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Now that the Wii News channel is up and running (powered by Associated Press) and the Wii Internet channel (powered by Opera) is running in a beta format until (reportedly) next month, we have to wonder what’s next for Wii channels. Nintendo’s said there are more coming in the future, and the obvious first choice would be a Wii Music channel. And who would be better to be behind it than Apple Computer? Their ubiquitous iPod portable music player and powerful and user-friendly iTunes software have conquered the industry, so there’s no other obvious choice for this service.

Right now, here’s how you play an MP3 on the Wii. You put in on an SD card, plug the SD card into the Wii, create a picture slideshow in the Wii Photo channel, and set that MP3 as the soundtrack. Or, if your game supports it (Excite Truck does), you can go into the options menu in-game and select MP3s to play during the game.

We’d need a version of iTunes to run on Wii. A simplified version, without the disc burning functionality and some of the more intensive features like the album image flip-file view, perhaps. It would likely access the iTunes store, which is where Apple would benefit from the whole thing.

One would need a lot of storage if they planned to make the Wii their music machine. I could see setting up my Wii with some of my music and managing it in a simplified iTunes interface for use in-game. I have my computer right next to my TV, so it’s easier for me to listen to my music library through iTunes on my computer, but if it were in a different room, I could see doing it the Wii Channels way. Anyone else like this idea, or have a specific problem with the concept?