Very impressed with Wii online

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ckmlb said:

rocketpig said:

Fuzzmosis said:
Rocketpig: While demos would be cool, I'm just curious how videos are of use to an actual gamer... seeing as gamers play games? Online play, true, unless you count Strikers and Pokemon. So, not true. Weakest, absolutely. True? Nope.

And Weather channel was interesting, but doesn't get much love, and for news, I just use the trusty internet.

Game videos and trailers are of interest to gamers and XBL has loads of them.

As much as Nintendo and its fans claim to be all about the games, their online strategy says the exact opposite. I just wish they would get on the wagon and start offering more interesting content. Then again, maybe they're just waiting for this whole internet fad to blow over.

 

The fact is Nintendo does everything on the cheap. The slow internet support is because they don't want to spend money. Since their console is selling with like no online, they will do it on the cheap and make very little online anything on the Wii for a while.

Just look at Pokemon DS, they knew it would sell insanely well so they made it as cheaply as they could have.

 

You make it sound like this is a bad thing! Nintendo is now a larger company than the entirety of Sony precisely because of this type of behavior. 

I personally don't  care much for the weather or news channels either, but they're great for my Mom (especially Weather). I showed her the Wii, and she instantly was interested in the system when I showed her the weather channel. She's very poor at internet surfing and avoids it whenever possible.