What is WiiWare?

Patience is a virtue, a wise man once said, and nowhere is this more true than the circumstances surrounding the story we’re about to bring you right now. A month or so before the March Game Developers Conference, Nintendo’s PR agency approached us about a hush-hush new content initiative that the company had been cooking up, and wanted to know whether or not we’d be interested in being the first to get the lowdown. We were. But GDC came and went without any more information. From then on, we’d check in with Nintendo from time to time, but no new information was forthcoming, not even about when new information might be forthcoming. So we began to despair. But on Monday, the folks at Golin Harris PR reached out to us again to inform us that the time was now, that the offer was still on the table, and that Nintendo of America president Reginald Fils-Aime would be available to speak with us Tuesday afternoon. We spoke with him, and here’s what we learned.

Wii Media Center X

Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.