Computerandvideogames.com has a bunch of new pictures of the Wii browser in action. The browser's functionality is largely controlled by the Wii's directional pad which should make for generally quick navigation, presuming you don't need to type too much during your online browsing.
The simple-looking web browser will be controlled using the Wii Remote's pointer. A panel across the bottom of the screen appears to include back and forward-page buttons, an 'eject' button that presumably exits the browser, and a button with a star on it which we know to be for bookmarks.
Also, clearing up Nintendo's online charging system for the Wii, we are given the following description of the online payment structure:
The browser will be a downloadable option to all Wii owners, and will be free for the first six month, after which users will have to pay a small fee. Just to make it clear, these charges are only applied to web browsing. All of Wii's other online services, including online gaming, will be permanently free.
There are also pictures of the game boot-up screens, Mii editing and message boards in use included in the article.
I feel it's my duty to point out that instead of charging for the functionality that everyone wants, online gameplay, Nintendo has decided to charge for a completely superfluous function, web browsing, which is sure to generate enough money to produce a Yo! Noid sequel, that being nothing.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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ummm... are webpages going to be intelligible at 480p?? I've hooked my computer up to a SDTV via s-video before and anything less than 24 font wasn't readable. And how do you enter urls?? do they use a "pictochat" style keyboard?
anyhow, i'll get a wii.. but i'll do my webbrowsing on the pc.
Ummm... web browsing could be fine on SDTV if cone right. Anyone have satellite with a Guide or a TV with the Guide channell? Ummm yeah, it works.
Now for the incessant b***ing of people who don't want to pay for services, and the people slamming Xbox Live for charging a membership fee. Drumroll, please....
...to hear the first stories of PS3's and Wii's getting slammed with some nasty virus, because idiots were surfing for porn.
There's a very good reason the 360 doesn't have a browser. :O