Soon you can read
headlines after the match

Nintendo launches an online news service through its popular Wii console this Sunday. The Wii News Channel, scheduled to debut Saturday, will primarily feature top news stories and photographs courtesy of a two-year contract with the Associated Press, according to an AP story.

News will be displayed through an interactive map, which users can navigate with the Wii's wireless controller, said Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo's VP of Marketing in the States. "The beauty of it is it zooms in and out of areas of the world. So if you really want to focus on regional news or national news versus international, you just blow up the map of the U.S."

"The Nintendo Wii demographic is definitely a wider demographic than your traditional hardcore gamer," said Billy Pidgeon, a video game industry analyst at IDC in New York. "It kind of makes sense for other types of content to be made available on the Wii."

There are reportedly no immediate plans to sell advertising space.