Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:46
Opinion and Analysis
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May 30’s the day the Aussie Nintendo Channel comes your way, with tons
of videos to play, give Wii games you’ve played the recommendation yay
or nay and more, so Nintendo say, and it’s free to download with nothing to pay!
Heads up Wii owners, Nintendo is giving you more
reasons to keep that Wii remote in your hands and TV watchers at bay
with the launch of the Nintendo Channel, which Nintendo says is “an
interactive guide to what’s new in the world of Nintendo”.
The channel is free to download from the Wii Shop Channel and gives you a few interesting new capabilities.
These include lots of videos to watch, a way to search for Wii and
Nintendo DS games on sale at retail to see what their descriptions say
they’re all about, a recommendation service giving you a say on what
you think about the Wii games you’ve played, and a DS Download service
that can send game demos and videos to your Nintendo DS.
The video selection sounds promising and from is set to include
trailers (presumably for games and movies), mini-documentaries, TV
commercials, product demos and game play videos, with Nintendo
promising “more info” about the video content soon. If only they’d
included music videos as well, we could cheekily have renamed this
channel as NTV!
The games search function lets you search by “release date, platform,
publisher, genre, or by keywords” and gives you “more detailed
information” on the games you’re interested in.
Nintendo Wii owners who also own a Nintendo DS can download game demos
and videos wirelessly, right to the handheld console. They’ll stay
playable on the DS until you turn it off, after which you’d need to
re-transfer the content to watch or play it again.
The recommendation service lets you rate any games you’ve played on
your Wii for more than an hour, with Nintendo saying “everybody’s
opinion counts!”
Please read on to page 2 for more information including the location of
special websites on Nintendo's new and existing channels.
