You'd have never predicted it: Japan gets fortune-telling channel
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Dec 2nd 2008 at 1:42PM }
A pleasant surprise will have greeted Japanese Wii owners when they awoke this morning: a brand new Wii channel! Spencer from Siliconera freed up the necessary 82 blocks of space to download the "Today And Tomorrow's Lucky Fortune-Telling Channel," and wrote about his experiences.
Truthfully, it sounds very cute and novel, if a tad pointless. Six Miis can be added to the channel, which uses each Mii's preset birthday to calculate how lucky they are -- as you can see above, Mr. Green Jumper will be enjoying some good fortune! If you're down on your luck, you can change clothes to a luckier color by holding down the A and B buttons. Click on a Mii, and you'll be able to read what the future holds in five categories: love, work, school, communication, and money; while this Mii is pretty loved up, she is also penniless.
There are other modes to play with, including a friendship compatibility test, the results of which change daily. You can also get your Miis to ask about a certain subject, and receive three random words for you to interpret yourself.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bukizzle715 @ Dec 2nd 2008 2:08PM
Yay, more useless stuff. When are they going to come out with something good?
Sisyphus @ Dec 2nd 2008 2:29PM
For free? Never.
ramuji @ Dec 2nd 2008 2:57PM
Yeah, I was messing around with this channel a bit yesterday evening after I first downloaded it. I've never been a big fan of horoscopes, so I'm not sure how long I'll have much interest in this. Horoscope-type stuff is actually quite big in Japan, but usually based on blood type (A, B, AB, or O) rather than birthdate, so I'm kinda surprised there is nothing about blood type in this channel.
ZombieOrgasm @ Dec 2nd 2008 3:48PM
There was a time when I had faith in the Wii.
Sisyphus @ Dec 2nd 2008 3:54PM
Lol, the 360 is just now getting around to having Miis and Home gets pushed back more than a quadraplegic offensive linemen. Why have faith in a toy company?
leonus11 @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:19PM
oh i still keep my faith in the Wii! i just don't keep it in the channels! only channels i ever use are the Wiishop channel, internet channel (for whenever i get lazy) and the Nintendo channel. other then that no others (is the channel where the game disc that's inserted in the Wii shows up even a channel?).
Sonic_13 @ Dec 2nd 2008 6:09PM
Sweet. Sounds pretty cool. I hope it gets released here in the US soon.
I love that Nintendo develops stuff like this.
John Stout @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:57PM
Yes, it's the Disc Channel.
wiilover @ Dec 2nd 2008 10:32PM
r u serious now? NINTENDO! seriously?