Nintendo Network Service Database (NSD), formerly known as Wii no Ma, was a Japanese company. Originally created by
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
to provide
digital entertainment Digital entertainment Industry includes, but is not restricted to, any combination of the following industries (that themselves have a considerable degree of overlap):
*digital media
*new media
*video on demand
*video games
*interactive entertainmen ...
as a service for Wii owners, the company has since been renamed.
Until its liquidation, Nintendo Network Services handled all
Nintendo Network
The Nintendo Network is Nintendo's online service which provides online functionality for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems and their compatible games. Announced on January 26, 2012 at an investors' conference, it is Nintendo's second online ser ...
operations, including programming and server maintenance inside Nintendo's in-house projects through its
Nintendo Network Business & Development
commonly abbreviated as Nintendo SDD and formerly known as Nintendo Network Business & Development (NBD), Nintendo Network Service Development (NSD), and Nintendo Special Planning & Development (SPD), was a Japanese division located in the Nint ...
division and throughout various other external online software infrastructures. Lastly, the company also cooperated in developing third party online infrastructures compatible with Nintendo consoles and the Nintendo Network.
History
Wii no Ma
was a video-on-demand service channel run by
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
in co-operation with
Dentsu to produce the programs and advertisements. Wii no Ma was viewable by those with a
Wii
The Wii ( ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other Regional lockout, regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major ho ...
and an
Internet connection and it featured family-oriented content, such as
cartoon
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s, brain-training quizzes, cookery, educational shows, and other programs produced exclusively for Nintendo. Broadcast began in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
on May 1, 2009.
In 2010, several trademarks were filed for the name.
The channel's interface was built around a virtual living room, where up to eight Miis could be registered and interact with each other. The virtual living room contained a TV which took the viewer to the video list. Celebrity "concierge" Mii's occasionally introduced special programming.
The senior executive at
Fuji Television
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba
today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially b ...
stated that if plans to make the
Wii
The Wii ( ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other Regional lockout, regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major ho ...
the centerpiece of the living room took off in a meaningful way, it would be the stuff of
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
producers' nightmares.
A DSiWare application called ''
Dokodemo Wii no Ma'' could be downloaded free for Japanese users of the Nintendo DSi, and allowed them to download programs from ''Wii no Ma'' on the Wii onto the DSi, and then play them back. It also allowed users to download coupons onto the DSi, which can be scanned off the screen at a store.
2012 renaming
Nintendo ceased operation of the Wii no Ma Channel on April 30, 2012, renaming the company Nintendo Network Service Database.
In 2018, Nintendo Network Services was liquidated.
Other
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Netflix
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Video on demand
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See also
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Nintendo Video
Nintendo Video was a video on demand service for the Nintendo 3DS which streams hand-picked 3D and 2D video content from CollegeHumor, Aardman Animations, Blue Man Group, Channel Frederator Network and other studios. Previously, the service was a ...
*
St.GIGA
, trading as , was a Japanese satellite radio company headquartered in Akasaka, Tokyo. The company was established on April 2, 1990 as a subsidiary of the television station provider WOWOW, achieving a cult following through its "Tide of Sound" ...
's
Satellaview
References
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