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Pay for Opera, say Nintendo. Browser update to cost 500 points.
Lord Jezo
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heh.
Nintendo to anyone who was an early adopter who got the free browser.
http://gonintendo.com/?p=62555
Gotta pay anyway.
500 points for the Opera update. Anyone who hasn't paid yet has to pay now.
Suckers.
f that noise.
Nintendo to anyone who was an early adopter who got the free browser.
http://gonintendo.com/?p=62555
Gotta pay anyway.
500 points for the Opera update. Anyone who hasn't paid yet has to pay now.
Suckers.
- New buttons
- Wii Speak Compability
- See your Wii mail from within the browser
- tab cube keeps track of 6 tabs, can be made invisible
- 500 Wii Points
- due out this December
- If you paid for the first version of the browser, you don’t have to pay for this one
f that noise.
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How about no. Why would I pay for the inconvenience of a wii browser when I can pay nothing for the convenience of one on the playstation 3 or on my goddamn computer where I do most of my browsing anyway.
Jesus.
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As for not getting it for free...well, don't update it and use the free version you have. It's still perfectly functional for basic browsing.
lolnintendo. Schadenfreude is a real bitch.
Is this any surprise? From the nunchuk to wii motion plus to the class controller to the unresellable nature of the Wii Speak Channel, Nintendo has been looking to find low cost/high margin ways to wring every last dollar out of the faithful and their new audience.
Sony became a mockery through stupidity. Nintendo's doing it through malice.
Actually, it is. Except for the Motion Plus, I didn't actually see any malice in Nintendo's EVUL PLAAAANS like you seem to do.
I have to wonder, though, what does this mean for the DSi browser? Will I get an upgrade I'll have to pay for?
That being said I already bought it way back when.
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What he said. I'm not about to downplay the benefits of having an effective browser on a console hooked up to your TV - I probaby browse the internet on my PS3 90% of the time - but to charge for the privelige? I don't care if it's five bucks or ninety-nine cents. You're Nintendo, you're richer than God and it's time to take better care of your customers!
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tabbed browsing when having just one page is slow as shit already? that's a joke.
I have flash movies and videos I want to watch on my TV, damnit.
Hey, if Sony wanted to charge me $5 for a 16x9 supported browser, I'd do it, too. So, I guess I'm just a consumer whore.
I'm not surprised by this, because browsing never was a bullet-point feature of the Wii, and if you don't want to pay for it, you'll still have the version you got for free. It isn't like Live which actually is a mostly nonexistent service if you don't pay for it, nor is it a recurring payment.
Seriously, you guys are on the right track by not paying for it if you don't like it. It's our only option these days - it's a limiting option, but that's the price of indignation.
The PS3 recently got an update which let you play a certain Flash, though I don't remember which.
I do know I can now watch Hulu on my TV though. Is that Flash 9?
First: What kind of update is this?
Is this like the Photo Channel 1.1 where it's completely optional, and if you don't update it, you still have a perfectly functional Photo Channel 1.0?
Or is this like the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo Channel updates, where a screen will randomly appear one day telling you it must be updated before it can be used again? (Only this time, the update costs 500 points.)
Second: Are we sure we're interpreting this correctly? How do we know this isn't more like "If you've never downloaded the Internet Channel before, you'll have to pay 500 points just like you would have had to before this update anyway."? Is this really a 500 point cost to anyone and everyone, regardless of when the original browser was downloaded?
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No it isn't. Paying for a browser that is an upgrade of a free one is not reasonable. Hell, paying for a browser isn't reasonable.
Not when it's an extra, not a necessity.
Still stupid move if true though.
No.
1- It's not a great browser.
2- Great browsers on PC are free.
Since when is 5$ for a shitty browser, or any browser for that matter, reasonable?
Its software that someone spent money developing, testing and deploying. Its worth money. Don't want to pay it? Don't use it. Capitalism at work.
This is just retarded. There are more ways to make money off of a product than simply selling it for money. There is also a reason console developers usually provide free shit instead of nickle and dimeing you to death. There is a reason Opera is free on PCs and the PS3 browser is free. There is also a reason why people expect free shit not to force you to pay for relatively small updates. "lolcapitalism" arguments simplify complex issues into one stupid argument that ignores why people expect this shit to be free.
I would like to know how you expect the companies to know why people aren't spending money on this shit. Bitching about it is a way to tell companies why many people aren't buying their shit.
You can't surf the net on a 360.
Wait did MS add a browser in the NXE? As far as I know the 360 doesn't have a browser.
So use your PC/PS3 browser then?
The sense of entitlement on these forums is just retarded. It wasn't that long ago that people were paying for browsers on the PC.
Huh?
Guys, don't pay for it. Simple as that. Use the free version you got if you have it.
I think it's retarded to play for online gaming since I get that for free on the PC as well. Hence, I don't and never will have a Gold account. Some of my friends think it's retarded to pay to play emulated NES games when they are free* on the PC, and thus they don't buy old stuff on Arcade or VC. But this generation has proven that you can charge whatever you want for something as long as you control the hardware and the network. If you want it from them, you pay their price.
why pay more to use it on different devices
:shock:
Oh........well then...
I'm actually kinda surprised at that. Well, go Sony I guess...
I've had the Internet since 1996 or so, I don't remember the exact date, and I never paid a cent for any browser ever. Should we stop expecting free firmware updates too? I mean, feeling entitled to something that was always provided for free is "retarded" for sure.
The browser isn't free. Early adopters got a browser for their services as a beta tester, but that free ride has ended a long time ago (more than 18 months ago?)
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Surfing the internet on something that is not an actual PC always comes off as retarded to me. Are people seriously using a console as their (and I'll bold this because someone will surely take this out of context) primary means of accessing the internet?