Nintendo have revealed a new Wii Channel for ordering food via the Wii in Japan.

"The Food Delivery Channel" will cater for all tastes and will include, Pizza, Chinese, "Western", Sushi, Curry etc, from the Damae-Can range.

Starting in spring 2009, gamers will be able to use the service to order specific menu items, or even roll a roulette wheel to select a meal completely at random (!?). Orders will arrive in around 30 minutes as you would expect from any food delivery service.


Would you like to see this in the west also?, if so what companies would you like to see involved and what foods?

Is the "Beer Channel" next?.

The Wii gets less interesting every day!

Hmm, this reminds me of the implementation of the /pizza command into EQ2.

Really, these days things are aimed at making us less and less active. I guess its nice they have all that stuff  in one place, but likely in the west it'll just link up to stores you can call normally.

I don't really see this being very useful for the West. I think it would take less time to just call and order the take out.

"I don't really see this being very useful for the West. I think it would take less time to just call and order the take out."

It's kind of cool in a nerdy way, but I don't live in an area in the west that could really implement it.

Out of all of the more "stupid and useless" chnnels that Japan gets for their Wii... I would actually use this one. I don't like calling food places to get stuff delievered because they screw up my order half of the time, when I do it online everything turns out fine.

"I don't really see this being very useful for the West. I think it would take less time to just call and order the take out."

Sounds good if they made sure the service was as reliable as a regular phone call -- I imagine they'll also need some way to check up on false orders though, and if they use a phone call for that then it kind of defeats the whole point. Aren't there already places that let you order online, at least in some countries? How do those work out?

In any case, I'm not seeing how it can have any effect, positive or negative, to someone's interest for the Wii. Are PCs less interesting only because of the number of shitty websites the internet has accumulated over the years, as well as random applications people think of making? Does it also apply to the PS3 and any device with internet access and some form of browsing or built-in online functions you aren't likely to use? Did the 360's library become instantly crappier with the release of all the useless NXE features? Or what? People are just grasping at straws so badly to trash the Wii, guess what, you guys aren't even remotely funny, enetertaining, or even smart.

This is a MUST HAVE in America.

That's a little badass, but I'd never use it.

Another reason to think that in 2010 the wii will cause the modern video game crash.

Wow. They've thought of everything

LOL this seems like an awesome way to prank sushi shops.

That's amazing! I love Sushi, and having it ordered to me through my Wii is just epic.

"Another reason to think that in 2010 the wii will cause the modern video game crash."

What other sorts of things will the Wii be able to order in the future?  Hookers?  Three pounds of Columbian bam-bam?  The possibilities are limitless.

You know what's funny? People criticise the wii for all these non-gaming channels, when companies like Sony and Microsoft are letting you download music and movies onto your PS3s or 360s, and these, apparently, are non-gaming features.

"Sounds good if they made sure the service was as reliable as a regular phone call -- I imagine they'll also need some way to check up on false orders though, and if they use a phone call for that then it kind of defeats the whole point. Aren't there already places that let you order online, at least in some countries? How do those work out?"

I always order Pizza online, it's really great, and fast. If there was a similar service for the Wii, I'd be very happy about it.

Now all they need is a porno channel, and you will never need anything else.

Why does Japan get all the cool Wii/DS stuff? In Japan, you can use the Wii for TV guides, you can use the DS as a tour guide in museums, for stats at the baseball game, all kinds of cool connectivity. I guess it just wouldn't work so well here in the US.