The service will focus on family-orientated content as another pillar of Nintendo’s drive to encourage interaction between family members around its console. The majority of the 34.6 million Wii consoles sold — around 80 percent according to company figures — are hooked-up to living room TVs. However, only 40 percent are connected to the Internet.
Few other details were offered about the channel and its content although a single screenshot provided by Nintendo shows four family members depicted by their “Mii” avatars sitting around a living room table drinking tea while a TV set in the background shows Wii Fit.
Programming on the service will consist of entirely new shows including cartoons, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday. The newspaper pegged an overseas launch for later in 2009.
- Official website of Nintendo Wii: http://www.nintendo.com/wii
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