{"id":5372,"date":"2009-04-07T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5372"},"modified":"2013-05-04T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T01:13:20","slug":"nintendo-preps-video-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/nintendo-preps-video-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Preps Video Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8445\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8445\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8445\" alt=\"Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Iwata-S.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>APRIL 7, 2009 \u2022 Nintendo Co. Ltd. president Satoru Iwata told the Wall Street Journal that the gamemaker will be launching a downloadable video service in Japan. A major feature Iwata mentioned was downloading video through the Wii and passing it along to the DSi for mobile viewing. If the video service does well in Japan, he said Nintendo will launch it overseas, as well. In other news, in the three days after its April 5 launch in North America and Europe, Nintendo said 300,000 units each had been sold in both markets.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: There have been rumors about Nintendo launching an on-demand video service for the Wii for some time.\u00a0 Surprisingly, Nintendo is already talking about adding this to the DSi.\u00a0Of course, do not expect this to be major competition with the video services offered for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.\u00a0There has been no confirmation of a launch date or specific details and it is clear that Japan will be a test bed market well before there is a worldwide rollout.\u00a0In other words, this announcement was more talk than action.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 7, 2009 \u2022 Nintendo Co. Ltd. president Satoru Iwata told the Wall Street Journal that the gamemaker will be launching a downloadable video service in Japan. A major feature Iwata mentioned was downloading video through the Wii and passing it along to the DSi for mobile viewing. If the video service does well in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8444,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}