When the Wii first launched, there was a brief window of opportunity in which customers could download the Internet Channel for free and browse the net via the gift of motion control. However, despite being a rather inconvenient, slow and altogether rubbish feature, Nintendo started charging 500 Wii Points for it. Anybody stupid enough to buy it must be kicking themselves now, because it's free again.
If you are among the retards who paid good money for it, however, do not worry. Nintendo hasn't forgotten its gullible audience and will be rewarding anybody who bought the Internet Channel with a free NES game from the Virtual Console. There's no word on what the game will be, but it will launch in late October. I hope it's something really awful, like Bart vs. The Space Mutants.
This feature should always have been free, really, since it couldn't hope to replace a real Internet browser and exists as a mere curiorisity and a poor man's method of watching Youtube videos on the TV.
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10:00 AM on 09.01.2009
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They did.
Who am I kidding. I'll have Super Mario Bros twice over
Kind of dissapointing but oh well.
You sure? Ever since the turn of 2007, almost every site I went to that used flashed said that the Adobe Flash needed to be updated, many sites worth visiting on your TV basically failed to function.
Of course fanboyism prefers ridiculous "all or nothing" statements, so go ahead and keep talking shit guys.
They did updated it, that's the whole point of them making it free now. I can't believe people are complaining about free things. What do you want, for them to pay you? Supposedly everyone who spent the 500 points, are getting them back now. But that's just what I heard on the IGN messageboards, from people in Europe, who already got the update. So I'd imagine that it will be the same for people here in North America.
I bet people will find some way to complain about that as well though. (Damn you Nintendo, for giving us our points back. Now I have to get up and dust off my WiiMote to use it. I hate you Nintendo.) I'm sure Jim could find a way to make it another negative story, seeing as how he's really good at doing that when it comes to anything Nintendo!
Jim would surely know that the browser had been updated, you know, if he actually knew anything about the Wii past 2007, instead of pulling random insults from his considerable backside.
I think that's what gets Nintendo fans pissed off the most about Jim. He acts like he knows everything about the system, from when he owned one back in 2007. As if the Wii can never be updated like the PS3, or 360. Which it obviously can, as Nintendo proved with the 4.0 update earlier this year, by solving the storage issue. I'm surprised Jim's still not harping on about that, how his 2007 Wii still needs a storage solution!
And Bart vs. The Space Mutants? Got it as a gift from my parents when I was little. At least it wasn't Deadly Towers.
Oh wait. They bought that one for me, too. Sad.
And if you're truly amazing, use GlovePie to use the WiiMote on your PC too.
Also, I rather enjoyed the first level of Bart vs The Space Mutants. The rest of the game was rubbish, but the first level used the license in some really clever ways (even if it did control poorly). Shame that the game went downhill rapidly from there.
Check here for details:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/faq/
You guys say it's an updated version? I'll download it!
s good for porn purposes