It’s all very fun at first, but really it’s all very vanilla as well. A channel that gets only a few downloads is no longer a “failure” as we understand that word today.Īt present, everyone has access to the same Channels. Because it’s all digital, there’s no harm, no foul in that at all. Tomorrow, you will start to see the channels that theoretically only a handful of people will actually download.

Today, you’re seeing the “hits” - those channels that a majority of people will love. As it will be the case with independent developer games on the inevitable Wii Games Channel, it will cost next to nothing for Nintendo to push niche Channels to users’ consoles. But for you peeps dismissing the niche channels, hold the phone and. To some, these may sound like great ideas. Examples include the Wii Stock Channel, Sports Channel and a Movie Times Channel, to name a few. The reason I ramble today is that IGN Wii has some slick mock-ups on their site today of pipe dream future Wii channels. Everyone talks about the potential of Wii Channels - what could come to be, what’s already here how wild ideas will probably never see the light of day but sound really, really cool ( Wii Cricket Channel, anyone?).

Useless wii channels