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Warp Pipe Group May Bring Online Gaming to DS

Posted by Zonk on from the aetheric-plumbers-get-to-work dept.

dolphin558 writes "Warp Pipe may be in partnership with Nintendo to bring online gaming to the Nintendo DS! What's more, the project is supposed to add a "social aspect" to online gaming that hasn't been seen before. A press conference is scheduled for October 7th. I cannot wait!" This would seem to partially confirm earlier speculations, and partially explain Warp Pipe's decision earlier this year.

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  1. Social aspect that's never been seen? by MyDixieWrecked · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's been a online gaming services with a social aspect. The only way this would make sense is if they meant "Never been seen in online console gaming"

    Sheesh, I remember The Sierra Network (then ImaginNation) which had chatrooms that you could invite people to play card games, checkers, chess, then later, red baron, boogers, and other more graphical games. There was even a dungeons and dragons-type world to play in and trade items, like everquest. ;)

    Man, I remember when I first got that service, I only had a 2400bps modem and couldn't play red baron since it required a 9600, but my dad got a 14.4, and man, that was SWEET.

    That service was my first contact with online-ness... chat, gaming and email. and that was in like 1990 or so.

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  2. Other unofficial project under way by Jonny_eh · · Score: 2, Informative

    The folks over at http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ are gonna attempt to create an online tunnel similar to their xbox/PS2 tunnels. It'll be interesting to see how the system compares to the one stated in the article. I'm assuming the Xlink system will be free (since it is for the xbox and PS2).

  3. Re:Sony has nothing to worry about by j0nb0y · · Score: 5, Informative

    They came out dead last in the next gen console wars

    If by dead last, you mean outselling the xbox, then yeah, you're right. But I believe most people reserver the term "dead last" to mean "sold the least consoles of any major game console," in which case, the xbox is in dead last. Worldwide, more gamecubes have been sold than xboxes. And keep in mind that the gamecube has been very profitable for Nintendo. They don't need to be in first place to keep making consoles and games.

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  4. Re:Sony has nothing to worry about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Actually, SEGA came dead last in the next gen console wars...

  5. Re:Wait one second... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ummm, no. There is a modem accessory available for the Gamecube.

  6. Re:Wait one second... by AltaMannen · · Score: 2, Informative

    "They developed a way to get the GameCube online...something the device was never meant to do."

    So the correct title for the game that came to mind when I read that sentence should be "Phantasy Star OFFline" then?