Wii Internet Channel Ready For Browsing
It was like having Christmas early this morning when I woke up and saw that blue light flashing on my Wii. What could it be? A new email? Some new Miis to infest my system?
Turns out it was an email from Nintendo informing me that the trial version of Opera was ready for download! I rushed to the wii shopping channel and after going through what seemed like an endless amount of pre-screens, I finally got to the download screen. The download only took a few minutes and I was treated to a little Super Mario 8-bit loop animation while I was waiting.
Once it was done I went and checked out my new present and not surprisingly, went straight to our humble little website to see what it looked like. I was thrilled to see that everything was intact and working properly. I was even able to watch most of the videos with the exception of GameTrailers which didn’t seem to work.
The text was really small until I hit the ”+” button and then I was able to read the articles properly. My only current complaint is that you have to go through two screens just to type a web address in. There’s not a place on the main screen to just type it in. I hope this is something that will be improved when the full version comes out in March 2007.
Other than that I think it’s pretty nifty! It will certainly come in handy when I’m feeling too lazy to walk across the room to my laptop, or when I want to show my boyfriend something on the intertubes without having to pass the laptop back and forth.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some porn to look at…
Fruit Brute
Posted to on 22 December 2006
· Comments (10)
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Name: Dave
We are t3h Wii intertents!!1
Theres no doubt that the Wiibrowser will be much better then the PSP internet browser, but how much do you need that on a console? No real keyboard, no real mouse, you have to use the wiimote for absolutely everything, which gets really tiring if you dont use it just right, and even then… You cant save anything you find online, like you said you cant watch some videos…etc…
I really can never see the point of it. Especially if you have a computer in the same room as the wii, you have a laptop, or you are like me and you have an LCD screen with your wii and other video game systems, and your own computer, hooked up to it.
Opera doesn’t like flash videos very much… it crashed a couple times this morning, and I had to pull the plug to restart the Wii (reset didn’t work). Otherwise, it’s pretty nice : i’m typing this with my wiimote… Hope Dudetube works well,... hum, gonna check now.
Not too bad. No quicktime. Scrolling is strange. Why not use the d-pad? Great thing is that all the ads fit perfectly off the side of the screen. :-)
Fun! I’m hoping they fix the above-mentioned issues before final launch, but it looks pretty great and I was impressed how well things loaded.
it’s fast and supports most flash-videos – a good start, might even spend these 500 points in the full version later – am positively surprised after playing around with opera for the ds…
i`m amazed at how well the flash games and videos play on here. to me, this almost feels as if the wiimote was made for web browsing!
sure it has a few problems here and there, but that’s to be expected on day one of the wiinet. if the trial version of this browser is this ORGASMIC, imagine what the final version will bring!
this post brought to you by the wii and wiimote :D
I prefer computer browsers over the Wii’s for going to message boards and stuff, but I think it’s kind of nice to use the Wiimote to play the games on Wiicade.com.
Very enjoyable, except for writing email and message board posts. And those are a lot more tolerable on the Wii than on, say, my cell phone.
I found a way to crash the browser which produces “interesting” results.
Try moving the favourites around using A+B like you can with the wii channels in the main menu, keep trying and eventually itll lock up the system and leave the wiimote constantly vibrating untill you turn the console off.
now go forth fellow citizens of the internet and use this knowledge wisely…