Tuesday 3 October 2006
If you struggled to make sense of the Japanese Wii Channel demo video we ę¾³ę“²å¹øčæ5开儖号ē åŽ†å²ęŸ„čÆ¢:brought you last month then here's a batch of screens from tšŸ¦©he English language version of Wii's start-up interface, including imagš•“es of the Mii character creator, the Virtual Console launcher and the main Channel page.

We're not convinced that all of Wii's Channels are of much useš† - when is your mum going to turn on the console, write out a note about ice cream on the message board and then save it on the off chance that you'll go straight to the message board next time you š“‚ƒboot up your Wii? Post-it notes are not defunct just yet.

Nintendo is obviously gunning fošŸ¼r a family-wide audience but let's hope it doesn't forget to shź§ƒow the same dedication to the more important matter of Wii's gaming line-up.

Above: With no specific Virtual Console channel, your interface is going to get crowded with new old-school downloads

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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked aą²žs a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.