For almost 5 years, Nintendo has used the Opera 9 browser in their Nintendo Wii and for about 3 years on the Nintendo DSi. Opera made these browsers to utilize the motion controls of the Wii and the touch screen of the Nintendo DSi.
After this long relationship, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports that Nintendo will cut the ties and is welcoming in Netfront as their new browser for the Nintendo 3DS. Netfront is the browser that the PSP and the PS3 use and the latest version of it will be HTML5 and Flash compatible. The browser will be available via WiFi in May.
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I’m curious to see how the 3DS handles the Netfront browser. I’ve had the Opera 9 browser on my Wii since 2006 and it received very little use. It incredibly slow and not having a keyboard to connect to the Wii made typing out websites or searches frustrating.
Bad decision on Nintendo’s part.
Why do you say that?
He’s probably saying that because NetFront is a considerably worse browser than Opera. The comments here are quite fair to NetFront compared to how low quality it actually is, for example:
http://www.aussie-nintendo.com/news/25453/
NetFront is a cheap and dirty browser for companies that don’t want to spend money on a decent browsing experience.
Sony even admitted that the PS3 browser was quite crappy after they announced that it would be NetFront.
It makes sense, though. Nintendo will save money, and since they never really did much with the Wii and DS browsers anyway most people won’t care.
Wow, had no idea that NetFront was crap. I’m content with Firefox myself, while the husband is trying to convert me to Chrome, which is why I have blinders on when it comes to browsers I suppose.