E3: New Wii Channel shown

By Robert Purchese Published 11 July, 2007

Check Mii Out.

Nintendo's US boss Reggie Fils-Aime showed off a new Channel for Wii at the company's E3 conference earlier today.

It's called Check Mii Out and is based around Mii avatars created by people around the world. It will let you vote on other creations and even take home ones you really like. There's no word yet on when it will be available.

Nintendo displayed the Channel as part of its ongoing commitment to the online world, alongside announcements of multiplayer enabled titles like Mario Kart, and the WiiWare game download service (Wii Software in Europe) promised next year.

Head over to our Live Text commentary of the event to catch up with the other announcements, and watch out for a detailed roundup with better jokes soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • captainrentboy #1 5 years ago

    Fuck me, that's exciting! Now I really need to get myself a Wii.

  • spongebob #2 5 years ago

    New Wii Channel shown. That's basically all the information we got now. How great. Thanks Nintendo.

  • FaceOmeter #3 5 years ago

    I'm kind of surprised they didn't do this earlier... still, nice little addition!

    Oh please god make Metroid and Mario Kart good or I'm jumping out the wiindow

  • jonsaan #4 5 years ago

    Lets hope they release some more variations for making mii's as the choice of parts is frustratingly limited right now.

  • FaceOmeter #5 5 years ago

    yeah you can't have ginger hair!

    storm tokyo!

  • HonestJoe #6 5 years ago

    is it just me and my girlfirend that think the wii voting channel is ace?! seriously, it's probably what we use the wii most for!

  • niz #7 5 years ago

    "Lets hope they release some more variations for making mii's as the choice of parts is frustratingly limited right now."

    Yeah, maybe they could even sell them?

    I can hardly wait to give Nintendo my cash for a new set of moustaches or hairdos I could use on my Miis and them show them off on the Mii Channel!!

  • FaceOmeter #8 5 years ago

    @ HonestJoe: no it's not just you, myself and three housemates were hooked from day one. we get genuinely antsy over who has the highest prediction percentage...

    I wish they'd put "Microsoft Vs Sony" on it though, that would be nice and un-PC.

  • knocker #9 5 years ago

    Nonsense. Mii's are great.

    Where else would you see Jesus, Saddam and Mario in the same baseball team ?

    Saddam is pretty good too !

  • bushwod #10 5 years ago

    @groovemeister

    Sounds like you'd be better of with PS3 Home then, or why don't you just fuck off to second life?

  • FaceOmeter #11 5 years ago

    "Miis are crap anyway. You can't proportion the body, make it only makes it bigger or smaller and the hair, etc is all predefined. If the Miis were half good, maybe it'd be worth getting a tad excited about. As it is, it's a shit add on for something shit. "

    They have a cave troll!

  • Carrybagma #12 5 years ago

    and even take home ones you really like.

    Ooer. I think this channel could become home to a Wii swinging community.