Nintendo Working On Bringing Everybody's Nintendo Channel To North America

[DrRockso]

ya my wii shop channel is "currently undergoing maintenance"

 

[madbeanman]

news from GDC. Nintendo networking manager man says they are working on bringing the feature to NA and Europe in the coming months.

The Europe bit was important there.

 

[Sparx]

Whats WiiWare and whats Everybody's Nintendo?

What are you people talking about?

 

[LevesqueIsKing]

^WiiWare is a service that will allow private companies to sell their own short games on the Wii's Shop Channel for Wii Points.

The Everybody's Nintendo channel allows people to view videos of Nintendo games, rate games they've played, and even download short games onto their Nintendo DS.

 

[Sparx]

Awesome! Thats cool man.

 

[IndianDan]

Is there a month for this yet? could we see this before wiiware too.

 

[Sparx]

Yeah when is it coming? How soon?

 

[madbeanman]

A rumour on Kotaku said the channel would be released in a month or so.
That rumour was posted on Febuary 7th {I think} and its now March 8th. Take from that what you will.

 

[Sparx]

Ty. So Everybody's Nintendo is just something that gives you previews and video of games?

 

[LevesqueIsKing]

It also contains downloadable games for the Nintendo DS.

 

[Sparx]

Wow thats great. Let's say that you download Mario Kart DS, would you be able to play it Wi-Fi like you do on the DS?

 

[LevesqueIsKing]

You can't download any game you want, but only a select few.

Most of the games are rather short, but some are worthwhile.

 

[Sparx]

Any examples?

 

[madbeanman]

Its free ds demos not full games.

 

[Sparx]

Oh. Dam, I wanted to buy DS games.