Author Topic: News Channel Live (Read 6077 times)

armedalliance · « **on:** January 25, 2007, 10:17:52 PM »

Just did the update, it's a whole day early lol. Even impressed with the channel icon

Hope it's not some sort of mistake that ends up crashing my Wii ^^
Screen

Edit: Gah! The tip-cat (the cat that shows up in the photo channel) is on the News channel too! I have a feeling we're gonna be seeing that feline quite a bit in the future...

Edit 2: Just got the content downloaded and the interface is very nice. Maybe even nicer than the Forcast Channel? You can select from both National and International news, and the globe is also accessible so you can rotate the globe and see different news in different areas just by selecting the article image over that part of the world. If you zoom out enough there's actually stacks of images on top of certain key areas in the world... for instance, Washington D.C. (USA) at the moment has 114 articles and the stack is reaching pretty high off the globe

Also, different sections are selectable, like sports, arts/entertainment, business, science/health and technology.

There's still a bit more to it but hey, you can check for youself if you've got a Wii! Also won't post pics 'cause they won't come out good with a camera and I'm too lazy to set up my capture card to do some screen-captures, hehe.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2007, 10:45:23 PM »

I sure hope so, the cats are awesome <3
There's not a whole lot of news showing up for Australia at the moment (three stories in total lololol I think the place is a bit more active than that), but it's pretty impressive. Once again Nintendo wins with awesome music in these Channels.

armedalliance · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2007, 10:53:35 PM »

Haha, yeah. I almost feel like I should be playing some sort of cheesy technology-based third person shooter listening to this music

I definately like the style of their channels, although at times I wish the bars on the top/bottom weren't so massive... and slightly plain, but then again I suppose plenty of people have bad eyes so it makes sense and I really shouldn't complain.

Edit: Trying not to hit reply for this random note... hah... reading the "Nintendo's Wii to Provide AP News" article... ON the Wii News Channel

Kairon · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2007, 10:53:50 PM »

Globe + News Tiles that stack to the moon = fun

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
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vudu · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2007, 12:36:09 AM »

The first story I read? An update on the Hold your Wee for a Wii story.

Amazingly enough, the article somehow managed not to mention Nintendo or the Wii once in the entire thing. I'm not sure how that's possible.

Unbiased, indeed.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2007, 12:52:24 AM »

text zoom is cool too. it was like a game just trying to figure out what the words were doing.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #6 on:** January 26, 2007, 01:48:34 AM »

Heh, asking the tip cat turns the load bar into cats and holding A while moving the cursor over that load bar makes random sounds...

News for other countries are trimmed to what you'd read in your newspaper's international stories. It showed zero stories for Washington DC for me and a few celebrity gossip ones for the rest of the US (total about 6-7) while having loads of stories for Europe.

What do the icons next to the news mean?

Strell · « **Reply #7 on:** January 26, 2007, 01:58:07 AM »

Whoa.

Wario's power level must be over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!

Also I will check out the news channel soonz.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 26, 2007, 02:55:42 AM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
The first story I read? An update on the Hold your Wee for a Wii story.

Amazingly enough, the article somehow managed not to mention Nintendo or the Wii once in the entire thing. I'm not sure how that's possible.

Unbiased, indeed.

The funny thing? On the technology section one of the news is about how the PS3 is going to launch in Europe on March...I read that and I was like "...OK, so I am reading about the PS3 on my Wii...".

This was certainly a nice surprise. I woke up this morning and saw the blue light flashing, I checked real quick and there it was!

I haven't explored further, but I like how it is presented.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #9 on:** January 26, 2007, 03:46:59 AM »

The funny thing? On the technology section one of the news is about how the PS3 is going to launch in Europe on March...

The even funnier thing? That story isn't shown to Europeans (or at least me).

NeoThunder · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2007, 03:52:53 AM »

I seen that news story too....Which is funny but I think it's good, it may mean that no news story will be censored by Nintendo hopefully.

