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Nintendo Allows Japanese DS Gamers Taste of Wireless

Posted by Zonk on from the get-mario-out-of-that-kiosk dept.

Gamespot has the word that Nintendo will be allowing Japanese gamers a full taste of the DS' wireless capabilities. DS owners will be able to download content at kiosks in selected stores across Japan. From the article: "[Downlaoded] demos will remain on the DS units 'until power is turned off.' The one exception is some additional music for Jam with the Band. 'After turning off power, the [Jam with the Band] data remains,'"

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  1. Interesting Implications by joepez · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This really points toward some interesting applications of wireless in gaming. With the DS's abilities you could add wireless to games. A hide-n-seek game which requires you to travel around a city and find "virtual" objects and DL them? I'm surprised there haven't been any games announced yet that will leverage teh idea of downloading content as updates, or as part of the gameplay. Depending upon how well this works this could be the DS's real differnation between it and a PSP (though the PSP does have wireless, so they might be able to do something similar).

  2. I think i see where this is going... by DuckofDeath87 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It seems that Nintendo wants thier gamers to go out and play games, opposed to sit in their house and play games. I guess they want to make gaming a real socail event. This could be the reason they seem to hate online gaming. They want face to face gaming. Though, this could hurt the DS in smaller, less populated areas, but this could lead to very interesting events in malls and other places with similar machines. They could have say, a DS hub in video game stores, so you can play with a lot of people. These hubs could say, keep up with your stats and the like. DS tournies, playing game that are distroed though this hub. Regardless, I hope we either get these in the states, or rig emulators that let us use wireless networks.