Changes to the Mii Channel and a Fresh Wii Channel Announced March 12, 2007
It’s been reported that at the Game Developers Conference Shigeru Miyamoto very quickly announced that a new Wii channel will launch April 23rd. Unfortunately that date is only relevant to Japan and no other details were given on a North American release date or specific details on the channel.
At the conference Mr. Miyamoto also touched on the evolution of the Mii channel and the Wii hoping that someday Wii owners will be able to do much more than just send messages to each other and that perhaps the Wii will become the next big social networking tool competing with the likes of My Space and of course Sony’s new Home feature that is to be released soon on the PS3.
Does this mean that we can expect to see much more customizable Miis in the near future? It will be interesting to see Nintendo balance adding more Mii features while keeping the process of making Miis easy and fun, which has probably helped make them so appealing and fun to so many people.
Its possible these announcements are in response to the development of the Home feature soon to be launched by Sony (which was probably developed in response to the Mii channel to begin with). In fact, the new Wii channel announced might be directly focused on competing with the new Sony Home feature (or possibly the video chat channel mentioned in the last post). Watching all these new features unravel will be exciting.
Will Sony make the Home feature over detailed and therefore overly difficult to the point that it only catches on with a dedicated group of gamers? Will Nintendo over complicate the Mii channel taking its appeal away from its new non-traditional gamer base? I don’t know but I can’t wait to find out.
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