Kotaku: With Nintendo TVii, the Kyoto-based game maker is bringing streaming video to the GamePad. Starting on December 8 in Japan, gamers can watch the pictures as they fly through the air via the comfort of the Wii U GamePad. But if you want easy channel changing, you must barf up extra cash.
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Nintendo this should just be free!
Stupid Trolls.
"The Wii U GamePad can be used as a television remote control, but if you want to use that same function for Nintendo TVii, Nintendo is charging a ¥100 ($1.22) flat fee."
show the functionality, then pay for it.
if you spent 300+ on a wii u, you shouldnt complain about 1.22 for an app.
unless this was promised to be a free faeture.
I hate those hidden faeture!??
j/k
That is all I need if for!
Nippon Television is government owned and if you have a device that receives a TV transmission, you are legally obligated to purchase NHK1, NHK2, and NHK-E channels.
They're respectively like CBS, NBC, and PBS, but you are forced to pay for them.
This ￥100 flat fee (NOT PER CHANNEL) must circumvent the necessity for people to draw up a new contract for their Nintendo TVii.
Anyway, at least it's a flat rate.
I wonder if $on¥ will do something similar?
@ Pillsbury1
I'm not under a spell.
Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony fanboys are.
It was the Green Ranger. Not the Red
Okay, I admit it, I lol'd.
Kotaku..sheesh!
educate yourself and others before you post such nonsense. Medicinal marijuana has changed and saved many lives.
on topic: youre right though, the article and the headline are at odds with each other. strange choice by kotaku
if you actively choose to be ignorant, youre already hopeless. and if you dont have a heart, your already hopeless.
Epic fail on Kotaku's part.
"goes and reads the article"
"see's that it is kotaku"
well that explains a lot
This could easily have been free though, but it's such a small sum it's really no biggie.
Also, you'd be surprised at some of the ridiculous shit Japanese have to pay for.
By the way, what's your favorite Xenosaga game?
see kotaku.com+
click on it.
select "WTF?!" for story quality
select "No" for "Do you like this website"
That is all.
but any thing they can say to put it in a bad light.even if they leave stuff out.
and my four friends and me who have wii u love it.and everyone who I talk to through the miiverse loves it. the only people who hate it are people who don't own it and maybe played a in store demo.
It's less expensive than the DLC for New Super Mario Bros. I mean come on (to everyone who's complaining about the one time fee).
The function is useless unless you have a crappy cable provider.
I mean, Comcast is absolutely terrible, but DirecTV is just...
Bad journalism extends beyond Doritos photos.
I mean is this the first time people have used these console extra functions that are non gaming related or something?
some Applications cost money, its not a requirement but you cannot sit there and say, that should be free when you may not know the full reason its not free.companies have to pay licence fee's some things An it may not be free Because of it. The fact it is an option instead of not a requirement is a good thing. That beats a hidden fee anytime.
the article was obviously (also) translated from the Japanese text using (probably) Google Translate or something similar, coz it has "...gamers can watch the pictures as they fly through the air...". if Wii U does that, that would truly be next-gen. pictures flying through the air.
anyway, it has already been mentioned that in the US, TVii is free. of course, this does not mean you don't pay for the services you get when using Netflix, Hulu, etc.
What about the one who wrote the article?
I know we can blame people for not reading but this would happen a lot less if authors such as the ones from Kotaku tried a bit less at troll-baiting with their headlines.
/s