Wii Channels using Flash Player? Interactive Wii TV
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
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Take a close look at these FLV videos on the Nintendo Wii. It looks like the entire Wii channel UI is done in Flash Player and SWF. It looks like Wii is taking Flash to a new level combined with the Wii remote. I still need to get confirmation that this is Flash Player but the transparency, vector shapes, animation, and haloBlue color look way too familiar.
Wii Menu
Mii Channel
Wii Forcast Channel
Wii News Channel
Opera Wii Partnership
Opera & Adobe Partnership
Also look carefully at the channel screens.
What I find interesting is that Nintendo seems to have solved the remote to UI mouse problem. Look at the user managing these screens with the Wii remote. That is a new form of mouse and it looks to be very intuitive to use. Just point and click. The user can pull, push, and move the mouse in 3d space while the UI reacts. It looks like Wii has a much more ambitious plan in store. If you add in FLV support then this is interactive television.
It sure would be great to make console games with AS3 and deploy them to Wii via SD cards as a native console binary. Casual gaming and game development would never be the same. If a specialized Wii Adobe Flash Player contained an intrinsic API for their controller we could make games with Flex Builder or Flash Authoring exporting a SWF compiled against a custom .abc file. Casual platform gaming meets the Adobe Engagement Platform.
Disclosure: I own shares of both Nintendo and Adobe.
Cheers,
Ted :)
It also looks like "WarioWare: Smooth Moves" might be Flash based also. The displayed graphic looks like Flash vector drawing too.
hmmmmm....
Mass Microgames == SWF???
Ted :)
http://wii.nintendo.com/software_warioware.html
Is there anyway you can confirm with Nintendo it is Flash-based? (being a share holder and all :) ).
Would have expected a media release from Adobe if it was
cheers
It looks like Nintendo leveraged the deal with Opera to make this happen.
Nintendo <--> Opera - May 10, 2006
Opera <--> Adobe - Sept. 6, 2006
My hunch is that the UI is just running in a custom Opera shell.
I cannot confirm its Flash Player but it has all the halmarks of Flash. Even the "Delete" button on Mii looks like a horizontally streched Flash Button. It is pulled horizontally and is distorted in classic Flash fashion.
Shareholders get no special treatment, we only know what is publically available.
If this is Flash Player, it is a coup. This would make 2 consoles that run Flash, XBox360 and Wii.
Ted :)