fight bad guys...and now, stay informed on what's going on in the world. On Saturday, the "Wii News Channel" will be launching, available on all Wii consoles that have Internet-browsing capabilities through the downloadable Opera browser. News will be supplied by the Associated Press, which has inked a two-year deal with Nintendo. So far, it's just news stories and photographs, but you never know what they might add next. This way, you can take a break from Wii Tennis, check the results of the latest high-profile tournaments, and see how you match up to Roger Federer.

I wonder if this feature will be clogged with commercials just like regular TV news.

News will be delivered in the same manner that Nintendo delivers The Weather Channel to Wii customers. The picture quality with most televisions is awful, I've hooked my computer up to my television on a few occasions, standard definition televisions (SDTV) are horrible for viewing text. The only way to get legible text on SDTV is to make the text huge, most news articles from the Associated Press are wicked long, I'm wondering how much time will be wasted scrolling in this news app, will it be quicker just to go to the computer or pick up the newspaper?

What do you think, will people actually use this feature more than just testing it out? Or has Nintendo wasted valuable resources on a useless feature when they could have been fixing bugs or writing new games?

Kacey Green
www.GRLT.com
"Tech with a twist of lime!"

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Kacey Green said:

If I had a Wii I'd try this out, but I couldn't see this being something I'd use on a regular basis.

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