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Nintendo TVii Service Will Go Dark August 11th

Posted by timothy on from the will-also-stay-dark-for-the-days-to-follow dept.

Kotaku reports that Nintendo has announced it will shutter its Wii U TVii in just a few weeks; after August 11th, the service will be no more. The description that Kotaku offers gives some idea of why: Nintendo TVii promised to turn television watching into a robust social experience, tracking users' favorite shows, making suggestions based on familial preferences, integrating with all of the major streaming video services, programming DVR recordings and acting as a second screen experience on the Wii U game pad. It sounded pretty amazing. It wasn’t really. It was awkward and fumbling and a year later the Xbox One came along with its HDMI pass-through and voice-controlled TV watching and made Nintendo TVii look silly."

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  1. Kotaku hates you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You gamers are dead to them. They said so.