http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20081224/wr_nm/us_nintendo_dentsu

TOKYO (Reuters) - Game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will team up with ad agency Dentsu Inc to launch a video distribution service on the Wii console, in a move to establish a new revenue stream, the Nikkei business daily said.

The two firms plan to offer cartoons and other entertainment programmes created for the new service to differentiate it from other online content delivery operations, which often offer existing programmes, the Nikkei said on Thursday.

Nintendo and Dentsu will start the new service early next year in Japan, followed by overseas launches later in the year, the paper said.

The Wii, which features a motion-sensing controller that looks like a TV remote, has been far outselling Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)

Thoughts?

with this new content, nintendo better release a hdd sometime next year then.

Unless of course they ask the Wii users to download one show at a time...

Or use their SD cards as the storage medium... I dunno, to me this seems like the most viable solution at this point.

can’t they just stream things?

Interesting. Lots of Manga FTW!

I would imagine it's streaming, not downloading.

It also sounds like it will be free, as it's being run by an advertising company

great!!

all we need for storage is 32gb SD support : )

wow, really good catch. if it hits overseas, I'd definitely like to try it.

That's how I originally read it, and I started laughing. I didn't realize Nintendo was so straightforward about their opinions regarding their competitors products. :P