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Nintendo iQue Set To Go Online
An anonymous reader writes "The Nintendo iQue looks set to go online. The china-market console is based on N64 architecture and the long awaited iQue USB upgrade cable should be available in 2 weeks. The cable will allow users to download new games , enable online play of N64 ported titles , update the console via the internet and it will allow communication with other iQue owners. This move could signal Nintendo's online gaming ambitions for the DS handheld and their next generation home entertainment console."
The thing is, the controller IS the repackaged N64, accounting for its size. And yes, it uses a Flash card (custom) as its medium. There really isn't a reason to give them a N64 cartridge backwards compatible slot since the Chinese market shouldn't have had direct access to them in the first place and the new games are all Chinese-language localized whereas the old ones would be in Japanese, English, etc. The nice thing about this new service is that it keeps track of which games you have purchased, so when your Flash card becomes full, you don't have to worry about deleting your games to free space because you can just download them again without repaying.