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The Wii's "Nintendo Channel" just went live, giving you a way to both watch trailers of current and upcoming Nintendo games, and feed Nintendo information on what games you play. What's the latter for? So Nintendo can better customize the trailers of games to recommend to you, thus making you buy more games and completing the cycle by feeding THOSE stats back to them. How good is it? Okay, I suppose. The other stuff, like downloading DS demos and finding game information (how many players, whether the nunchuck is supported) is more useful. Hit the jump for a huge gallery tour.
The trailers aren't HD trailers like you get on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. It's more like grainy YouTube videos before YouTube raised the quality of their videos. You can pause, and you can skip around in the video by hitting B. The videos go fullscreen if you click on them. There are DS titles, which is nice. Edit</>: Corrected errors.
Downloading DS demos is probably a big part of why you'd use this channel. It's easy, just flip on the DS, pick a demo, and start transferring.
The titles section lets you see what's upcoming and get relevant game stats. There's little worse than buying a game you think is multiplayer and getting home and finding out that it's for you only. Or just plain lousy, in the case of Iron Man, but the Nintendo Channel doesn't give game ratings. It does give you a big image of the box art though.
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If you click the video it goes to fullscreen. I think if you press B you get options like rewind.
@Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc: You're right, thanks!
I personally don't own a DS. I think it would be a lot better if they made demos for the Wii as opposed to the DS. I mean, after all we are accessing these demos on the WII.
Some videos are in 16x9 and do take up the whole screen you just have to click on the video or press the + button on the Wii remote. There don't seem to be any results from user recommendations yet they should be up soon.
@ChChChacos: Wii Demos are supposed to come soon... YAY
@thegermandude517: Source?
Downloaded tonight. Very cool. I am mostly looking forward to DS demos, and if they provide Wii demos in the future that would really be a nice addition. On another note, I saw the Wii Fit demonstrated in NYC today as a New York Times reporter took notes and had folks try it out. I was interested in it before, but now not so much.
Yay! Nintendo has finally heard our cries for more content and has given us...
*download*...the infomercial channel.
Um, thanks?
I installed this tonight, and the DS demos are totally working for Nintendo, because I'm gonna pick up a couple of games I would have otherwise walked right by if not for getting a chance to play the demos and finding them fun.
I like pie!
@chucklebuck: yeah, seriously. First time a demo worked on me ever = jam sessions.
hey, this channel is in shop channel Wii software - wii chanels right? why i don't have it?
The best part is that on May 12th, we are going to get WiiWare! I like the idea of being able to download cheap games like the FF demo in the videos. I will gladly pay $10 for a crappy game, vs. $39 to find out that it is crappy once I get it home...
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