Game's Influence

With an Interview with Reggie Fils-Aime, Reggie announced that the WiiWare service will be available in the US on May 12, 2008. He also confirmed that Wii Fit will be launching on May 19th here in the US with the price that will be “less than $100″.

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I noticed this when I first downloaded the Forecast Channel, one very bizarre aspect of the Wii’s Forecast Channel is the Icons used to display a general description of the weather. Looking at places like the United States, you see some dull icons, you know the standard graphical cloud maybe with rain or snow on it, but if you get the information for cities in Japan, you get “fun” icons, like umbrellas, cartoon clouds, the Japanese style sun, and even a a cute little snowman. My question is, “why can’t we have the cute little snowman?”

      

      

I was trying to find the weather for were my sister lives, dsfdfgdfgsdf, I was surprised to find only one location in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was shown in the Wii’s Forcast Channel, population of more than 300,000. Easter Island, with a population of only less than 4,000, weather is shown. Upper Peninsula of Michigan has a population of more than 300,000. Now in areas of high population, like New York, you see clusters of information, you see the weather for areas just a few miles from each other. Someone who lives in these areas doesn’t need that much accuracy, don’t you think it would be a little more helpful to put Doesn’t that seem a little unhelpful, wouldn’t it make more sense to put a weather report in an area located 100s of miles from another report than to put in next to one thats 2 miles closer than another.

        

Another weird thing about the Forecast Channel involves it’s rotation of the 3D globe, well not weird, will just unnecessary. The rotation of the globe doesn’t allow you to pass through the south poll, tho it’s not a big deal, almost not worth mentioning but it would be slightly more fun spinning the globe with no restrictions.

On October 9, Nintendo sent out three messages through the Wii’s internal messaging system. The first message included information, informing Wii owners that a new system update was available. The new update includes partial inclusion of keyboard functionality. Get full use of keyboard functionality you must do as the message states. You must go to Wii Shop Channel, and download the updated Internet Channel and Everybody Votes Channel. After downloading updates you can now use the keyboard and many more functions of the Internet Channel and Everybody Votes Channel. The update also allowed users to insert links into their messages. And surprisingly, even though two messages included references to websites these links were not present. To insert link you must type “http://” before the address.

Dear Customer,

We would like to inform you that you can now update your Wii Menu to version 3.1. To do this, please select the “Update” button at the bottom of your screen.

Please note that you can now use a USB keyboard with the Wii Menu.

Please go to www.nintendo.com to learn which keyboards can be used.

**If you’ve updated your system on or after October 10, you may already have the latest version of the system software and do not need to perform this update again.

Dear Customer,

We’d like to inform you that the Everybody Votes Channel has been updated to work with Wii Menu version 3.1. We recommend that you download the latest version of the Everybody Votes Channel if you have not already done so.

You can download the latest version of the Everybody Votes Channel through the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop Channel.

Updating or Downloading the Channel [Both are free of charge.]

1- Select the Wii Shop Channel from the Wii Menu.
2- Select the Everybody Votes Channel from the WiiWare section, and download the software.

The Wii User Agreements have been updated and are effective as of October 10, 2007.

Dear Customer,

Because you and your use of the Wii Network Service are subjected to the updated user agreements, we strongly recommend that you review the updated agreements by selecting the Wii icon located on the lower-left portion of the Wii Channel menu, selecting “Wii Settings,” accessing the “Internet” setting, and selecting “User Agreements.”

You may also review the updated Wii User Agreements at support.nintendo.com.

Opera has also announced that they would be allowing widgets, such as calendars and internet radios, to work with the Wii Internet browser. To see these with its click the following link. http://widgets.opera.com