Turning on your Wii today will earn you a loving message from Nintendo, telling you that you’ll be wanting to go to your Wii’s option screen to go perform a system update.
Version 3.0 of the new firmware includes the following changes:
- Digital clock added to the Wii Menu.
- Forecast Channel now displays the current condition (cloudy, raining) directly in the Wii Menu.
- News Channel can now show two scrolling headlines at a time in the Wii Menu.
- Message Board now has the “Today’s Accomplishments” message.
- Address Book entries can now be shifted around using A+B but only to empty spaces.
- Calendar in Message Board no longer shows “Today’s Accomplishments”.
- Scrolling messages in the Message Board now uses a different sound.
Downloading the update will also renovate the Wii Shop Channel, giving it the following paint-job licks:
- New welcome screen detailing four recommended titles and the points they cost.
- “Titles You’ve Downloaded” moved to the main shop menu.
- Popular Titles.
- Search for a title.
- Search by Category.
- System shows the different systems and how many titles have been released under each.
- Publisher showing different publishers and amount of titles released.
- Genre.
