Wii video on the way via Nintendo, Dentsu

December 28, 2008 Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency, said it would team up with game maker Nintendo to launch a video distribution service on Nintendo's wildly popular Wii console. The two companies plan to offer programs created for the service, a Dentsu spokesman said, in contrast to most online channels, which tend to carry existing TV shows and movies. Nintendo has sold 34.6 million Wii consoles, which feature a motion-sensing controller that looks like a TV remote control, as of the end of September, far outselling Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

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