Nintendo announced today in a press release that many of the Wii's online functions would not be available when the system launches in North America on Sunday. The release reveals the forecast channel will debut on Dec. 20, while the news channel (with content from the Associated Press) will debut Jan. 17 of next year. The release also suggested that the Wii's Opera browser would not be available for download immediately, saying "more information about the availability of the browser will be released in the coming weeks."
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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Grrrr Nintendo your like a See-Saw you'll bring my hopes up then you'll bring them down UP then Down Up the down! Stop it and give me more ups! Gameing has all moved to online the only way This console will be good is if the online is acually none laggy and you can interact with the people such threw a mic! Its what all video games are moveing too Not to many people buy games just for single player enymore BESIDES ZELDA haha but seriously Just start giveing me some good news I want to injoy The Wii just as much as I injoy my 360.
You've got to admit, compared to the PS3 and 360, it is amazing how little people care about the problems. I'm going to walk into a shop on SUnday and complete my Wii60, and the lack of full featured online doesn't bother me at all on the wii.
I think all the hatered is being used up bu the Sony/MS camp.
i think these online functions means alot to nongamers, so Nintendo if u wanna sell wii to them u better work harder!
Well dang it! Now I guess I'm forced to do nothing but play some sweet games for the Nintendo Wii. I mean come on since when has video game consoles been about playing games?
Okay sarcasm aside I don't feel this will be a problem seeing that yes the gamers will go for the Wii first and word of mouth will get non-gamers in just in time for all the non gaming stuff to launch