there was no mention of a new channel. Just a surprise

the surprise was brawl online. It's done. Over. There's the surprise.

bah i wanted more

Reggie said that a big surprise was coming to the Wii by the end of September, signified by the flashing blue light on the DVD drive. I don't think my Wii did anything when brawl online was announced. I wasn't watching it at the time either so maybe I'm wrong.

i thought it was that zelda was the pack in game. oh yeah.........snoozer.

Surprise on Sept. 30th?

Surprise hasn't hit yet... and they are running out of time.

It will definitely be something delivered to each Wii (WiiConnect or downloadable) - now just some vague game announcement. There is so much they could do - it wouldn't be hard to do something. 

I thought they were going to use it to counter Halo3 - maybe just before H3 released. But maybe (wisely?) they decided to wait until after Halo - or maybe that the surprise is still being tweaked and polished for release.

...

Metroid Dread would be possible (free/purchasable downloadable online shooter?) - or maybe its free/available only if you own Metroid (now *that* would be a smart move!).

I think that would fall into the category of a "surprise" :)

(may also mean that us poor European users get shafted... again!) 

I can confirm that I overheard management from a major publisher say this: Wii titles are in development that include DS demos (built-in). So you do something in game, and can then send an app to your DS.

So its definitely possible, and definitely coming. I would love the DS demo download channel more than anything in the world!

Hard drive or Saturn games on VC.

Surely they won't wait any longer to announced a Hard Drive with Turbo and Super CD games coming on VC and WiiWare starting soon.

Square and Nintendo team up again to bring us Zelda RPG.

or

A side scrolling metroid for DS.

or

VC d/l for DS

We will hear of  these this gen.

Edit: oh its for wiiconnect24..

DOH

 Metroid Dread is very possible, there are a lot of signs pointing towards it happening.  I believe you will need the game to play it as it should be loadable from the Prime 3 menu in the extra's area.  There were many rumors of map updates for Prime 3 way before it came out.  No one was sure if they were just extra levels to play in single player mode or online maps.  The external storage support, we've known about that since the spring when they signed the deal with the company developing the driver for the Wii.  The driver company accidently sent out a press release stating what Nintendo purchased from them.

Now, I wonder if Nintendo delayed this from happening today for a reason....

If you live in Europe... it's not the best deal but at least it's more insentive to get the game on release.