Just What You Need: A Wii Keyboard! Right?
- Scribbled on April 24th, 2007 by Derrick Schommer
- Filed in Nintendo Wii, Rumor Mill
Game Informer’s latest issue has a small snippet of text which talks about an incoming Wii keyboard. Rumor? Of course! Wishful thinking? Probably not.
What makes this rumor hold a bit of truth? Microsoft is releasing a keyboard for their Xbox 360 just in time to type MSN messages to buddies using an IM client on their console. Wouldn’t one of the competitors also try to jump on the “I’m a PC” bandwagon?
So many questions without answers. My reaction is simple: who cares? Really, does anyone feel inclined to go out and spend additional money on an accessory for their console which they probably have attached to a PC?
In my personal opinion, I’m going to fathom a guess that most gamers that want to surf the Net have been doing so on a PC that has the “horse power” to run a web browser. The article reads “Nintendo’s development teams says that it is considering adding a keyboard,” which means their still on the fence.
Hopefully, Nintendo has some statistics about their Opera browser usage, not just download counts. The browser is free, so we’re sure everyone downloaded it just to have it. The question is, does anyone actually use it? I don’t.
Maybe Nintendo’s team should drop the idea and consider developing a new release of R.C. Pro-Am instead.
(Thanks, Kotaku)
April 25th, 2007 at 10:07 am
A lot of games require you to imput a name or something. Be nice to be able to just type them in.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:19 am
You you pay, say 19.99 to 29.99 to enter your name?
April 25th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I would love to have 1, product. Just one. That would require one USB port. . .again only 1 port. This would be the bluetooth transmitter to not only a Wii Keyboard, but yes, a Wii mouse.
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June 25th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Personally I think the WII keyboard is great - I love reading the paper in the morning and if could read it off my big screen TV instead of going to the computer is great - the zooming in works great on the Opra browser vs hooking my computer to the TV.