Nintendo Japan has revealed that the webkit-based internet browser for Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U system won’t play Flash video content, but it will support HTML5. Nintendo has also announced that the browser will support tabbed browsing that lets users keep track of several web pages at the same time. A new feature that Nintendo has incorporated into the browser is tilting the GamePad forward or backward to automatically scroll up and down through long web pages.
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Doesn’t even look like he has ads on his blog :).
I wouldn’t know i run Adblock+ Extension no websites including youtube videos have ads for me :P
@Witness He probably comments here that he’s reblogging an article to give credit to Sickr and Alba. I dont mind the reblogging comments :)
It’s not spamming. When you reblog, it automatically posts a comment like this.
lol nobody needs flash anyways. its getting less and less support by the day. Trolls will bash it somehow though
Flash is still good for games and animations! Don’t forget that!
Not really, some indie developers are looking at using Unreal Engine 3 for games on the internet, though flash animation is still around, some people actually use other software for animation.
Face it, flash is a dying format. I love it but its time to let it go.
flash is still used widely on the web even though it’s transitioning to html5. i think it’s silly to leave it off for now. i can see not taking more updates and keeping up with flash, but not offering basic support is weird, at least for the next year or so.
Even android the BIGGEST mobile platform right now stopped supporting flash back in march. Honestly…it’s not a big deal
Haha the amount of things that are stopping Flash. I don’t know why they do never thought of it as a bad thing :S. never botherd me but I would like to know why people wanna stop using flash. I just think of it as an extra. wanna make ur console do as much as i can but still having Wii U
It is because not everyone is guaranteed to have flash but html5 is built into every new browser so it is guaranteed that everyone has it.
not at all!!! before android 4.0 flash was included, YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD FLASH FROM GOOGLE PLAY!!! -thats what I did on my galaxy note 10.1
4.1 doesnt support flash.
Speak for yourself.
Please, tell us all in what way your web browsing experience on a WiiU will be significantly lessened by a lack of Flash support.
In all honesty I don’t understand why there’s a web browser to begin with… Unless you want to Google a walk through on the fly or something but I can’t ever see myself using an inbuilt web browser on ANY console, I have a laptop/smart phone for that and they do it much better…
Do they? I mean obviously nothing beats computer but phone is meh at best. I’m probably going to keep my gamepad by my bed at all times and play from there
In my experience my iPhone works fine as an on-the-go browser, even for when my laptop is in another room and can’t be bothered to get it, though I do use my laptop when it’s available.
Either way, it’s better than console web surfing. Though the touchscreen of the WiiU might change that.
Still, I’d sooner use my phone or laptop than my console.
Wii U’s browser will be useful for browsing mid-game, and watching videos on TV swiftly (as long as it loads quickly and with a high enough quality; something that doesn’t happen on my PS3).
Youtube. Newgrounds. Plenty of websites. PORN. PORN ON YOUR TV.
Good to know YouTube uses it, you can look up Let’s Plays when you’re stuck.
Third!
Queer.
Eventually in a few years HTML5 will be more popular so I don’t blame them for this decision.
okay, WTF is this shit. I dont understand what Flash and HTLM5, which is better and faster. All i know is everything is Flash.
Most things are HTML5 based now. All new content is and lots of old content is getting converted. Even big sites like YouTube, Facebook and RedTube use HTML5 now.
Excellent. This shows WiiU is forward thinking.
HTML5 will (arguably) replace Flash.
Smart move on Nintendo’s part! This also saved us money. (No licensing fees to pass on in the final cost.)
Awesome to know!
Still, if a webpage has a YouTube video, you wouldn’t be able to even tell what the video is unless YouTube switches or the Wii U displays the title and lets you click on it to view it in the YouTube app.
I am skeptical about the YouTube browser, though. The 360 version is still really buggy, some videos don’t even show up, and it even crashes every now and then since it seems that the developers aren’t really trying to maintain it. I hope the Wii U version has a least a little more care for it.
I don’t quite understand what you’re saying about YouTube videos here. Like, at all.
thats because the 360 youtube is an updated mobile version from the windows phone.
That’s a damned lie. You know why? There isn’t a YouTube Windows Phone app. Oops Mr Ignorant Lying Fanboy.
Yeah there is? My friend has an old windows mobile phone and it has a YouTube app… Oops Mr silly guy
A tablet without Flash?! It’ll never catch on…
It’s a controller.
The point. —->
<—- You.
Got a nice chuckle out of this. Thanks, sir.
Damn. Got me good.
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*cough* Apple products *cough*
Yes. You get me…
Yeah, no ipods/ipads/iphones have flash and millions of people get by happy enough!! And to be honest, if anything uses flash, i use my PC… much more responsive!!
Please name a tablet out there right now that doesnt support html and supports flash
Ipad
It saddens me how few people understand sarcasm…
What’s their excuse for not supporting flash? Seems like a pretty important thing to me.
HTML 5 is the ‘new flash’
Weird thing for someone with a picture of flash to say…
HTML 5, that’s a good move. It will probably be used more in the coming years and so on.
