Nintendo Releases Wii Browser For Free, Updates Flash

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo has released an update for the Wii Internet Channel (a version of the Opera browser). It is now a free download (if you already paid for it, you get a free NES game), and finally supports Flash 9 content after being limited to Flash 7 ever since it was launched in late 2006."

Finally useful...

[Max Romantschuk]

...for watching videos on YouTube?

Haven't even bothered to install the browser so far, my wife's netbook runs circles around a Wii for couch surfing.

Actually I'm genuinely curious: Who uses the Wii browser and for what?

Re:The Wii is on the way down

[pat sajak]

I don't know about that... Remember when the Wii was the "cheap" system? Now we have a $200 xbox and a $300 ps3, both half their original launch prices. But the Wii has actually gone up from $269 to $279 (inflation?). (Canadian prices) There's a reason the other guys are aggressively lowering their prices...

come on nintendo

[Neotrantor]

enough of this crap. we want the zelda game intended for the wii and chrono trigger on virtual console. get off your fat asses plz plz

Re:The Wii is on the way down

[Anne Thwacks]

Wii have one, and ot be honest, wiifit is the only game worth playing - mostly because the developers have not followed the UI standards, and generally followed the same look and feel. The result is that the games appear badly implemented.

It may be that Nintendo do not supply guidelines in writing, but if the develoeprs had actually used a Wii before writing ther games, wii would not be faced with the POS tha is our limited choice. Several times we have gone out to buy games for a party or other excuse, and come back wiht dross because we felt obliged to buy *something*. Honestly, the Wii market is desperate for any new game that is playable.

I remain in home of a multi-player World Mapouka Championship, but I am not hlding my breath. (It it was released, I might end up holding some other part of my anatomy :-)

Re:The Wii is on the way down

[Anonymous Coward]

It's easy to make something look good when every other word is a qualifier.

42" browsing?

[jonaskoelker]

Actually I'm genuinely curious: Who uses the Wii browser and for what?

Browsing the web on a very bright 42" monitor is kinda' cool :)

With a wiimote, it means you'll have neither of: a hot laptop on your ball sack; or a desk between the couch and your TV.

Re:Finally useful...

[tomhudson]

Weather channel. Since I leave mine on all the time (unlike the other consoles, the Wii is a power miser, 18 watts peak draw during a game, as opposed to 250 watts), it's quick and easy to get my local weather.

Or if I need something more up-to-date, open the wii opera browser and go to the latest official forecast, which is updated quicker [weatheroffice.gc.ca].

Re:42" browsing?

[Anonymous Coward]

1) "If you can afford X, then you can afford Y" is always a bad argument.

2) Your solution is a pain in the ass, not nearly as intuitive.

3) The Wii's screen resolution is just fine for most pages, and if it isn't you can zoom out or scroll left and right.

Re:hahah finally :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Until the system runs out of memory loading a decent game.

Re:Not Flash 9 content !

[Khyber]

If the software advertises itself as Flash 9, it better fucking be flash 9. Plain and simple.

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