Watching the photo channel in action

I think it will be attractive to the non-gamers. Right out the box, you don't need to physically go out and buy games for it. With wireless internet in your home and your credit card, you can be tempted time after time to download games from yesteryear and of course fiddle around with pictures from cameras.

I really don't see most gamers even fooling around with the picture channel... Or really any of the channels other than Mii Channel and Internet Channel (and of course the VC Channels, but that's not a non-gamer one). But I am looking forward to Picture Channel. I could have a lot of fun with that in periods of lull.

I think it will be fun to mess around with. I don't see it as being all that useful, but still...

Hopefully there will be built in functionality to send pictures to your friends through the Photo Channel. That would definitely be cool. Maybe if the kids tell grandma they can swap pictures with each other using the Wii she'd buy it just for that?

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Actually, you can send stuff from Wii to cellphones, computers, and other Wii (and vice versa).

Though this may be enticing to nongamers it still seems gimicky. I wish they would spend mor time making somes games that might attract gamers too. Like a sick online FPS, or an addicting MMORPG. I was really expecting Nintendo to be more gamer friendly including nongamer friendly. The things I want to see out of Nintendo in the future are more online games, more mature games, and less cell shaded games. I also think it would be cool if they had external hardrive capability so they could make an mmorpg. Like i said before i was really expecting more out of Nintendo, and unless they are hiding more info about their system i'm going to be relatively dissapointed. Thats not to sya i'm not still excited about the future of the Wii, i'm still dead set on buying it, on launch date. Woah sorta went overboard there. This is just my 2 cents, I hate that phrase.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Mii channel. Everyone I've talked to (and I) all seem to share the same opinion. Other than the Mii channel, there really wasn't anything else interesting (that's been shown so far).

I personally won't use most of the channels, but it's good to have just in case (if I'm planning to go somewhere, and want a quick look at the weather before putting down the controller).

isn't video compatability awesome???????

What the hell? Nintendo makes one cel-shaded game (Wind Waker) and suddenly all their games are cel-shaded?

And really, how is it that everyone has completely forgotten the success that is the DS? It was hardly selling at launch, and now look how far it has come. A little patience, my friends. Please.

HOLY SHIT!

Did you guys watch that video, or are you all too jaded?

Amazing software they put together there. Makes full use of the mote, and not just as a pointer.

What i meant by cel shaded is cartoony. A lot of their games seem very kidlike due to their graphical appearance.

I'm shocked these vids aren't receiving more praise. If this were an Apple product, there would be millions of Mac fanboys around the world creaming their pants.

The UI is really impressive stuff.