Nintendo Announces Premium Wifi Content Plans

Nintendo has announced plans at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco to extend its Wifi connection on the successful Wii console to include access to "pay and play" content. The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay and Play system will require the user to buy points in order to access online components.

Games sold over the counter which make use of Pay and Play will have a red sticker, contrasting with the current blue logo for Wii Wifi games.

What do you think of this move? If the content is there to back it up, I guess it will be welcomed, but Nintendo's online offering has so far been disappointing compared to rival consoles.

Play Chess Online using Wifi and Nintendo Wii

The Nintendo Wii has been a smash hit but it's been a little short on titles that actually make use of the onboard wifi connection for online gaming. Hopefully 2008 will change all that and one game aiming to do just that is Wii Chess. Wii Chess uses "loop express", a conversion of the loop chess engine which ranked 3rd in the 2007 World computer chess championship in Amsterdam.

It has 10 levels of difficulty and will allow you to play anyone, anywhere using your wifi and internet connection.

Check out Chess on Wii

Nintendo Wii Games You Can Use Wifi With

After the difficulty of getting hold of one since its release, Nintendo Wiis are becoming more commonly available in the shops. If you have a Nintendo Wii and also have a Wifi router which allows you to connect to the net from your console, you might be interested in this list of wifi-compatible Wii games.