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11/23/09
11/23/09
- SD cards have been useable with the wii downloads for ages now. So there is PLENTY of storage space.
Granted I don't know if this service uses it
11/23/09
11/23/09
Of course you could always do what I have done and soft mod your wii and attach a 1.5TB drive to it so you can use the homebrew channel to play files from it.
11/23/09
11/23/09
I've found very little about this in English but you may be correct, however it seems strange if you cannot considering that there is going to be/is a free DSi ware channel allowing you to transfer stuff over to the DSi and watch it there.
Of course being able to stream shows as with the Iplayer removes any problems with storage.
11/23/09
The last true gaming console was Dreamcast and Gamecube... they did not need to play movies or bull shit... they delivered simply by gaming.
11/23/09
A multimedia center is much better in my eyes, because its more bang for your buck. A pure game console would a) have to be really cheap and b) have really amazing games to keep anyone interested. Clearly, that didn't work out in the Dreamcast or Gamecubes favor.
11/23/09
Sony's getting a waggle stick (and 360 is getting Eyetoy 3.0) Whatever.
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11/25/09
Wii gets downloadable TV, MOVIES. So, yes, Wii plays movies.
#speakup
11/25/09
2 people? You HAVE to be kidding me... More like 20,000 people... I've seen N-boys all over the place say that. "What's with (name of non-gaming feature), the Wii is actually a game machine, it doesn't do all those other things"
I see those kind of comments ALL THE FREAKING TIME. So yeah, not just 2 people.
11/23/09
Still it's not bad I guess roughly 75p per tv show.
11/23/09
11/23/09
@mariospants: You mean a game where you shoot down elmos? That would be therapeutic for some.
#speakup
11/23/09
11/23/09
I don't know about this service but the BBC's Iplayer channel uses 59 blocks of memory for its streaming service. The quality is definitely watchable, the only problem I've had was whilst watching the latest Life nature programme, it struggled during a scene of Monarch butterflies hibernating in which there were hundreds flying at once on screen.
I watched the film "Goodnight and Good Luck" with absolutely no problems at all on my widescreen HD TV something you couldn't do when you had to use the Iplayer through the internet channel.
04/30/09
04/30/09
Wait, are there any Wii-fanboys in this site to begin with?
04/30/09
sorry, maybe you all just ACT like twelve year olds?
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But sadly they will :(
04/30/09
What's wrong with it? Other than the fact that it's on a system you don't like.
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04/30/09
Pfft...fanboy.
@Sutekh_Slain: Regardless, its an extra option that we have as consumers. What's wrong with that?
05/01/09
It's frustrating when Nintendo half-ass things like this. You can watch tv on your wii, but only wii programming, not regular programming.
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04/23/09
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04/23/09
Does Nintendo really need to collect data so they can make more shitty Wii-whatever game?
04/23/09
This online book details some of their earlier strategies for market research: [www.nesplayer.com]
Although I do agree with you, most of what they make is crap to hardcore gamers.
04/23/09
@MellowJade:
You both got it twised. Nintendo doesn't make the majority of those shovelware games that appear on their system. Third parties do. Take out your hate sessions on the Ubisofts, EA Games, etc. out there.
Jesus fucking christ! If you're going to hate on the system, instead of regurgitating that same old tired internet bullshit, at least no what you're talking about.
I bet if I asked you both to make a list of all of Nintendo's first party shovel ware games against the core games that they made:
1.) you couldn't
2.) if you could you'd be surprised
I'm out
04/23/09
Nintendo makes quite a few first-party-shovelware-games.
Ever heard of WiiPlay? WiiFit? WiiMusic? WiiSports?
04/23/09
Nintendo loosely regulates over what they have direct control over. They can't do too much more because then silly taints like you would scream that it's the 80's all over again when Nintendo only allowed publishers to put out two games a year on their system and publishers would simply go publish their shovelware on the 360 and PS3 (And most already -DO-)
Get your facts in order and stop living up to the Kotaku Facebooker stigma.
04/23/09
04/23/09
Does it actually ask for their blood type or is that sarcasm I'm detecting?
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