Nintendo Wii Lacks Web Browser And Two Channels At Launch
Published by sickr 1 year, 10 months ago in News.
Whilst the Nintendo Wii is set to make its long awaited début in the United States this weekend, news has filtered through that suggests the revolutionary new console is set to lack a few of its proposed components at launch.
Online news publication Gamesindustry.biz states that highly anticipated console won’t come equipt with the proposed ‘News Channel’ or the ‘Weather Channel’ which were both set to become an integral part of the Wii experience.
The Associated Press backed ‘News Channel’ isn’t set to début until January 27th 2007, whilst the region specific weather channel won’t be available for consumer use until December 20th, which is just in time for Christmas.
What is set to be a far larger blow to prospective Wii owners is that the intuitive Opera based Wii web-browser is still without a proposed release date, although Nintendo have stated that more details regarding web access will be provided within the coming months.
[via gamesindustry]
Meh… A browser is an okay idea but I use a laptop… also, the weather channel isn’t a big deal, but I’d love to scope out the news every morning on teh Wii!
I think simple features like this should’ve been finished by release. Those two channels are no big deal to me, but I find it hard to figure why they couldn’t have been available. I still haven’t been able to connect my Wii to Wifi, it freezes up when it tries to download an update.