Cool Things About The Wii

Because I am getting a Nintendo Wii for Christmas, or sometime after Christmas, I decided I would make a place for me and my readers (I have readers, right?), to see all of the coolest things available or soon to be availble for the Wii.

Wiimote
Another very cool thing about the Wii is the Wiimote, which is fun for games like Wii Sports, but also has many other uses. People are developing drivers for both Mac and PC so the Wiimote will be able to control their computers, offering a lot of fun in both First Person Shooter games, and things such as Google Earth.

Wii Sports
Wii Sports, which is bundled with every console, allows you to play many fun sports games, including Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Bowling, and Boxing. For people who don’t usually play video games, and think that video games should have been played like this from the start, this allows them to jump into the action with arcade style fun.

Virtual Console
With the Virtual Console, you will be able to play all your old Nintendo classics, such as the original Donkey Kong. NES games are being sold for 500 Wii Points, while SNES games are being sold for 800 Wii Points, Nintendo 64 games for 1,000 Wii Points, Sega Genesis games for 800 Wii Points, and TurboGrafx16 games for 600 Wii Points. To obtain Wii Points, you can buy them online or at retail or around 2,000 points for $20, which you can spend on Virtual Console games and other things. To play some Virtual Console games, a Classic Controller may needed, which is sold separately.

Opera Internet Channel
The Nintendo Wii comes with free internet access, so when Opera decided to develop an web browser for the Wii, it really caught on. Just recently, it was released in trial form, where it will be free until June, when the final version will be able to be downloaded in March for 500 points from the Wii shop channel, which is the same price as old NES games from the Virtual Console.

Wii Forecast Channel
Nintendo just released the Wii Forecast Channel, where you can find real-time weather around the world, without even leaving your couch. From the videos I have seen if this being utilized, it looks very natural to control the globe with the Wiimote, so I’m looking forward to this.

Mii Channel
The Mii Channel allows you create Miis, which are three-dimensional portraits of your friends and family, that are very easy to create. Once you make a Mii, you can watch it come to like in some Wii games. So your Mii can always be with you, you can save your Mii on your Wiimote, and bring it to a friend’s house.

I’m sure there is some other stuff, so if I left anything out, you can hit me up in the comments.