BornOfFire
08-08-2007, 11:18 AM
Every now and then you wake up to find your Wii sitting there, pulsing with blue light. Usually when this happens it means that your console has been off carousing all night updating its system firmware, and that it's finally come home.
Today's batch of changes seem to be designed primarily to improve functionality over at the Wii shop. As of today's update you can search retro titles by name, category, publisher or genre (which will come in increasingly handy if Nintendo manages to keep up their brisk VC release schedule). Also present at the shop are hotlists for popular downloads and a new welcome screen which highlights 'reccomended' games.
Outside of the shop the Wii is sporting a few minor tweaks to its main interface. Now you have a big clock front and center on the home page as well as a forecast channel that will display your current weather condition in its channel icon box. The Wii message board has also gotten a minor facelift, with a few improvements to the display and sorting of messages, and the news channel icon now displays up to three headlines "ticker tape" style.
Here's a full itemized list of all the changes, courtesy of Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/07/nintendo-wii-system-update-3-is-now-live/).
Channels:
Digital Clock added to the Wii Menu right under the channel bar
Forecast Channel now displays the current condition directly in the Wii Menu in the Forecast Channel box
News Channel can now show 2 scrolling headlines at a time in the Wii Menu, 3 when you click on the button
Message Board now has the "Today's Accomplishments" message as a white message which allows it to stand out from other messages
Address Book entries can now be shifted around using A+B but only to empty spaces.
Calendar in Message Board no longer shows "Today's Accomplishment"
Scrolling messages in the Message Board now uses a different sound
Wii Shop Channel
New Welcome screen detailing 4 Recommended Titles and the points they cost. The title bar can be clicked on to bring up a list of 20 recommended games.
Titles You've Downloaded was moved to the main shop menu
New ways to browse
Popular Titles
Newest Additions remains the same
Search for a title which can use partial names
Search by Category
Search by Publisher
Search by Genre
System shows the different systems and how many titles have been released under each
Settings
Warning added pre-system update detailing that technically modified consoles may cease to function upon being updated. Also the only way to not accept an update is to power down the console by holding the button for 4 seconds.
Today's batch of changes seem to be designed primarily to improve functionality over at the Wii shop. As of today's update you can search retro titles by name, category, publisher or genre (which will come in increasingly handy if Nintendo manages to keep up their brisk VC release schedule). Also present at the shop are hotlists for popular downloads and a new welcome screen which highlights 'reccomended' games.
Outside of the shop the Wii is sporting a few minor tweaks to its main interface. Now you have a big clock front and center on the home page as well as a forecast channel that will display your current weather condition in its channel icon box. The Wii message board has also gotten a minor facelift, with a few improvements to the display and sorting of messages, and the news channel icon now displays up to three headlines "ticker tape" style.
Here's a full itemized list of all the changes, courtesy of Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/07/nintendo-wii-system-update-3-is-now-live/).
Channels:
Digital Clock added to the Wii Menu right under the channel bar
Forecast Channel now displays the current condition directly in the Wii Menu in the Forecast Channel box
News Channel can now show 2 scrolling headlines at a time in the Wii Menu, 3 when you click on the button
Message Board now has the "Today's Accomplishments" message as a white message which allows it to stand out from other messages
Address Book entries can now be shifted around using A+B but only to empty spaces.
Calendar in Message Board no longer shows "Today's Accomplishment"
Scrolling messages in the Message Board now uses a different sound
Wii Shop Channel
New Welcome screen detailing 4 Recommended Titles and the points they cost. The title bar can be clicked on to bring up a list of 20 recommended games.
Titles You've Downloaded was moved to the main shop menu
New ways to browse
Popular Titles
Newest Additions remains the same
Search for a title which can use partial names
Search by Category
Search by Publisher
Search by Genre
System shows the different systems and how many titles have been released under each
Settings
Warning added pre-system update detailing that technically modified consoles may cease to function upon being updated. Also the only way to not accept an update is to power down the console by holding the button for 4 seconds.