Wii to get News Feeds and Firefox

Nintendo is looking to beef up it's web content on the Wii. Where others have failed to merge web and television, Nintendo thinks they can do it successfully. Perhaps they just need to provide compelling web content for use with the Wii to be successful.

Today, Nintendo announced two initiatives, first Mozilla Firefox web browser will be coming to the Wii to steal more market share as they've done on the PC/Mac. It will utilize the Wiimote motion and buttons to navigate web pages. It will feature a text entry system that boasts the ability to enter 50 words-per-minute.

Secondly, a partnership between Nintendo and the Associated Press to provide worldwide headlines to the Wii. Nintendo will build a custom web page for the Opera Browser (no word if the application will work with Firefox but there’s a good chance that it will.) Users will be presented with an interactive global map allowing you navigate using the Wii controller.

You will simply move over to the section of the world you’re interested in and zoom in to view headlines for that region. At launch, the content will be text and still images but Nintendo is hoping to expand to a full range of multimedia.

The news service is set to launch Saturday, Jan. 27th.