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Is the WiiU going to have downloadable channels like the Wii did?


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#1 Indyrams

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Posted 23 April 2013 - 03:14 PM

Like the Check Mii Out and Everybody Votes Channel?

 

I haven't been on here much, or heard any news so I was just wondering.

 

I know with the WiiU's power they could come up with some ideas for some amazing channels.



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Posted 23 April 2013 - 03:38 PM

It essentially does that on Wii U, although most of them seem to be game software. Not nearly as much utility type software like the Wii.

 

You should be able to transfer channels to the Wii U from an SD Card I think, but some services on the Wii like the default channels will lose their connection soon.


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Posted 23 April 2013 - 03:56 PM

Like the Check Mii Out and Everybody Votes Channel?

 

I haven't been on here much, or heard any news so I was just wondering.

 

I know with the WiiU's power they could come up with some ideas for some amazing channels.

Those channels were useless. I say make decent ones like Last.FM or something like that.


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Posted 23 April 2013 - 04:29 PM

Yeah......

 

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Posted 23 April 2013 - 04:31 PM

I liked the weather one never used the others really. Well used the Mii one when it was new 2007-2010 


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Posted 23 April 2013 - 04:39 PM

I liked the weather one never used the others really. Well used the Mii one when it was new 2007-2010 

I always found it very innacurate.


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Posted 23 April 2013 - 04:41 PM

I always found it very innacurate.

Really? For me it tend to be ok. Where were you? Was it some major city? I know for me I lived in a big city (Two of the top two in the area so maybe that was why) 


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Posted 23 April 2013 - 04:42 PM

Really? For me it tend to be ok. Where were you? Was it some major city? I know for me I lived in a big city (Two of the top two in the area so maybe that was why) 

I live in the middle of Kansas in a town of 45K


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Posted 23 April 2013 - 06:01 PM

I live in the middle of Kansas in a town of 45K

Oh I live in Boston.. however tbh I noticed pretty much any online weather station is kinda wrong even the major online ones a lot for some reason lately 


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Posted 24 April 2013 - 02:47 AM

I'd love for them to come out with apps, like maybe a Facebook or Twitter. Yes, I realize you can do this on the browser..



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Posted 24 April 2013 - 02:52 AM

I'd like some downloadable apps, facebook on the web browser sucks, so maybe a FB app



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Posted 24 April 2013 - 02:54 AM

Before we go into all this chennel stuff, shouldn't they be focusing on the important things. I mean, they still haven't released the update that gives sandwich making compatabilities! I have been waiting for that since the start, the PS4 is going to have full sandwich, AND sub making compatabilities, the 720 is rumored to have a built in always on toaster for heating up your sandwiches! If the Wii U hopes to compete against these clearly superior systems, IT NEEDS that sandwich making compatabilities update!!! Then once wii have that, then Ninty can go all out on their channels, so long as their is a share your awesome sandwich channel.

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Posted 24 April 2013 - 07:49 AM

The channels on the Wii were for the most part useless and a waste of resources. If they come up with some decent useful ones then OK. That said they should be focusing on more important things to increase the sales of the hardware.

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Posted 25 April 2013 - 10:56 AM

If they were going to add weather to the Wii U I think it would be more part of the OS itself than a channel. 

 

It was always a bit of a hack on the Wii as it HAD to run Connect24 to pull in the data during sleep mode as the console itself didn't multitask so it couldn't be done in the background while the console was powered up.  The Wii U however would be perfectly capable of pulling in the latest data while in-game, and that would be most efficient if written into the main OS itself rather than having lots of sub processes pulling in data independently.

 

You just have to look at Android to see how it sucks having all these separate background processes running all the time pulling in data independent of each other.  It takes up a lot more RAM and CPU power than it would if they could all be merged into a single task.


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Posted 25 April 2013 - 04:09 PM

No, I hope nintendo stray away from all the gimick like channels that made the Wii so child like. 


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