Nintendo starting Streaming Video Service on Wii in 2009
Video streaming is coming to the Wii in 2009 for both Japan and later Western territories.
In Japan Nintendo has partnered with Japanese company Dentsu to provide original stream video programming which will include some free but ad-supported videos and some pay-to-watch videos.
Among statements from both companies is this line:
“Nintendo and Dentsu shall use the environment surrounding the Wii so that living rooms with Wii-ready TVs would become more of a fun area for communication among families and friends.”
Video streaming is something that analysts have been discussing for a while as they believe it is important for Nintendo to pursue so that the Wii can better compete against the video-steaming services that are standard on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.
The deal with Dentsu is considered a bigger deal than one that they will be bringing to WiiWare on January 27th with Japanese firm Fujisoft called “Everyone’s Theater for Wii (Minna-no Theater Wii in Japanese). That service is pay-per-view and “enables people to enjoy video content any time at home by video streaming playback on Wii”, at a cost of 100 to 400 Wii Points per video (between one and fourteen dollars U.S.)
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