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Wii will soon offer streaming video in Japan

by Danielle Riendeau on Dec 27, 2008 at 08:03 AM

Nintendo Wii
Nintendo has finally decided to join the “now generation” and offer a little bit more in terms of multimedia - at least in Japan. According to a recent item at Gamasutra, the company just signed a deal with advertising firm Dentsu and “will include some ad-supported but free videos, and some pay-to-watch videos”

The post contains the official announcement of the partnership:

“Nintendo and Dentsu shall use the environment surrounding the Wii so that living rooms with Wii-ready TVs would become more of a fun area for communication among families and friends.”

The for-pay videos will reportedly cost 100 to 400 Wii points (that’s $1-4), and they sound like a test run for Western markets. What do you think - will this work out as well as everything else Nintendo does these days? Or are people getting their video content in enough places these days?

Read [Gamasutra]

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