The idea of the Wii dominating all my media needs is a little humorous to me at this point in time, but apparently Japanese TV Networks are seeing that as a possible threat to what they offer audiences. They were already feeling the crunch way back when as the Wii took people away from watching shows and busy waving their arms about willy-nilly, but with the Wii video service on the horizon, it may mean even more people forgetting to tune in.
A senior exec at Japan's biggest television station, Fuju Television, was quoted as saying "if the Wii was able to become the "centrepiece of the living room", it would be "the stuff of television producers' nightmares".
While I feel their pain, I wonder why so much more effort seems to be going into the Wii in Japan while American audiences sit on their cans ( or in the case of Wii Fit, get off them) waiting to see what will happen next. It's not like the Wii has a sales problem here -- why do we get left out?
[Via Kotaku]
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3:30 PM on 01.02.2009
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Isn't that why they make component cables?
I'd imagine if Nintendo where securing proper sponsors and companies they'd have to have the whole thing run alot tighter.
House only comes on once a week, and so does 24 once it starts back up again.
Other than that, nothing. Not even Chowder and Flapjack make me that happy, mostly because I can't DVR the episodes anymore.
And now Adult Swim is putting on that shit King Of The Hill? Damnit...
for the same reason Japanese 360 owners get left out every time new tv, movie, game DLC content comes out in the States...
What a fucking joke.
Best way is not to bitch about the competition, but get in on the Wii action before other studios do. Not really rocket science.
Wii is the stuff of television producers' nightmares? Is that exec on drugs or something?
Japan has many Free internet access places in the more densely populated area.
Lets not forget that the Wii cannot be hardwired to stream videos. so what they're doing basically is having you wait while it buffers for a half hour to watch ten minutes of video.
Give us some storage devices Nintendo. Not lame TV crap.
And wheres our HD Wii? Where's our price drop? GAH! F U Miyamoto!