Why should the Xbox 360 have all the fun with Netflix? Now the Wii isgetting its ownentertainment channel, with thetotallynot gay name ofEverybody’s Wii Theater! Yaaaay! It’s for everybody!
Due to launch in Japan from January 27 (so not quote foreverybody), this online video rental service will contain around 3,000 titles, includingAstro Boy,Transformers,Hajime no Ippo, andDogtanian. It’s mostly anime, with a few movies, educational programs, and drama shows thrown in. The rental options are as follows:
The main question of course is: How is Nintendo expecting to deliver the content? With the Wii’s tiny hard drive, it’s not like it can store much of anything. Are people meant to pay tostreamit? On the Wii? Well, it’s unlikely to matter to us anyway. I doubt “everybody” will get a chance to experience Everybody’s Wii Theater, as there’s no talk of it ever coming across to the West.
Probably a good thing too, since the promise of paid film content that’s being hyped as “close” to DVD quality would quite rightly get laughed at by most people who know better.
