Nintendo TVii Service Will Go Dark August 11th 34
Kotaku reports that Nintendo has announced it will shutter its Wii U TVii in just a few weeks; after August 11th, the service will be no more. The description that Kotaku offers gives some idea of why: Nintendo TVii promised to turn television watching into a robust social experience, tracking users' favorite shows, making suggestions based on familial preferences, integrating with all of the major streaming video services, programming DVR recordings and acting as a second screen experience on the Wii U game pad. It sounded pretty amazing.
It wasn’t really. It was awkward and fumbling and a year later the Xbox One came along with its HDMI pass-through and voice-controlled TV watching and made Nintendo TVii look silly."
"...tracking users' favorite shows.." (Score:2)
Tracking users' favorite shows? (Score:2, Insightful)
Do you want to lose users?
Because that's how you lose users.
Re:Tracking users' favorite shows? (Score:5, Insightful)
Most people, even those with some inkling of concern with privacy, really don't give a shit if a company knows what shows they like. All it means is they might get ads that might interest them instead of ads that are totally irrelevant.
TV preferences aren't medical records or bank statements or Ashley Madison accounts.
Re: Tracking users' favorite shows? (Score:1)
Then they derive/guess your age, gender, location and income bracket...
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If I have to be subjected to ads, I want them to be irrelevant. I'd rather be bored than tempted to spend money.
Of course, in reality I just avoid ads altogether (including rejecting services that have them, such as cable TV).
Re:Tracking users' favorite shows? (Score:4, Insightful)
Sadly, that's not how you lose users. At all. If anything it is how you gain them.
Play Steam games? XBone? PS4? Every game you play, for how long, etc is tracked.
Have a smart phone? Your travels are tracked. Your contacts are tracked.
Use Facebook? Your friends network is tracked.
Use gmail? What you say to your friends is tracked.
People have demonstrated conclusively over years and years now that they do NOT care about being tracked. All the above things are wildly popular. If this thing failed, it wasn't because of that, it was because it didn't hold up in some other way that people wanted it to.
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Yeah, there are other reasons it's not really the issue though.
I'm going to come out and admit that I like the Wii U, I have all last gen and current gen consoles, and it's one of my favourites. It's not got the power of my PS4 or my X1, and sure it's been screwed on 3rd party game support leaving it few titles.
But it does have some quality titles, at the end of the day Nintendo has still put out more high quality 1st party titles that deserve game ratings in the 90%+ range than Nintendo and Sony have manag
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You forgot a pretty big and important one in your list.
Do you watch more than basic cable already? Then you are already tracked, down to logging every button press on your cable box remote control, including DVR functions like pause/play and normal functions like volume and mute.
If you use Nintendo or Xbox TV (or presumably the new PSN TV once it is launched) most all people are already required to have a service that tracks you before the additional service that also tracks you will even function.
Since ov
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Chickens killed him?
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It's Nintendo. Post your friend code in the comment section below and they'll send you a link in the mail.
Kotaku hates you (Score:2, Informative)
You gamers are dead to them. They said so [kotaku.com].
Well (Score:2)
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TVii who? (Score:1)
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