Japanese TV Networks Afraid Of The Big Bad Wii Video Service [Japan]

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kotaku.com - 1/2/2009

Japanese TV Networks Afraid Of The Big Bad Wii Video Service [Japan]

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As you know, Nintendo are teaming up with Japanese ad agency Dentsu to launch a video service on the Wii next year . Japanese Wii owners are intrigued. Japanese TV networks, however? They're afraid . A senior executive at Fuju Television - the biggest network in Japan - says that if the Wii ...

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Japanese television is afraid, very afraid
That VideoGame Blog — ... the Wii continues to sell like none other the more and more concerned we become that it will eventually take over the world, soon to be subjugating all of humankind of to its fitness programs, kart racing and light-saber wielding bad ass characters (I guess it wouldn’t be all bad…). It looks like we’re not the only ones afraid of the Wii’s power. Television networks in Japan, where the Wii has clearly established its home base for world domination, are shaking in their boots at the idea of the Wii’s upcoming video distribution channel ...

Japanese TV Network frets over upcoming Wii video service
Destructoid — ... as saying "if the Wii was able to become the "centrepiece of the living room", it would be "the stuff of television producers' nightmares". While I feel their pain, I wonder why so much more effort seems to be going into the Wii in Japan while American audiences sit on their cans ( or in the case of Wii Fit, get off them) waiting to see what will happen next. It's not like the Wii has a sales problem here -- why do we get left out? [Via Kotaku]

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