For the Wii Shopping Channel, which you can use to buy Virtual Console and WiiWare software, we will add a gift-giving function. This is a function to purchase Virtual Console or WiiWare software and present it to your Wii Friend. Seeing is believing, so take a look. First of all, in the Shopping Channel, choose the title of the present you want to send to your friend. Here, we are using the function to select a game by its name. I’m fast-forwarding this process, but you can also write a message and send it to the recipient. So, we choose the present here, and choose the recipient. I will send it to Shigeru-san. You know, Pinball is the software I used to work on a long time ago. As the result, your Wii message is sent to your friend’s Wii through WiiConnect 24, and the recipient’s Wii hardware illuminates a blue light to indicate the arrival of the message. Utilizing this “present capability”, the recipient will receive this kind of special enveloped message. For the recipient to actually receive the present, he or she will choose the “initiate” icon to activate the Wii Shopping Channel. The recipient can also decline to download the present. If the recipient chooses to download the present, the download will start. And the recipient can also send back a thank-you note. This shows that a sender has received a thank-you message from the recipient. He or she is reading the message like this. In addition to the Virtual Console service, we will start offering a new way to buy new software via WiiWare. Because of this, it will be imperative that we provide customers with the ability to recommend software and send present to each other. We are also hopeful that this is going to be another incentive for Wii owners to want to connect their Wii with the Internet. We are planning to make this new Shopping Channel with its gift-giving function, available in December, in time for Christmas.
