By the time we get our hands on consoles, games, and even apps, there have already been multiple revisions during the design stages. Often, we'll see these concepts shared by the developers in various ways later down the line, but in this particular case, it's via a leak.
Yes, the Nintendo gigaleak has now given fans a look at a scrapped channel, that was internally titled "Bulletin Board Channel" or "What's New Channel". As you might have already worked out, it likely would have provided users with news updates. In the end though, as highlighted by Nintendo Everything, the Wii Message Board was the main source of news on the Wii.
That's not the only Wii Channel leak, either. The same Twitter user @lombTV has shared a pre-release build of the Wii Shop Channel dated 18th August 2006. The Wii Shop Channel, as you might recall, ended up looking a lot different when it was officially released, and has now of course been shut down.
Just last week, we got to see early Wii Remote concepts were uncovered in the second round of the Nintendo gigaleak. Do you miss the days of the Wii? How about the Wii Shop Channel and that famous music? Leave your thoughts down below.
[source twitter.com, via nintendoeverything.com]
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Q : How about the Wii Shop Channel and that famous music?
Me : I have listened Wii Shop Channel Krab Bop version from Youtube. 😛
https://youtu.be/CTJ4P1EmiD4
This is also my favorite, Wii Shop Channel Eurobeat Intensified version.
https://youtu.be/TixJ7zjnuoo
I like that mockup image that lists a game titled A Link to the Past, but with a 1999 release date, using a screenshot that's clearly from Sonic, and with rating labels for sex and violence.
Must be third or fourth "gigaleak" article lately. Is this the price we're paying for the relative Switch Pro hiatus?
レンタル中 meaning “Under rental” suggests that we might have been able to rent games from shop channel
@Anti-Matter Can't beat the Mr. Krabs version ^_^
When Nintendo actually cared about giving users a friendly, efficient and fun user interface. Switch menu and shop is like something you'd fine on some cheap Chinese tablet.
@Clyde_Radcliffe
Not just only the music theme from Wii and Wii U, the game box design for Wii and Wii U look better than Switch in my opinion.
The bulletin board channel sounds like a precursor to what we eventually got on Wii U, MiiVerse
@Anti-Matter Yep and I find the white on the Switch theme blinds me! So had to change to the dark one which looks even more depressing, lol... I still can't believe we don't have folders to organise our games better.
It's very weird. It feels sometimes like Nintendo fired all the people who designed their previous console menus.
I wonder what would happen if, rather than referring to this as "gigaleak", people started calling it "stolen data"?
'hard to miss the Wii when we still have it.
If we are not on the Switch, we are on the Wii!
'just played a round of "find the remote" from Wii Party just before we went camping! LOL. A lot more challenging now that the kids are older! LOL.
And we still have Gnomz!!! LOL!
@Jayenkai learn the definition of "Internet Leak"
I miss the Wii for all it’s quirks the shop was awesome as was the weather channel cryinggggggg
Wii Shop last I looked a few weeks back hadn't been shut down. What ceased was first the ability to add Wii Points to your balance and later on, the ability to actually spend those to buy content.
But unless something this summer has killed it off, the Wii Shop is still very much online. Past purchases can still be redownloaded, the Skyward Sword save fix can still be "purchased" and downloaded, and the Wii to Wii U transfer app can still be acquired and utilized.
It's of course a hollow shell of what it once was by killing off the ability to acquire new games, but it's obviously not shut down.
@mrbob1213 Was all this leaked by an employee or was it all from that major hack on Nintendo's servers?
So this is a Wii Leak.
Should get that looked at by a Dr.
@Clyde_Radcliffe this is a pretty standard look for Japanese software/webpages from that era. Hell in Japan it's not that hard to find software that looks like that in 2021.
lol, they list Sega's Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, 2 spots under the Mario World pic in the upper left corner screenshot. The picture looks like it's from another game.
@Tourtus it doesn't matter how it was obtained, it's still a leak of secret information
@mrbob1213 True it is secret (or was secret), but hacking their servers is like breaking and entering to get this kind of data while having it be leaked would be far less criminal.
@Clyde_Radcliffe
I liked the Wii U's home screen it was quirky, what I did not like were those awful load times between applications, admittedly it did get better but still very poor.
The Switch home screen is pure simplicity and I like it, even more so it's zero load times flicking back and fourth between things, yes we could have themes and folders, but overall I prefer it to those over complicated ones.
@Tourtus That absolutely made no sense at all. A leak is never legal, that's why it's called a leak. Again, learn the definition of an internet leak before pretending you know what you're talking about.
"An Internet leak occurs when a party's confidential information is released to the public on the Internet. Various types of information and data can be, and have been, "leaked" to the Internet, the most common being personal information, computer software and source code, and artistic works such as books or albums."
The "stolen data" you rather regard it as COULD of been just that...data that was stolen. There are cases of information or data being stolen that was not ever posted online.
This is not the case, the data was posted online. Therefore, it's not just stolen anymore. They've been leaked onto the internet.
@mrbob1213 I didn't say it wasn't illegal I just said leaking it, as in an employee dumping the data online, is not AS criminal as being an outsider and hacking into the database to get this data. One is a breach of corporate contract and one is a serious crime. Both are bad but one is worse.
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