Japanese Wii owners woke this morning to find their console’s disk slot flashing blue. The reason? There’s a brand new channel which allows you to upload any photographs on an SD card, turn them into notebooks, business cards or photo albums and get them all printed out by FujiFilm.

I had a quick play around with the channel earlier on, and it seems you can even create a set of business cards with your Mii on. It’s all relatively straightforward (if you live in Japan, that is) to set up, and very reasonably priced - prints of your shots are 30 yen each, with a Wii photobook a mere 1575 yen.

Here’s hoping it comes to the west, though US Wii owners shouldn’t get too excited if they see a blue light too - that’s merely an update for the Photo Channel which, according to Nintendo, provides behind-the-scenes support for the Japanese-only service. Way to rub it in, Nintendo.

No suggestions that this might be coming to the US and/or Europe, but I’ll let you know if I hear any different.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm by Chris Schilling
Hardware, Wii Channels, Wii updates.