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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. If I were at Sony... by goMac2500 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd be quaking in my boots about now... Seriously, the opinion has really shifted. At first everyone thought the PSP would smackdown the DS. But Nintendo bit by bit is slowly showing us that there is far more to the DS than meets the eye. While Sony seems to have shown all their cards for the PSP, it looks like Nintendo has a whole lot up their sleeve.

    1. Re:If I were at Sony... by StevenHenderson · · Score: 3, Interesting
      For me, rather, it looks like it's pathetic writhe of Nintendo to team up with some shady tool developers, if this story is not a daydream of fanboys

      Keep in mind that Nintendo knows what they are doing. There was a time when people thought "Who the F*CK is Retro Studios?" Then, WHAM, all of a sudden Metroid Prime comes out and everyone praises the decision by Nintendo to partner with them. If the WP devs have caught the eye of the big N then they are surely capable (and likely cheap enough to be a smart business decision).

  2. Re:Wait one second... by mahdi13 · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

    I think Nintindo is making a good call by going with these guys, if they can make hardware go online this was never suppose to, imagine what they can do with hardware this is designed to go online

    --
    "Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
  3. Free Publicity, Bad Article. by Dryth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article is good publicity for Warp Pipe. Which, as it clearly identifies, is now a business.

    However, the article basically takes some random actions on the part of the Warp Pipe team (i.e. posting images with a DS badly photoshopped into them), combines them with some random allusions and common assumptions (i.e. Marionette, online play), and then pulls a patent applying to the Gameboy Color out of nowhere.

    Out of that we get:
    1. Warp Pipe is now a business.
    2. A bunch of people know big things but aren't telling us, and won't even confirm that they know big things that they won't tell us.
    3. GBC Patent.
    4. This somehow correlates into the DS being online.

    So what do we get? Questionable rumors and what's probably hype over Warp Pipe's next project. I mean, is anyone else getting anything out of this beyond Warp Pipe publicity?

    Nothing against Warp Pipe, mind you, as they've done great things on the Gamecube. I find myself wondering if they're just using all this mysterious BS to simply hedge their bets (and bets that are theirs alone) should the DS not fit into their online schemes.

  4. Dip shit... by gmezero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While that may be true for most X-Box gamers, most middle/high school kids don't live in a dark closet.

    My kids for instance, are very social with their gaming. My children and their friends have set up group gaming battles in Pokemon Stadium where everyone brings over their carts and plays against each others characters. They arrange trades, etc...

    One of my children bugged me constantly to try and convince me to let him take his Animal Crossing memory card to school so that he can take turns trading towns with a friend so they can visit each other's towns to trade fruit, etc... So on, and so forth...

    I for one am very excited about the added social dynamics to be introduced here. Any thing that get's kids out and engaged with their peers has a lot of positive potential.