AVATAR! O_O I LOVE THAT SHOW! your picture made my day :)
you watch legend of korra? its not better than avatar, but its just as good.
Yeah Avatar is amazing! Me and my bro watched all the eps on Netflix and yeah I’ve watched the 12 eps of season 1 of the Legend of Korra which is a really great show too (Although I miss the old chars, Toph especially T.T)
Hum, I think I am kinda old-fashioned guy. I really don’t care, since I inderstand consoles are primarily made for household gaming, and not surfing the web.
I wish there could be an option to use the swype typing like you find in the Samsung galaxies, I find it a lot easier then standard input on touch devices, but oh well.
I dont see how flash would make it any better, besides going on newgrounds.
Long as i can check emails, youtube ect, and its a good, fast browser, its fine by me
Apple has pretty much killed flash for touch devices already, Adobe is axing mobile flash support all together, HTML5 works better in a touch environment… Duh.
Eh, this is the kind of stuff I use my laptop for. Never really surfed the web on a game console.
I spent 1200 hours on my wii browser so far.
The wii was able to play youtube videos and the first wii u trailer show a bird video from youtube da faq is this shit
Youtube is in html5 on its mobile site…
Dude youtube destop site works on the wii
Not only mobile, desktop too….
Google: youtube html5
Just wondering, what version does iphone 4s have? Because my siblings iphone 4s’ browser is cool, so is wii u’s even better?
Exactly the same kind of tech really but the iPhone has a much more accelerated browser.
Considering the iPhone doesn’t support flash either lol
Haha i thought gamers here would be fucked up about it not supporting flash, but i see most on here have the same point of view as i do. It’s a game console, so it’s not really meant for surfing the web and watching videos on youtube and etc. Phones and pcs excel in that area. Now an actual concern would be if there was something wrong with Ninten’s network and online wasn’t available to the Wii Universe.
Can it still play Youtube videos??
Yes. We saw it in the trailer LAST YEAR at E3. Also you can watch YouTube videos on iOS, and it doesn’t support flash either.
Thanks. I was going to ask the same thing. Cause I want to do that thing where I take a video I’m watching on the UPad and throw it to the TV like in that E3 trailer.
Google: “youtube html5″……
Flash is bloatware, html5 is future!
Is this better than the iphone 4’s browser?
IPHONE 4S*
Who knows? iOS uses a mobile version of Safari, WiiU will probably run something more like the 3DS browser, more powerful though. But no one has seen it or used it yet so no one knows.
Nintendo is in partnership with Google aka Youtube…. maybe Wii U will use Chrome?
Oh please nintendo gods.
I really don’t mind to be honest, though hearing they are going to use HTML5 in the browser is making me jizz my nerd pants.
Youtube already supports HTML5
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Flash or no Flash, I’m still buying the Wii U. And Redworthy is right… HTML5 is “The New Flash”.
AWESOME!
As HTML5 IS the new flash, I’m glad the Wii U doesn’t support Flash.
I didn’t really use the Internet Browser very much on my Wii (only clocked in 300+ hours), but I do think that the Wii U’s Internet Browser will become my primary one to use now.
Man, all of this news about the Wii U just keeps getting me more anxious for launch! :D
whats the difference between flash ad html5???
I guess i wont get a wii-u for a couple of reasons. 1 – nintendos games arent as awesome as they used to be (all started with the ds.) 2 – My pc can play all third party games, not just a select few third party games like wii-u. 3 – web browser doesent have flash, so it wont be fun browsing the internet on the wii-u. I used to love nintendo, until they started doing all this casual crap. I miss the snes, and gamecube days.
Then why in the fuck are you on the wii u blog u and your PC can go suck a dick! Its all about Nintendo and will always be about Nintendo!
Because he obviously wanted news, like everyone else. And now that he knows more and more about the console, he is no longer interested in it.
Some people are objective and don’t just buy anything with “Nintendo” slapped on it just because.
Its not just a fucking piece of cardboard with nintendo slapped on it you dipshit its a home console with an HD controller that istouchscreen and has a bunch of third party support just incase your retarded.
Im sick of these “HTML5 will replace flash” assholes. Their just like those idiotic onlive supporters saying that stream gaming will replace everything. No, no, no. Someone here has to stop this BS everyone of these idiots are spouting. Flash is still used in a large role of animation and games, so even if HTML5 supports a few video features doesn’t make it superior to flash. Fllash is constantly being updated everyday and by the time “HTML5” shows its full potential, it will be ancient code, as flash will already be polished up, fixing all of its flaws. HTML5 is the new lie everyone uses to be a pain in the ass.
Considering Adobe has stopped supporting it on Android earlier this year, and they’re continuing to ax the support of it, I kind of doubt we’ll be seeing many more “updates” for it.
I’m a web developer and have been for 10+ years. I can say, with experience and education, you’re wrong.
The question is;
Can i watch streamed porn from any site on the gamepad?
Sorry, but what are some examples of flash video content?? And what are some examples of HTML5???? I don’t really know about this stuff really, so please make it pretty simple :)
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HTML5 > Flash anyway. WebKit ftw!
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