Proving that there’s more to gamers than just itchy X-button fingers, Nintendo will roll out its new Wii News Channel tomorrow. The ambitious addition will be available to any Wii user with a broadband Internet connection and the Opera Web browser.News will be delivered in multiple languages and will come free of charge to users. The formatting sounds like it’s going to be pretty interesting, as well.
Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo’s U.S. VP for marketing, has been quoted as saying the news will be displayed via an interactive map that users can navigate with the nifty remote.
“The beauty of it is it zooms in and out of areas of the world," she said.
"So if you really want to focus on regional news or national news versus international, you just blow up the map of the US," she added.
News will come via the Associated Press, so it’s likely the Wii channel will be well updated on events. The languages of choice will be English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German and Swiss-German.
Japanese news will come from Goo.
While this particular move isn’t one that’s likely to interest young gamers, it does provide a unique way to make the console more useful in the overall entertainment lineup in a home.
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