It’s one of those rumours that’s come via a friend of a colleague of an ex of a third cousin twice removed of an extraterrestrial visitor, but if it’s to be believed in spite of this, Nintendo is apparently looking at making the Wii U controller (and, by extension, the 3DS) an e-reader device.
This is all according to a report over on media collective ,Forget the Box, where gaming and tech writer, Mike Gwilliam, claims that a “good friend in Los Angeles who works for a software developer” was approached by Nintendo to port some undisclosed software from iOS over to the Wii U. Although the specifics aren’t provided for confidentiality reasons, it’s assumed this is some kind of reader software.
“Nintendo is planning to launch a digital e-reader type service where you can download books, magazines, newspapers, comics, and other publications to your Wii U console,” writes Gwilliam. “These publications would stream to your Wii U controller’s touchscreen, and you could go lay in your bed or couch and read them. The touch screen would be used to flip through pages of an e-book or magazine, and there would even be a searchable index.”
Gwilliam’s source also alleged that the Nintendo 3DS would share the Wii U’s e-reader service, in much the same way that the iPad and iPhone / iPod devices share content from the Apple App Store.
Nintendo has yet to confirm or deny this, but it doesn’t actually seem all that unlikely, actually. With the Wii U’s competitors, the Xbox 360 and PS3, increasingly providing a range of expanded media services, it makes sense that Nintendo’s next console would do likewise.
The Wii U doesn’t yet have a launch date, but it’s expected sometime in the second half of this year. Look out for it at E3 in June, I’m sure.
Source: Forget the Box
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