Wii System Update – V2.1E

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Nick. Posted in Uncategorized.

Wii has a new software update… and what it brings new is a new release in the Shopping Channel.

The new, free, Channel is called "Everybody Votes Channel" and it is a nice idea… cunningly Nintendo will now be able to find exactly what  their customers like…

It is a fun, interactive, voting system which allows the users to vote for their preferred "choices" (as in cat or dog?) and see what the others think… For example one of the questions is "How do you like your eggs? Fried or Boiled?". You now have to drop your Mii on you choice and submit your choice… A nice touch is the fact that you can also say whether you think that the rest of the people think the same way like you or whether you are a "fronder" and you are against the wave OH NO you might be against the mainstream…

It is fun that you actually get to see what opinion the people in your region have… This will be a great statistic tool….

Do you think that people will not participate? I think they will because it is fun, because you use your Mii, because you can make your word heard and because you can "compete" against your friends….

One of the things that I find very interesting is that Nintendo has release another internet enabled channel but this one is just as slow as the previous ones… submitting your choice takes a considerable amount of time on a broadband connection which makes me think that "connected" games are not available yet also because Nintendo might not be ready to handle such connections…

That's it for now!

Cheers…

p.s. the shopping channel has been improved too in this release… and one more thing: Nintendo will push the results of the votes back to you… Nice…

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