Nintendo Readies Video Distribution Service, Exclusive Video Content for Wii Game Console

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo Wii still cannot play conventional DVDs and it is still unclear when, if at all, it will get that capability, however, Nintendo does understand importance of digital distribution of content and will start to offer appropriate service in 2009.

Nintendo will team up with ad agency Dentsu to launch a video distribution service on the Wii console, according to a Nikkei business daily news-paper, which was quoted by Reuters news-agency. The service will initially offer cartoons and entertainment shows “created for the new service to differentiate it from other” online delivery video services, which offer existing content.

The service will get online early next year in Japan and the company plans to launch a similar offering in the USA later in 2009, according to the media report. The video service will not be free and will establish a new revenue stream for Nintendo.

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