Nintendo has finally come to their senses.  They recently unlocked the Wii Internet channel to enable free web browsing for anyone with a Wii hooked up to their broadband connection.   With the Internet Channel, everyone in your family can browse the Internet with ease. A simple point of the Wii Remote™ controller brings email, news, and online video right to your living room. Plus-sized navigation buttons, and a handy zoom feature makes viewing websites a breeze—without even leaving your couch.

If you’ve already shelled out 500 Wii points for the Internet Channel, Nintendo is offering a make-good in the form of a free game download, but you’ll have to wait until October to collect. Nintendo says in a press release: “Starting at the end of October, consumers who have previously exchanged 500 Wii Points to download the Internet Channel will be able to download, at no cost, one NES game of their choice valued at 500 Wii Points from Virtual Console.”

If you have been follwoing the Wii at all then you know that this channel as well as many other cool apps for the Wii have been available on the underground Homebrew Channel.  Learn more about the Homebrew Channel here.