Nov 28, 2007

Nintendo is showing signs of moving a up a gear in the online department as it teams up with Japanese telecoms pꦫrovider, Nippon Telegraph and Tel🎐ephone Corp (NTT), to promote Wii's online capabilities in Japan.

The firm is regarded as the trailing party against 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft and Sony when it comes to online integra🐼tion and gaming, but this new deal is part of Nintendo's effort to boost the Wii's online service, in preparation for the launch of WiiWare (known as Wii Software i🌌n Europe) - a new game download service - next year.

NTT will offer discounted internet start up packages and set-up help for Wii users, in the hope of utilising the Wii's fast-growing user base to help boost the penetration of its fibre optic internet service.

NTT East senior exec VP, Tetsuo Koga, said: "I hope our fibre-optic service becomes as pop༺ular as the Wii. I think we have won a powerful ally to hit our target to boost fibre-optic subscribers to 20 million by the year ending March 2011."

Online Mario Kart here we come!