Wii news Channel alive and kicking

Nintendo did it again. This morning when I came downstairs my Nintendo Wii was asking for my attention by flashing it’s drive slot. That normally means that there is a message.

So today it was a message from Nintendo telling me that the News Channel was live and ready to go. Didn’t they plan this for tomorrow (January 27th)?????

A well it’s here. Just follow the update instructions (a new firmware update i guess) and after a couple of minutes the news channel is ready to go.

As in the news earlier this week Nintendo has made a deal with AP (associated press) to supply them with the news for the Wii. And that should mean that we get up to date news

I just did a quick look around before i wrote this review but i wanted to get the news to you as quick as i could.

The first time you start the news channel the news still needs to get downloaded this takes a couple of minutes but i guess that in the future Wiiconnect24 will make sure that it stays up to date. When you are waiting may have a little click on the cat on top

After the loading is done you can select a category to see the news messages in that group. You can also go to the globe (same one as in the weather channel) and look at the globe for news from different area’s of the world. And the more you zoom in the more it will be for that region.

The news on it self is good (as we could expect from AP) and it seems to be up to date. You can easily scroll through the message and zoom in and out. You can also click on pictures to make the big to fill the screen.

All with all a nice new FREE feature for the Wii. I will have some fun with it but i don’t know if it will really make me skip watching the news

Written by George on January 26th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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