Not too long ago, we found out that Nintendo has plans to launch a video service for the Wii. This new channel is going to bring video content that is both free (via advertising) and fee-accessed. We also learned that this channel is going to be launched worldwide, with a North American release coming later in 2009.

The channel will be flooded with original content, with most of it focused on family-friendly material. With Nintendo doing so well in Japan, many Japanese TV executives are very interested in seeing how this service does. If it launches and becomes a success, it could take away a lot of viewers from traditional TV outlets. One senior executive at Fuji Television says that if the Wii channel turns out to be a hit, it will be “the stuff of television producers' nightmares”.

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