Warp Pipe Group May Bring Online Gaming to DS

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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added "social element" to online gaming, eh?

[RLiegh]

Can we say SHITCOCK?!?!!

Wait one second...

[Anonymous Coward]

One second, wasn't warp pipe a small team of like 3 people that developed a little tunneling app to get Gamecube online? This is the whole team responsible for Nintendo's future online plans?

Well then, looks like Nintendo's finally decided on a competitive online plan, one that will most surely rival the best offerings of Microsoft and Sony... hats off to them.

Re:Wait one second...

[kid-noodle]

So hang on, Nintendo are taking note of the interesting work done by the community, and instead of just copying that work, actually hiring the people who did it.. and this is bad?

Also not a first - they did the same with the backlight technology for the SP.

finally!

[to_kallon]

What's more, the project is supposed to add a "social aspect" to online gaming
finally a way for me to play games and satisfy my social needs at the same time! i see no real reason for me to ever leave my room again. thankyou nintendo!

Duh

[Mr Guy]

If they've chosen not to have social lives by now, why would they want to start one in a video game

Because their guild demands it.

Slashdotted

[CrazyJim1]

They bring it online, we take it offline.

God spoke to me:
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Re:Sony has nothing to worry about

[j0nb0y]

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.