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Iwata Expands on Wii Video Service

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By Rob Crossley

April 8, 2009

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has elaborated on the group’s proposed on-demand video service for the Wii.

Little is known of Nintendo’s upcoming feature, yet Iwata elaborated that the “advertising-based” service has the potential to work on the DS as well as the Wii.

“If the Wii and the DS are connected, it should be possible to download video through the Wii and take it with you on the DS,” Iwata told the Wall Street Journal [sub].

Iwata also added that, as there’s already a number of on-demand video services, Nintendo will be addressing the feature differently “in a Nintendo-like way.”

The Nintendo company president confirmed that if the service does well in Japan, he would like to push it westward.

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On April 8th Ozzman_79 said:

I predict this service will bomb because the vast majority of Wii users won't be interested. They bought it to play games on.

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On April 8th NickgamertagO1 said:

"Nintendo will be addressing the feature differently “in a Nintendo-like way.” "

Nintendo-like, as in 2 years later than everyone else? You betcha.

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On April 8th DubsTF said:

This comment seems like a case of glass houses and stones given your unabashed support of the least original, most "ME TOO" company in the history of technology, i.e., Microsoft. How 'bout them avatars?

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On April 8th NickgamertagO1 said:

I'd have to disagree with you that MS is the least original and most "ME TOO" company. As far as their games division is concerned, they introduced many firsts into gaming consoles that were then "borrowed" by Nintendo and Sony. I could go on naming all of them which I won't, but my point which has been brought up multiple times in these forums is that everyone borrows from everyone, it's nothing new. Sometimes blatant rip-offs happen (avatars) and other times it's more of a hardware feature (built-in network adapters, hard drives, DD5.1, etc.).

Also, it's well known that Nintendo has a tendency to be late to the party when it comes to certain things. They were late with the adoption of disc-based mediums (N64 had cartridges, GCN had mini-DVDs), hardware storage mediums (small amount of internal flash memory with the Wii, only recently allowing use of SD cards for more than storing games), movie playback support (no Nintendo system still to this day can play DVDs without some kind of hack/mod), no DD5.1 audio support or 720p playback, and the inclusion of much of any kind of online multiplayer support (GCN missed the boat almost entirely and the Wii has minimal online multiplayer support and STILL no proper headset for voice support)

I think it's fair to say Nintendo is known for being late to the party in a lot of areas (except wand-waving gimmicks).

I kid. ^^

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On April 8th NickgamertagO1 said:

Normally that'd be a good dig, and I can see how you would think that. But on many cases I've been critical of MS, especially in their attempts at ripping Nintendo off. It may appear I'm a huge delusional fanboy that doesn't think MS' shit stinks. Well, I'm not and I don't. MS has done many things that I think are BS for example:

1) Attaching the Halo beta download code to Crackdown (a really fun game though), attaching the Mythic map-pack to the L.E of Halo Wars and not releasing the stand-alone DLC until over a month later (tomorrow actually), and most likely will do the same with Halo: ODST and the last map-pack for Halo 3. It's not that those games are bad in their own right, but extortion isn't a practice I'm too thrilled with and don't appreciate having to buy games I may not want just so I don't have to wait a month or more for some maps.

2) 3 year warranty is for RRoD ONLY, if your drive dies at 13 months your're shit-out-of-luck. 1 year warranty is the only one that covers everything.

Here is just one of my recent posts that was critical of MS...

"Nintendo has targeted a market MS and Sony neglected to realize existed and now they’re attempting to play on Nintendo’s ground by “borrowing” ideas (and will fail I’m quite confident). No matter how many ideas the Wii offered the 360 tries to rip off the casual consumer won’t recognize the 360 they way they do the Wii."