Regardless of the fact that revenues are still puny, YouTube is still one of Web 2.0's larger success stories. However, as VentureBeat's MG Siegler notes, in order to be fully mainstream, the Google
video service needs to find its way into the living room. Apple TV has been one avenue, and now, the Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii will provide another. On Thursday, Google launched a new beta version
of the service for both video game consoles, available at youtube.com/tv. There's a special interface for interacting with the service it's not the same as using a computer with a mouse and
keyboard.
As Siegler points out, navigating the YouTube for Television site should be particularly interesting using Nintendo's Wiimote. He says that using YouTube on his television right
now through Apple TV is kind of cumbersome because of the service's simplistic remote. Nintendo's more innovate Wiimote should make it easier.
YouTube for Television works through the
console's Web browsers, which Siegler says is probably why the service isn't launching on the Xbox 360, because that system doesn't have a Web browser. Of course, another reason might be that the Xbox
360 is made by rival Microsoft.
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