Straight from 1984 is this list of features from the mysterious Wii Message Board over on Club Skill. The Message Board is described as "a pool of interaction" for "the whole family to get involved with." You will apparently be able to leave messages for other household members, reminders, and in general sounds a bit like any other calender program, except it's designed for multiple users.

But take the thing online and even more features open up, including the ability to notify your friends of new game purchases by posting your acquisitions on their home bulletin boards.

Nintendo told about their new feature, the 'Play History,' which records how long you spend playing each individual game, to produce interesting statistics. [...]

It also means that parents and spouses can check up on their children/partners - an alternative to the rather daunting original suggestion of allowing parents to allow the system to automatically switch off after a set amount of time.

This system may later, says Iwata, be used to collect global information about the hours spent playing any particular games, and could be used to "compile data on which game was the most played that year." Eliza Gauger

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