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View Poll Results: What's the most useless channel on the Wii so far?
Disc Channel 1 1.27%
Mii Channel 1 1.27%
Photo Channel 18 22.78%
Shop Channel 0 0%
Weather Channel 6 7.59%
News Channel 8 10.13%
Everybody Votes Channel 41 51.90%
Internet Channel 1 1.27%
Notes/Addresses/Mail Function 3 3.80%
Voters: 79. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 13-07-2007, 06:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I was watching a video blog the other day and someone mentioned that they thought that the best channel on the Wii was the Shop Channel.

I would strongly disagree with this, as I think the best channel is undoubtedly the Disc Channel - the one you navigate to play the game you've just inserted.....after all, it's what I have a Wii for .

They also mentioned that the worst channel for them is the Weather Channel, but again, I disagree as I find it quite usefull to know the weeks forecast ahead of time (even though it's not always as accurate as the BBC Weather widget I have ).

Anyways, that got me to thinking, what is everyone's most useless channel? The one they wish Nintendo would've been better binning and using the resources to give us better games instead?
For me it's the Everybody Votes channel. What a waste of space (mildly interesting initially but quickly got boring after that ------ the fact that this thread is a poll itself is not lost on me.....oooh the irony ).

So what's your worst channel so far and why?

PS I added the option of Address/Mail/Notes as it is a seperate function which acts like a seperate channel




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Old 13-07-2007, 07:00 PM   #2 (permalink)
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i would say "Everyone votes" since its pritty pointless

Weather can be good, likewise with news and internet.

Disc is the 'best' as it allows you to play games

TBH i like Mii's and would like to see them added to more games. it makes it more personal and when you play against other people it makes it easier to identify your self.
i think i read that on Mario Kart you can be a Wii instead of a character which would be good, though am sure i'll play as DK or Wario

PS: am pritty sure i'd of voted for that new one, the 'Rate Mii' thing - sounds even more pointless than wii vote.
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Old 13-07-2007, 07:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Bit of a tie between weather and Everyone votes, but I will say the voting is worse, becuase the weather has at least SOME use.
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For me the weather channel is most useless because of all the other sources I can find. Everybody Votes is close second. Everybody Votes would be cool if you could win wii points for correctly guessing the outcomes to questions and would be much more favourable





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whats the point of a mii channel? all the rest have a good use. even the evc channel, would be my 2nd choice mind you.


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It's between the News Channel or the Weather Channel. It comes down to which one I have used least (although I haven't used either that much). With both of these, I can get on the TV and internet, and it tends to be more accurate too. My vote will go with the weather channel.

Actually, no! I forgot about the Photo Channel. I never use that, seeing as I can view videos and photos on my PC, which I'm on quite a lot anyway. The only use is sending pictures to people, which I can do through msn anyway.

I quite like the Everybody Votes channel, it's interesting to see how the votes break down, especially with the world wide ones.



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I voted for the News Channel.
It's never as up to date as the BBC website and doesn't provide the same amount of stories.
And you can't get local news!

EVC is pretty pointless, but it gives you something to do quickly when you have a spare moment and can make you think about some stuff you haven't before... I could only just remember what I had to eat 2 days ago

The weather is ok, it would've been better if they gave more towns/cities so you could get a closer one to where you live, but spinning the world around in globe mode makes up for it


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i love the everybody votes channel, you must all like having a vote, you just did after all.
i hear the weather chanel is going to be used for real time weather conditions in games. i voted for the news channel, can't imagine how they could use that in a game?


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Maybe in future sports games, when someone gets announced for another team on the channel, you could sync the game to real life.

Could possibly also use the news channel for any quiz games





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On the wii is there any games that you can play online.
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