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Wii Shop Channel Gets a Gift Feature

Akira_EX | October 28, 2007 | News | Wii 
Announced on Friday by Nintendo is a new feature for the Wii Shop Channel--the channel where Wii owners can buy Virtual Console games and WiiWare. This new feature will allow Wii owners to gift Virtual Console games to any of their Wii friends, by purchasing the game on the Wii Shop Channel, and then sending a notice to the friend's Wii to download the game.

This makes for some good possibilities. Birthday Gifts? Secret Santa?

The estimated launch is unknown, but many assume it will be in time for the holidays.
Wii owners will soon be able to buy games on the Wii Shop to send to a friend's Wii via a new gift feature, Nintendo has revealed.

The new Wii Shop feature will allow users to purchase a game (a Virtual Console game, for example) to send as a gift to another Wii owner. The recipient will then be notified of the gift and, once they accept, their Wii will automatically log into the Wii Shop to download the selected game.

Nintendo hopes this will get a larger portion of Wii owners to make use of the Wii's online capabilities. Company president, Satoru Iwata, said: "We think this will be a breakthrough in encouraging customers to spread news of fun games [other than by?] word of mouth."

"We also hope to spur more users to connect their Wiis to the Internet," he added, reports Yahoo.

A launch date for the new feature is yet to be set.

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    black doom | October 28, 2007
    Wow, so I get free games if I pretend to be someones friend, I love it.
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    Jaw Knee | October 28, 2007
    I really doubt anyone would use this. Here on Neoseeker anyway. It's a nice little addition though.
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    nflsmc | October 29, 2007
    When you buy the game and send it to someone, do you both get it or just them?

    Also, why can't you just send them Wii points, so they can choose which game they want?
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      Catboy14 | October 29, 2007
      Well you wouldn't both get it because then you get 2 games for the price of 1, which wouldn't happen.

      And yeah, sending Wii points would probably be better.
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    twilightprince | October 29, 2007
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    When you buy the game and send it to someone, do you both get it or just them?
    That's what I was wondering.

    It would be cool if we get to keep the game as well, but I doubt it. If that's the case, I'm forcing my friend to send me alot of games.
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    Kazooieman | October 29, 2007
    Thats sick... my friends birthday is on November 12th so if it come sout by then i'll be able to buy him 2 Nes and 1 N64 game! =D

    Thankyou Nintendo!
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    Xegaldis | October 29, 2007
    Aww, this is sweet. I don't mind this actually, I think if I'm in a really generous mood I may even buy one for someone for Christmas, that's if it's out by then. I'm wondering what NFLMC is too, do you both get the game, or just the other person?

    I imagine only the person who's receiving it will get the game, but hwo knows..
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    Unity | October 29, 2007
    Awesome.

    I know tons of people who would love this. Not to mention that it reduces the level of hassle of buying items from online or from the store. Thanks Nintendo!

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