Soon, we'll be able to give the gift of classic gaming. Also, Wii production has increased to 1.8 million per month.
The Associated Press is reporting that Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has announced a new feature of the Wii that will allow consumers to purchase Virtual Console games and then send them to friends over the Internet.
Details are sparse, but apparently users who receive and accept a game gift will have the Wii Shop Channel on their console open automatically, at which time the game will start downloading. Iwata did not mention a time frame for the service to begin.
"We think this will be a breakthrough in encouraging customers to spread news of fun games [by] word of mouth," Iwata said. He went on to say that Nintendo hopes this new feature will encourage more Wii owners to connect to the Internet, something Nintendo has stated before that it is aggressively pursuing.
In the same AP article, Iwata remarked that Nintendo has increased Wii production to 1.8 million consoles worldwide per month. There's no word on how the hardware would be distributed regionally, but it's certain that given the Wii's current popularity level, it's still going to be a hard-to-find item in all territories.
