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Opera Partners with Nintendo to Put Browser on the Wii

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th May 2006 17:21 UTC

Nintendo has turned to Opera as the browser for their upcoming Wii gaming console. "Opera Software today announced that Nintendo's much anticipated new generation game console, Wii, will use the Opera browser. Users of the Wii console will browse the Internet using their consoles. Navigating via the innovative new Wii Remote controller, users can visit Web sites in between gaming sessions."

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Preemptive

by Johan on Wed 10th May 2006 17:47 UTC

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2005-06-30

Screenshots here!

http://wiinintendo.net/?p=110

It looks fantastic, with excellent use of the two screens. Eg, One full page screen to control the other zoomed in screen. It also has handwriting recognition.

As someone said before, the ironic thing is that the Wii broswer will probably be more standard compliant than IE in Vista :-)

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RE: Preemptive

by Kroc on Wed 10th May 2006 17:59 in reply to "Preemptive"

Member since:
2005-11-10

The article is about the Wii, not the DS! Either way this is good news.

And lets please not get into _ANY_ Opera vs Firefox wars please. I don't care which is your favourite browser or who invented what, as long as it's not IE and that you're happy with your choice.

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RE: Preemptive

by Johan on Wed 10th May 2006 18:20 in reply to "Preemptive"

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2005-06-30

doh'! Oh well, DS, Wii, I'm can't wait to get my hands on both of em!

*Wearing the nintendo fanboy hat since Mario Kart

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RE[2]: Preemptive

by Captain N. on Wed 10th May 2006 18:27 in reply to "RE: Preemptive"

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2005-07-07

Me too!! (Wearing my Nintendo fanboy hat since the very first Legend of Zelda game)

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