Nintendo Wii to add Netflix service for streaming video

The service, to start in the spring, is one more sign that game consoles are aiming to be a hub of entertainment in the living room.
(From The New York Times)

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[solitare_pax]

Unless they can modify the Wii so movies can double as first-person shooters for the really bad parts, I'm not interested...

[monkeyfun14]

So it won't do HD Netflix?

[Mr_fleabite]

it doesn't have the goods for displaying HD content.
I wonder if Wii netfilx will display the actors as oversized bobbling heads and cartoonish bodies?

[Mr_fleabite]

The writer makes a good point about endless sequels. It seems this is a general trend in the entertainment industry, movies, books, games, many are set up from the start to either be a series, or if they are a success, to throw a sequel on a year down the line. Then there are the remakes of successes past to be rehashed and tweaked so that a series can be started from them. Original gems seem to be fewer and far between, what happened? Maybe it's just nostalgia, but it seems any new success in entertainment is a horse to be flogged mercilessly.