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The Japanese pioneer of video games, Nintendo announced that it will launch a service for disseminating popular videos exclusively for the Wii console, which can be connected to television and internet from one side to another.

About 80% of the Wii are installed in the family room and connected to the main television, Nintendo stressed, to justify the appropriateness of use Wii as a vector of visual content than just games.



The new offer, which consists of programs specifically produced for Nintendo, will be available from next spring in Japan. Will build on the platform in the Internet Wii, in which there are video games that are downloaded, channels of information and virtual stores.

The same service will be offered abroad, but later as from a date yet determined. Nintendo has sold nearly 40 million Wii in the world (more than seven million in Japan) from the marketing of this console at the end of 2006, which makes this machine one of the biggest commercial success of video games.