Nintendo Channel coming to US with WiiWare launch

What seems half-assed about it?

No Demos = half-assed

I'd just like to see more Mii integration; since I doubt Nintendo will handle my other requests anytime soon.

Requests such as:
-Increased HD space either through ability of an external HD add-on recognition or better SD card saving ability
-Instead of releasing individual videos(or demos)as a channel, a single channel to download them from. Technically, the Shop Channel could have this subsection(it sort of does with MP3, but still)
-DROP THE DAMN PER-GAME FRIEND CODES. I can understand safety and all that rubbish, but if I've already got an address book with all the Wii-friends' system codes; why can't we just use that recognition to connect to them that way? I already send mail via that method afterall.
-Bluetooth usage for in-game chat to the aforementioned friends/opponents. My cellphone bill was through the roof the month 'BRAWL was released, LoL. >:\
-Someone mentioned it in another article, but where are those other console colours? :0 The immature side in all of us can't wait to hear someone ask for a "Yellow Wii, please" while waiting in the storeline for their less embarassing coloured one.
-Though various Nintendo VIPs have said they dislike it; for those whose like(or need)trophies & achievements to show off how 'special' they are, perhaps a "Wii High Scores" Channel(please feel free to come up with a better name, LOL); based off records on their savefiles or any newly released games that could send scoring data.

For a high score board, may I suggest "Wiiners"?

Mario Kart Wii has it's own channel for leaderboards. Its not a channel for every game, but it's a start.

If Nintendo wanted to do Bluetooth voice chat later on, they could implement it for the MKWii channel! (Start your e-mails...NOW!)

Comment of the week, definitely.

I laughed out loud and it is 2:01 am est best comment ever

Congratulations. Go enjoy your preferences in that corner while I look forward to this in my side.

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What was the =P for? I thought it was going to be a rickroll, but it wasn't.

The demos are optional... developers chose to release demos or not.

TellTales said that they are going to release a Demo for Stronge Bad.

If some developers have confirmed demos, why say there will be no demos? Meh.

The Wii needs a HDD, chop chop. 512mb does not cut it.

It doesnt need an HDD... it's just need support to read the games directly from the SD instead of copy the games from SD to the Wii memory.

A $15 2GB card can hold several 50MB games (the same size of the majority of 360 Live Arcade games)... plus a 50MB game from Live Arcade is 720P, so, an equivalent Wii game would be like 25MB because the lower resolution.

So, only SD support would be good. Besides, you dont need to save the videos that you can see in this channel, because is all streamed.

With Sony and Nintendo's reluctance to release demos (and perhaps with the latter, it's due to space limitation on the hardware), I'd be really curious to see Microsoft's numbers correlating the purchase ratio of users who try out the demos to see how many of them purchase the game on XBox Live.

I completely understand it's a time constraint on the developers who just want to release the best game possible as quickly as possible, but if a demo results in significantly more sales, you'd think they'd be more interested in it. *shrug*

@ Reboot

Actually, they seem to be selling LESS when there are demos. Check out the recent posts about it on Joystiq.

@Fernando: Being able to run games of an SD card would be nice, yeah- but if I were to purchase a ton of games from WiiWare and VC (which I can only assume Nintendo would want me to do), I don't want to have to swap cards or remember which card has which game, etc. I also don't want to have to buy SD cards when I have a perfectly viable USB hard drive. It would be so much easier and nicer if they just let me plug in my WD Passport and let me store everything in one place.

Fernando---
Buying SD cards for savefile backup or game downloading would be nice... if the damned console would actually do it for ALL of its software(I'm eyeing SSBBRAWL and VC downloads especially). All the supposed retorts of "security/piracy" issues are a crock-o-shiz too. How hard would it be to write code to let every VC title downloaded on a console to include that console's ID or MAC address so it couldn't be copied onto another one? Or at least go by the user's screen name/account information like the other two consoles. My greatest fear with the Wii is that if it gets a hardware failure or stolen somehow; because I can't recover anything without redoing the effort or repurchasing.

I wouldn't bitch about the Wii's hard drive space so much if it wasn't so inadequate - but it is, so I(and many others)do. And eff the whole "delete & redownload" thing; that's way too tedious and frankly shouldn't be necessary when the other consoles at least started off with at least 2O+ gigabytes of space this generation. I can understand wanting the system to be inexpensive, but c'mon...

Or a USB stick.

@FOXHOUND:
It's already possible to backup VC games onto an SD card. And trying to move them to another Wii, you get an error message saying it can't be copied to that system.

And if the system does break down, you can send it into Nintendo, and they can transfer your account to a repaired/replacement system.
As for stolen... Don't know about that.

"Half of me thinks they had this stuff ready all along, they just wanted to prove to everyone who bitched about the gamecube's online abilities that they could win without decent online ;-)"

If that's true(and at this point, wouldn't shock me), I'm duct taping the GCN broadband adapter I bought years back to a cinderblock and throwing it through their window. >:\

+1

I choked and laughed. XD