JonLeung · « **Reply #11 on:** January 26, 2007, 03:53:11 AM »

I'm at work so I can't check it until I get home but I'm wondering how much local news there is. I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which is not a small city (population approx. 1 million) but it's not exactly a huge metropolis, either. Even regionally, I'm wondering what Alberta or even all of Canada has.

NeoThunder · « **Reply #12 on:** January 26, 2007, 04:07:14 AM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
The first story I read? An update on the Hold your Wee for a Wii story.

Amazingly enough, the article somehow managed not to mention Nintendo or the Wii once in the entire thing. I'm not sure how that's possible.

Actually your wrong!!!!....if you would read the whole article. it states later in the article. "Strange was one of about 18 contestants who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console by seeing how mugh water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The DJs called the contest "Hold your Wee for a Wii.""

So, lets not be faux news here and not report the whole story

NeoThunder · « **Reply #13 on:** January 26, 2007, 04:20:10 AM »

Ummm....don't see any Canadian news, oh wait......there is one, out of Saint John, New Brunswick about an Oil Refinery

chaingunsofdoom · « **Reply #14 on:** January 26, 2007, 04:31:55 AM »

Lots of Canadian news for me when I fired-up the Wii this morning. Too bad most of it was about the psycho sicko in BC. Apparently the map does not know where Ottawa is though... everything from Ottawa news shows as Toronto on the map.

vudu · « **Reply #15 on:** January 26, 2007, 05:55:55 AM »

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Originally posted by: NeoThunder
Actually your wrong!!!!....if you would read the whole article. it states later in the article. "Strange was one of about 18 contestants who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console by seeing how mugh water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The DJs called the contest "Hold your Wee for a Wii.""

So, lets not be faux news here and not report the whole story

That wasn't there when I checked at 7:00 AM this morning. It must have been added later.

IceCold · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2007, 05:57:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
I sure hope so, the cats are awesome <3
There's not a whole lot of news showing up for Australia at the moment (three stories in total lololol I think the place is a bit more active than that), but it's pretty impressive. Once again Nintendo wins with awesome music in these Channels.

So they fixed/replaced your Wii?

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #17 on:** January 26, 2007, 04:37:05 PM »

News Channel = awesome.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #18 on:** January 26, 2007, 06:02:38 PM »

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Originally posted by: IceColdSo they fixed/replaced your Wii?

Nope, not yet.

Oddly enough though, the pointer is super smooth in the News Channel.

NeoThunder · « **Reply #19 on:** January 26, 2007, 06:15:42 PM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
Quote
Originally posted by: NeoThunder
Actually your wrong!!!!....if you would read the whole article. it states later in the article. "Strange was one of about 18 contestants who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console by seeing how mugh water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The DJs called the contest "Hold your Wee for a Wii.""

So, lets not be faux news here and not report the whole story
That wasn't there when I checked at 7:00 AM this morning. It must have been added later.

Ya, you might be right, I think I saw another article that didn't have it, so i take back what I said.

Vundu · « **Reply #20 on:** January 26, 2007, 11:36:59 PM »

I hope they increase the amount of images in the articles, they are a bit sparse so far.

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #21 on:** January 27, 2007, 04:03:13 AM »

Usually the AP only has 1 or 2 images for their stories (at least for the ones that get picked up by other reports). It's not Nintendo's fault.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #22 on:** January 27, 2007, 07:31:34 AM »

Hm, the announcement on NoE's website has a picture showing the news channel (but with a different logo than I get on my Wii) and the channel below it shows the Super Mario World or Super Mario Kart title (only the multicolored Super is visible).

Arbok · « **Reply #23 on:** January 27, 2007, 02:20:22 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
...the channel below it shows the Super Mario World or Super Mario Kart title (only the multicolored Super is visible).

It's from Super Mario World, the Kart logo was metallic on the title screen.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #24 on:** January 27, 2007, 06:11:44 PM »

Yes but SMW has a wooden frame... Perhaps they edited it out to make the screen bigger?

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Author Topic: News Channel Live (Read 6077 times)