The Gamer's Quarter

[danger dangler]

Relating to when you think already set channels are going to be available and consideration to as-of-yet unannounced Channels.

Just as I was writing the above sentence, I began to consider some sort of streaming music channel for game music remixes. Or even a channel that allows you to do some basic audio manipulation yourself.

I'm also grateful Nintendo put the Weather/News Channel on so I don't have to worry about buying either later. Wish I could say the same for the Opera browser.

Yes?

[dessgeega]

i've heard a few vague things about a moderated channel for independent game development / distribution. is there any sign of nintendo actually considering this?
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[danger dangler]

I think it would probably end up part of the Virtual Console protocol.

The Virtual Console is interesting, yet I'm a little disappointed it's not quite as sophisticated or put together as something like itunes. Not just from an aesthetic standpoint; by their point system and point packages. The whole thing smacks of wasted potential. Maybe they'll clean and shine the thing in some time. Likely not.

I wouldn't be shocked to see a Digipen selection pop up sometime.

[dessgeega]

narbacular drop wii would be keen.
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[Nana Komatsu]

I think the part about the Virtual Console that people didn't realize was that it's taking some effort on the part of Nintendo/third parties to get their games working on the Wii. It doesn't sound like drop-in emulation that would enable the whole library to be available at launch (as was speculated), and thus we have twelve games a month (or however many).

Edit: also a puppies and kitties channel would be nice. Wii Kitten War would be awesome.

[dongle]

Can we please have online multiplayer for the VC games?

I would also fully support a kitty channel.

[Harveyjames]

[Maz]

This would never happen, but I'll throw it out anyway.

A mixture of http://www.liveplasma.com/ and mobygames. Basically a big directory of games and their creators that one could sift through using the remote to navigate in a really tactile way. The channel would read your save data and perhaps highlight games in your collection in the navigator as you browse. Build into that descriptors of the games by genre, general thematic outlines, shared traits, etc. As the Virtual Console store fills up you could create links from the games in the directory to the VC store.

The role of all this is to perhaps expand the culture a bit more, bringing the names of the individual staff and development studios to the fore, as well as allowing to people to look at titles in a more sophisticated fashion than an A-Z listing or simplistic genre outlines.

[dongle]

OH goodness I would love to see some endorsed homebrew on the Wii, preferably with an open devkit. I felt bad that I had to get um yarr equipment to do homebrew on my DS.

[Harveyjames]

[Nana Komatsu]

[Shapermc]

[simplicio]

[Tim]

They promised TG-16 games at launch (which we just got last week).

Space Harrier 2 and Gunstar Heroes were also supposed to be available.

[Isfet]

i'm curious what News will consist of. will it be something that you pick and choose for yourself (as in you select the kind of news you want to receive), or are they actually going to be hiring people to sort through wires and pick out stories? or will it be some kind of wire feed? where will they get the news from?

will Nintendo become a political force to be reckoned with?

haha i kid.

[Lestrade]

I hoping you can enter the URL of an RSS feed for the News Channel. I want to point my Wii to CBC so I can check the news each morning on my TV.

[Harveyjames]

[OtakupunkX]

[ApM]

[dongle]

[Wilkes]

[dessgeega]

a nintendo-hired meteorologist would have to have one an appropriate meteorologist name. like "ice world".
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[Maz]

The New Games Meteorology Manifesto

[Wilkes]

[danger dangler]

[danger dangler]

I wonder if they would include news about updates to Virtual Console releases and other games.

I imagine they could integrate the whole thing pretty clean!

[Harveyjames]

Hmm. That would be pretty weird though. Mixing biased advertising with supposedly impartial news is never a good idea. I suppose if they stuck 'advertisement' at the top of the Wii-related news they could pull it off.

[JasonMoses]

A channel to play music off an SD card. You can already choose mp3s to play during a slideshow in the photo channel!

I personally dig what the VC is doing. Not as much as I could be, probably, but I like getting excited about possible new games from the past every week. Clearly my expectations for the wii in general are far lower than most people's!

[danger dangler]

[Shapermc]

[Wilkes]

I hope Toshio Iwai makes a VC "game" -- or even a channel -- instead of a seperate Wii title. I think there's probably a lot of potential in the combination of large-capacity SD cards, the Wii Remote and WiiConnect24.
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[SuperWes]

Personally, I like the idea of making a majority of the channels mostly disconnected with videogames. The music off of an SD card idea is great, and I'd love to see a Mario skin, but the main skin would need to be something that's more neutral. I'd prefer that the news channel have an option to include things like videogame news and virtual console announcement, but by default they should assume that people are more interested in things like local news and sports. Even if the channels will end up being used primarily by gamers, people like my mom would be more interested in the system if it didn't act like gamers were priority number one.

-Wes
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[dongle]

I hope we get some quirky "new media" type channels. Things that aren't necessarily games but take advantage of the input to do something new. I'm thinking things like experimental music interfaces and the like.

[player 2]

I want to see The Movies come out on the Wii along with a channel for all of your friends' movies.
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[dessgeega]