Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced today during the Japanese Nintendo Direct that Google Maps will be integrated with Panorama View to allow you to pick a location around the globe and view it on the GamePad. You can go into Street View mode and twist and turn the GamePad till your heart’s content. Sounds like a neat feature. Google Maps on Wii U will be free to download for a limited time after its debut in January in Japan.
That’s neat…
Um…. Okay….. This is cool but feels useless…. It whould be more useful on the 3ds
Exactly what I was thinking. It’s cool, but pretty useless. It’s not like you can slap the Wii U on your dashboard while driving.
It’s as useful as the PC Google Maps then.
At least with the PC version, you can hook up a printer and print something out, like directions (which I do not suggest).
But yeah, most people use Google Maps on mobile devices.
I dont see it as useless. I’ve already taken my wii u on road trips, its almost taken up what my laptop use to do. Now if my laptops low on battery. We could go to a jack in the box parking lot use the wii u in my back seat and use it for google maps. :) Plus the majority of people use google maps to mess around to look with. Or explore places from there home.
Wii U just keeps getting better and better and this only at launch
First mother..
awesome
i wonder why we need it, like why we need YouTube on wii u for?
Nintendo…What on earth is stopping you from putting these things on 3DS?
You are putting google maps on a home console and not a handheld…what in the world.
I remember experiencing the panorama view demo. It was so freaking cool but also impossibly mind boggling .-.
Lol it won’t run DVDs or blu ray movies but it’ll run a map app that’s totally useless. Next up, GPS
“Useless only as the person using it”
I guess you never wonder if there is another world
Outside of Wisconsin
I think it should work as Google earth. Why can people use their imagination?
Cool, a Google Earth-like system. It’s free too! :D
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