The Wii is by far the most popular of the next-gen consoles with its ability to transcend age. Anyone can have fun playing the Wii, spanning from kids in grade school all the way to 85 year old grandmothers. But with all its functionality it’s been missing one thing–the ablility to stream content to it from the Mac.

Enter ‘Wii Transfer’ from Riverfold Software. Wii Transfer includes a built-in lightweight web server for sharing your movies, music, and photos to your Nintendo Wii over your local network. Besides streaming content to your Wii, you can also transfer your Miis back to your Mac as a picture, as well as backup your saved games via an SD card. Photo sharing is accomplished using your existing iPhoto albums which is great for seeing your pics on your big screen television in the living room.

The movie streaming is solid, however, the encoding takes a while to process. They’re converted into FLVs (Flash Video) and then streamed through the Internet Channel (which you’ll have to purchase, but what’s $5.99 these days anyway?).

You can download the free trial here: http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/

If you dig it you can buy a license for only $19.99.

Bottom Line: The Wii isn’t exactly made to be a media server when compared to the likes of the PS3 and the Xbox 360, but it gets the job done, and what it does, it does well.