Nintendo's Wii to provide AP news
News is coming to gamers. The Wii News Channel debuted Saturday for users of the Wii console, featuring top news stories and photographs from The Associated Press.
News is displayed through an interactive map, which users can navigate with the Wii's wireless controller.
"The beauty of it is it zooms in and out of areas of the world," she said. "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 AP has a two-year contract to provide news and photos to Nintendo and would like to provide multimedia in the future, said Jane Seagrave, vice president of new media markets for the New York-based news cooperative.
"It's a very innovative new application of what we're doing generally, which is to try to get our content to new audiences on new platforms," Seagrave said.
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