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Nintendo DS Sees Voice-Chat, Demo Stations

Posted by Zonk on from the ds-gets-whole-new-bag dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales and marketing, Metroid Prime will include the ability to voice chat with other players before and after games (not during). Granted, the PSP's version of SOCOM allows for in-game chat, but this certainly is the first step." They're also going to be setting up demo download stations in retail stores, as reported in a DS Fanboy post. More details also available at the Game|Life Blog.

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  1. Re:Why not IN-GAME? by Iscariot_ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For bandwidth and processing reasons. I'm sure they'll be using a good % of the power of the DS for the game which leaves little or none left over to do voice in game. There's also bandwidth to be concerned about as I believe the DS is only capable of 2Mbps not 11 Mbps.

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