Previiew the Wiide world of the Mii Plaza
Walk a miile in a Mii’s shoes in this preview of Mii functionality from Reuters’ Gameworld. Your Mii is your in-Wii avatar, your passport, if you will, to interacting with both your Mii-enabled games and other Miis in the Mii Channel.
The Mii Plaza is the “lobby” for all Mii users, where you’ll first drop in after you first turn on your Wii. You, Mii, and Duprii many, many other users who’ll be bumping into each other in the Plaza: the Mii Channel can hold up to 100 Miis at a time.
Are you through networking? Let’s get that Mii’s game on. We already know, thanks to all the Wii game previews we’ve had, that Miis can be dropped into a game to interact with the game environment – such as in Wii Sports where you – well, Mii – becomes the player. (A funny: drop the Mii into Red Steel, and the Mii becomes the protagonist? Imagine a dual-pistol-wielding Mii!)
But Miis can also be dropped into online messages, too – the Reuters source article says “emails,” so we presume Wii users can send emails to each other and attach their Mii avatars to them, like a sort of “video message.”
Short preview as it is, it still shows off how the Mii could be used as a networking and communications tool as well as a gaming device – and as a cute distraction. Expect to see a Wiide, Wiild world of Miis online as each new Wii hooks up to the net.
Walk a miile in a Mii’s shoes in this preview of Mii functionality from Reuters’ Gameworld. Your Mii is your in-Wii avatar, your passport, if you will, to interacting with both your Mii-enabled games and other Miis in the Mii Channel.
The Mii Plaza is the “lobby” for all Mii users, where you’ll first drop in after you first turn on your Wii. You, Mii, and Duprii many, many other users who’ll be bumping into each other in the Plaza: the Mii Channel can hold up to 100 Miis at a time.
Are you through networking? Let’s get that Mii’s game on. We already know, thanks to all the Wii game previews we’ve had, that Miis can be dropped into a game to interact with the game environment – such as in Wii Sports where you – well, Mii – becomes the player. (A funny: drop the Mii into Red Steel, and the Mii becomes the protagonist? Imagine a dual-pistol-wielding Mii!)
But Miis can also be dropped into online messages, too – the Reuters source article says “emails,” so we presume Wii users can send emails to each other and attach their Mii avatars to them, like a sort of “video message.”
Short preview as it is, it still shows off how the Mii could be used as a networking and communications tool as well as a gaming device – and as a cute distraction. Expect to see a Wiide, Wiild world of Miis online as each new Wii hooks up to the net.