CNN sign up with Nintendo for Wii news channel

Wii News | More Wii channels to be added and DVD playback to be put back in?

According to Neogaf, the latest issue of EDGE magazine has a few interesting Wii tidbits, which are sure to get mouths talking. First off, CNN has signed up with Nintendo as the provider of the news content on the news Wii channel in America & Japan. Apparantly news will be presented by category, but you'll also be able to spin the weather globe to find stories for different countries.

Sega have also moved a "significant number of development staff" from the PlayStation 3 to the Wii. The magazine also states that although Nintendo have removed DVD movie playback from the Wii, the company is planning to launch in Japan next year an enhanced Wii which is capable of playing DVDs; so much for those households who already have DVD players hey?

The magazine also confirms that there are still plenty of Wii channel slots remaining to be filled, so we could see the Wii channel expand quite quickly if it takes off. More as it comes.

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14 Comments

ret the roman

5 years ago

Why not CNNNN

Qbert

5 years ago

^haha I'd get an extra Wii and leave it perminently on CNNNN 24/7 if there were such a channel!

This is good news though, the news and weather channels are interesting to me, as I often spend quite a lot of time just on google news. To be able to go between countries on a virtual globe and read country-specific news on a home console would be exciting and ideal for me.

wwe_westy

5 years ago

The article says that CNN would be providing news for America & Japan, but there is know mention of Australias news. (Maybe Australia will get CNNNN

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838 La

5 years ago

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the company is planning to launch in Japan next year an enhanced Wii which is capable of playing DVDs

If they ever pull out a Panasonic Wii, I'm gonna go break one of mine game cube discs.

admeister

5 years ago

We'll see what happens. DVD playback isn't exaclty exciting, but expansion of the Wii channels has promise. CNN are a great news service, so this is good news.

Jellyfish

5 years ago

838 La wrote

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the company is planning to launch in Japan next year an enhanced Wii which is capable of playing DVDs

If they ever pull out a Panasonic Wii, I'm gonna go break one of mine game cube discs.

Hopefully it'll have HD mode too

That'll be a definite purchase.

DancesInUnderwear

5 years ago

I would love to see this Wii channels thing get expanded on. A Wii kids channel? A Wii music channel? A Wii comedy channel? I'd hit it.

Cerebral

5 years ago

admeister wrote

We'll see what happens. DVD playback isn't exaclty exciting

It's convenient and would save me having to unplug the Wii and plug in the 360.

admeister

5 years ago

DancesInUnderwear wrote

I would love to see this Wii channels thing get expanded on. A Wii kids channel? A Wii music channel? A Wii comedy channel? I'd hit it.

For sure, that would be excellent!

It has great possiblities.

Ellegarden

5 years ago

admeister wrote

We'll see what happens. DVD playback isn't exaclty exciting, but expansion of the Wii channels has promise. CNN are a great news service, so this is good news.

Umm..sure.

wwe_westy

5 years ago

DancesInUnderwear wrote

I would love to see this Wii channels thing get expanded on. A Wii kids channel? A Wii music channel? A Wii comedy channel? I'd hit it.

They've got to make a Wii channel for non stop pong. Doesn't speed up, and the two players never beat each other. Just goes on forever. Also, they need a channel for non-stop fish cam. That would be sweet

sonicwired

5 years ago

Hopefully the BBC will do something useful with the £130 I have to pay every year (the crooks!) and become the news service for the UK Wii.

Jim Dash

5 years ago

OK, a news channel, good, but expansion of channels to music, etc will not happen, imo.

I don't actually have a valid reason - I just don't think it will happen. The Wii is not a cable service.

dc0079

5 years ago

Sounds like another Panasonic Q.

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