Conduct an Opera with the Nintendo Wii
Published by Budda May 10th, 2006 in Gadgets, Entertainment, Consoles & Video Gaming.
The new Nintendo Wii with its fancy TV remote controller has just found another use with the news of a certain web browser being built in to the forthcoming console.
Having already confirmed a deal to put their web browser software on Nintendo’s handheld DS earlier this year, Opera have now announched that they will be providing the web browser technology for the Wii when it launches later this year.
Given Opera’s long support of gesture interfaces in their browser, this is an excellent matchup for the Wii’s remote control capabilities.
The press release in full:
A Web Revolution in the Living room: Opera partners with Nintendo to put browser on the Wii™ game console
Oslo, Norway and Los Angeles, Calif., May 10, 2006Opera Software, a world leader in Web browser technology, 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.
“Nintendo is clearly visionary in leading the gaming industry into the new era in gaming, and a wonderful partner for Opera,” says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Nintendo, and work with them to deliver the best gaming experience on the Wii console and the Nintendo DS™.”
“For our Wii console launch in 2006, we required a browser that was fast and secure with support for the latest standards including AJAX. Opera proved perfect for our purposes and is an exceptional addition to both the Nintendo DS and the Wii console,” said Genyo Takeda, senior managing director and general manager, Integrated Research & Development Division, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Opera and Nintendo announced their partnership to deliver the full Opera browser for the Nintendo DS on February 15, 2006. The Nintendo DS browser is scheduled for release in Japan this summer. Nintendo has not yet announced its global launch plans for this product.
Source: buttonbashers.com
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2 Responses to “Conduct an Opera with the Nintendo Wii”
- 1 Trackback on May 11th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
I'm having a problem installing Opera 9.02 on FC5.
Every time I try to run it, it comes back with a “unable to find software information” error.
When I try to run it from the command line, I get 6 conflict errors.
I must add that I already have Opera 8.54 but I close it down before I try and run it.