It came with the news and forcast channel already loaded. I had a little trouble getting it to play nicely with my router. All I had to do was tell it to you a different DNS. Once online I downloaded the voting channel and opera browser. Question, will we have to actually purchase the wii browser in June/July when it is no longer a free trial? It seems that it might happen like that. I created a few Mii's, played the hell out of sports. Unfortunately had to play solo as I could not find a wii-mote or wii play anywhere. Will try again today. The only reason I got one is I finally got a nice manager who told me approx when he was receiving his stock. Got there about 20min before that and was first in line. By the time it showed up the 3 he was getting were spoken for by me, some other guy about my age, 31, and a 40+ yr old. I queried the manager about how sales have been and he said that the Wii is sold like this everytime in every gamestop/ebgames in town. Not in the store for more than a few mins. However, the PS3, which was sold out at that time, usually stays in stock for a week or so. EDIT: Got Wii play today w/ nunchuck.