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Everybody Votes on the Wii

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-like-democracy-only-more-efficient dept.

Wired's Game|Life blog has up a post pointing out a surprise from Nintendo: a cute voting application now available on your Nintendo Wii. Unannounced and easy to understand, Everybody Votes appears to be attempting to gain a gestalt view of the Wii-owning population. The app gives you several multiple choice questions to answer, and allows you to submit your own. Chris Kohler hopes that this might be the beginning of downloads for small, entertaining programs Nintendo fans may have never otherwise seen. "If you've ever been to an E3 or read about Nintendo's booth, you know that they often show little demos or applications that never get released. Well, with Wii, it seems that we might actually start seeing those little experiments thrown out to the public. Since Nintendo as a game developer uses this first-prototype-something-fun style of design, we could see all kinds of things that ordinarily wouldn't ever make it out of Nintendo headquarters." I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

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  1. Missing option! by monkeySauce · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if all the polls will have only two possible responses? Slashdotters complain when they are fewer than... well, infinity.

    It would be cool if they accepted user poll ideas. Here is my Everybody Votes poll submission: What is your favorite gaming console: Playstation 3 or Xbox 360?

  2. Diebold replacements by Yoozer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheaper, less prone to corruption, and cuter, too.

    1. Re:Diebold replacements by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      More secure and accurate as well, so it'll never happen.

      KFG

  3. Re:Sounds good, a quasi Wikipedia like development by Eivind · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah ! Completely Stunning !

    Imagine, using a online computer to conduct *polls* with *multiple-choices*. It a mind-boggling idea !

    And you can send "suggestions" too, don't figure that's ever been possible before !

  4. Re:Sounds good, a quasi Wikipedia like development by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, someone's going to ruin this great new technology by answering every question with "CowboyMario"

  5. Re:Sounds good, a quasi Wikipedia like development by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm currently 290 meters away from popular opinion. What the heck does that mean?

    You get modded up on Slashdot?

    --
    Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
  6. Obviously... by Tetrad_of_doom · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm currently 290 meters away from popular opinion. What the heck does that mean?
    It means you shouldn't be allowed within 290 meters of anybody normal. Posting on /. is still safe though.