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Wii Opera Browser is Free Until Next Year
Wowzer writes "Nintendo is serious about giving casual game console users multi-functionality by offering not just a weather, news, and photo channels, but a free internet browser with the Wii at the November 19th U.S. launch. From the article: 'Opera's full Web browser is available for download from the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo has stated that they will offer Opera free of charge as a temporary promotion for all [worldwide] Wii users until June 2007.'"
Wouldn't this be a 'Wiib Browser'?
Did Mario write the headline?
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not an opera that works on the wii.
the original plan was to charge for it (the opera for the DS will cost money)
...someone will have hacked up a free version to use in place of the pay one...
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
Always been free? Its been free for a year, maybe 2. It was a for pay product for many many years.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Nintendo is temporarily offering me a free copy of a program that has always been free before. What a bargain!!
Opera has not "always been free". Prior to Version 5, it was pay software only. From 2000 to 2005, a "free" version was available, but was ad-sponsored. It's only been in the past year or so that a free-and-clear version of the browser has been available on the desktop.
The headline is a bad grammar.
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If someone's already bought it for their PC, they can just let Opera and Nintendo know and they'll get a copy sent straight to their Wii, right? I mean, surely a respectable company with IP will have no problem making you absolutely happy with your purchase once you've paid them money, right?
For me it's not a matter of resolution, but seating comfort. My sofa trumps my desk chair.
Linux: Free if your time is worthless.
And they STILL charge for 'embedded' web browsers. (Ones for cell phones, etc.) Although some cell phone companies pay for it to be included.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
Opera for PC is free. Opera for embedded systems like your phone, PDA, or Wii costs money, but usually that cost is hidden in the price of the product.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Can you recommend an affordable set-top PC?
FF for Wii is planned.
The problem with a blanket endorsement of homebrew methods is that commercial developers will likely try to pass their games off as homebrew without giving Nintendo a cut. This would kill the attach rate.
http://wii.nintendo.com/iwata_asks_vol3_p2.html
"Iwata:
It's even conceivable that we'll take titles that have been popular on the Shopping Channel and further polish them up to be sold as a packaged software with the MSRP accepted in the existing distribution channels. Talking of potential, we may even be able to create an opportunity for amateur developers where they can release games that they have made, although this will be hard to do in the immediate future. The mechanics of the games industry at the moment doesn't allow games to be sold unless they're widely advertised by major publishers to earn greater profit. This seals off gateways into the game industry for new talents."
It's fun to be smug but only when you know what you're talking about.
Got it Eric?
Nah, it's always fun to be smug, dude.
In canada you can pre order a Wii at Toys R Us.
Got the bundel deal (one wii two controlers and 2 games) under 300 and all for a refundable 50$ cdn
Also put in a pre order for zelda!
Now all I have to do is waite for Nov!
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>I have to wonder why they didn't just port Firefox themselves. It would be much easier
no it wouldn't. Opera have shedloads of experience making browers for low-spec devices with restricted interfaces. Firefox has none at all. Nintendo might as well have started entirely from scratch.
Because... it's a different program for a different architecture that runs on a different kind of device in a different market?
The PC and console versions of the same game are generally separate purchases, and not necessarily the same price. Here one of the prices is $0. That doesn't necessarily mean the other price will be $0 as well.
On the plus side, it's nice to see someone making the opposite of the classic mistake, taking current information and assuming it was true in the past, rather than taking outdated information and assuming it still applies to the present.
But the region setting on it will probably be US or Japan which means that you can't buy any games for the Wii in Europe...
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So Nintendo is going to bundle The Best Tool Humanity Has Ever made To Access Porn on a family games console, for free? Pretty big risk there, dudes. One day mom comes home and finds out the older kids have set the page to scat pron to gross the children out. Unlesss they lock it down, this will be a PR disaster in the US the first time a wailing mom is on the news saying how she trusted Nintendo to create a kid-safe experience, and then it wasn't.
Funny. Why didn't they announce that on Slashdot, and then again the next day?
If something I said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, I meant the other one.
Has anyone thought to consider that things like this keep Opera in business? And ultimately keeps Microsoft and Mozilla competitive?
And How would someone browse the internet with the Wii? Sounds like Nintendo plans to release a Wii Keyboard. If not, they screw themselves over with potential additional profit.
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A true geek would move the sofa. ;)
Great Intellect...
Nåhja, men hvis jeg alligevel er i færd med at bestille maskine kan jeg lige så godt bestille spil.
I think so too, but I find scratching just makes it worse.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
Opera's low-spec experience means they make efficient browsers, not PC-bloatware that use lots of resources just because they can. always a bonus for non-upgradable platforms.
no keyboard = restricted interface.
No, I true geek would not be able to move the sofa. ;-)
The price is $2000 if I remember correctly, cheaper then Sonys official devkit, but still a though price considering that you can get inofficial homebrew and development up and running on Gamecube, NintendoDS and GBA for around $100. Beside, you can't just buy the devkits, you have to be an experienced game developer or have to have a large publisher to back you up to even make it past the entrance door, you can't just go to WarioWorld throw the devkit in your shopping cart and enter a credit card number to get one.
Well, the last time I heard of a company releasing a software product free for one year was from a very large well known company and a certain popular software development product. They seemed to have changed their minds within a couple months.
Sorry, but the abbreviation for Firefox is "Fx" according to the Firefox developers; thanks for playing.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
Theoretical browsing is the best kind.
A true geek's sofa would be irretrievably stuck halfway up the stairs.
Never mind Spamassassin. When's Spammerassassin coming out?