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Nintendo President Talks Wii/DS Hookup
GameDaily has a look at comments by Nintendo's President Iwata about connectivity between the DS and the Wii. He also touches on the Virtual Console, and Nintendo's place in the marketplace. From the article: "Let's say your Wii is connected to the Internet in a mode that allows activation on a 24-hour basis. This would allow Nintendo to send monthly promotional demos for the DS, during the night, to the Wii consoles in each household. Users would wake up each morning, find the LED lamp on their Wii flashing, and know that Nintendo has sent them something ..."
Nah, I have cousins in the south. Down there they call it "integration"
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3 XP PCs running Microsoft Update at 3am in a desperate attempt to keep up with Microsoft's bugs.
A couple of Vista PCs, running at likely the same time, no doubt impossible to stop downloading updates because Microsoft has decided it's safer.
Nintendo Wii running its nightly pushes.
Potential similar systems for XBox360s and PS3s.
On a good night, that lot'll jam my connection until early the next evening. Setting systems to automatically go and get updates in the middle of the night is a great idea when you're the only system doing it. As everyone starts doing it, people with multiple systems will start seeing their bandwidth cap out as a half dozen half-hour-to-an-hour downloads all try running in parallel.
And there are no doubt a bunch of wannabe NetFlixes starting up who all think it'll be a great idea to push your next round of movies during the night too.
And then there's the joy of cable etc. where a bunch of people are all sharing the same basic pipe with bandwidth quotes given assuming hardly anyone else is using it at the given instant. Imagine when every PC in the neighborhood goes, "Woo, 3am!" on a major patch day, and suddenly half a dozen machines in every household decides to hammer the pipe at the same instant. With everyone dropping their alleged 8mbps connections down to 0.5mbps as everyone maxes out their stream, how much worse is it going to get?
God forbid you also use IP Telephony and want to make a phonecall before everything's finished in the morning.
I like Nintendo but this sounds like "Nintendo penis enlargers". Or how about a penis like a flame torch? Or a hammer? Or a tongue like Joshi?
The list is endless.
OTOH, knowing Nintendo the adds will probably be non-intrusive.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)