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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 ..."
I wouldn't mind choosing a demo to download, but I wouldn't want it pushed to me automatically. Bandwidth isn't free, you know.
Fine, I'll have to get a DS.
....isn't that incest?
"Users would wake up each morning, find the LED lamp on their Wii flashing, and know that Nintendo has banned them and fried their mod chips ... "
The Nintendo president also talked a bit about developers creating original games for the Virtual Console on Wii, much like Xbox Live Arcade. "When creating a packaged game to be priced at 5,000 yen, developers tend to feel the need to create a rich game. Yet it is possible to create a reasonably entertaining game in 2 months with a team of three. Offering such games for 500 yen over a network could lead to a reasonable number of people purchasing it. By offering an environment that allows this, we hope to encourage more developers to pursue basic yet enjoyable gameplay," he said"
hell yeah. Hope it turns out the way he makes it sound.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
"Let's say your Wii is connected to the Internet in a mode that allows activation on a 24-hour basis"
Hey, I like suicidegirls.com as much as the next person, but isn't it a bit excessive for one's wii to be "activated" by the internet for more than 24 hours?!
Oh wait. You were talking about something else entirely. Sorry.
concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
What the kind of ISP do you people have that you're worried about half a dozen computers downloading a few megs of data each night?
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/2006
GameDaily summarized (or copied) what they found most interesting. I find this moreso:
Not only that, but 5.1 can't produce a sound exactly where you are no matter where you are in the room.
Yet another instance of Nintendo anticipating their customer's needs rather than (or in addition to) listening to their gripes. What customer would have said "speaker in the controller!" rather than "more 5.1 support?"
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
How big do you people think DS demos are? And ms doesn't release updates everyday.
you actually pay per byte to download? You need a better ISP.
Try a better country. The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month.
The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month.
Just a question, because I honestly don't know... in countries like those you mentioned, do the ISP's measure 1MB as 1,000,000 bytes?
When I had cable for a while, there was a 'feature' where the cable company could send my cable box little ads in a kind of faux-email. It was just annoying. They came so fast that the damn little light was always on. I don't need more LEDs shining in my apartment, and I don't need a kind of answering machine that is guaranteed to only get crap I don't care about.
I would have had to logged on daily to have cleaned out all the garbage. And let's face it, you don't want screenshots, demos or movies of every game that is coming out for a system. I don't care how much you play, there are dozens of games that you just aren't interested in. Fake-email-video-game-ads are not a good idea, especially to your console where the interface is often kludgy or slow.
This is the one thing I'm not all jazzed up about regarding the Wii. I'm a big supporter of what they are trying to do in general (see my /. history), but this 24/7 thing just makes me wince a bit.
There is just no need. Whatever little present in Animal Crossing, or whatever little "neato" thing they are going to download is going to only take a few seconds at most; could probably be done while the thing is booting up and we wouldn't even notice.
My Wii won't be connected 24/7, because I refuse to leave my Internet on that much. I flip the switch on the cable modem at night to cut it off, and turn it on in the AM. There is just no reason for it to run 24/7 if no one is using it, IMO, so I don't even take the chance.
My Wii won't even use wi-fi if I can avoid it. Ninty hasn't said anything for awhile about it, but at one point did say an optional accessory would allow you to add it to a wired network. I know wireless is all the rage among certain people, but why do wireless when I already have ethernet cable available in every room? Wired is better than wireless if you have access to it (and mine is wired just like most ppl's cable is, in sockets). Wireless just opens up a whole new can of security worries. If all fails, I do have the Nintendo USB wifi connector, but I hope I don't have to use it just to use my Wii.
AE
Sounds like you might wanna upgrade from that 28.8k modem...
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
Wii spam.
At first it may just be Nintendo spam. But they may open it up to let 3rd party game publishers send spam of their own. And how long do you think it will be before someone figures ot how to upload data to the Wii from anywhere?
There's a physical button right there on the box that tells it not to download things while you're not using it.
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
I think letting us download demos for the DS is a great idea... Bring on the flashing led, I'll try anything over my morning cup of coffee.
Local mirrors can be free - but that's beside the point. If I want to keep the line clear (for gaming or VoIP or just because), then I'd rather not be forced to unplug the Wii every time because it thinks it knows better than I do.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Nintendo have already boasted that the Wii will continue to download stuff even when you turn it off. You'd have to physically pull the plug (power or network).
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
TFA says that these are monthly promotional demos. We aren't talking about daily spam here. It's similar to a gaming magazine except you don't have to pay for it. Game mag you pay $7, Wii monthly promotion you use some bandwidth. Game mag says upcoming high profile game is editors choice, Wii says try this demo and see what you think. I'm looking forward to this feature.
Turning off your cablemodem because you're not using it? This is a first...
What else do you do? Do you unplug your DVD player and TV at night instead of leaving them in standby?
You crazy loon, you!
Ever thought that "goth" is a uniform in the same way corporate khakis are?
You're not unique if you look like your friends, even if you annoy grandmothers
Try a better country. The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month.
I don't know what the situation is in NZ, but that's definitely not the situation in Australia any more. Maybe three years ago. There's plenty of choice now, and I'm not even sure if any ISP still charges you for going over the limit.
We still don't have true unlimited plans, but I'm on a 1.5mb plan for $70 AUD a month and I can download 60 gig before I get slowed down. I could drop that down to $50 if I were willing to drop to 21 gig a month. I'm really not worried about the Wii eating up all my bandwidth, and I can't believe anyone I know will be.
As with everywhere, bad plans do exist. Plans with high prices and low features. However, the people who are signed up to them have only got themselves to blame. If you buy a car from the first car yard you go into, you deserve to get screwed. Same with pretty much everything else. It's not like there's only one ISP in town, and it's not like the resources don't exist to browse almost every plan in Australia in one place.
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
I have a feeling, Mr. Anonymous Coward, that you and he are one and the same...
./ trolls, I'm guessing...otherwise, the level of myopic viewpoints has just exploded. There is absolutely no reason to leave it on, so I don't. Period.
It's laughable that people call me names because I put my cable modem in standby when I'm shutting down for the night.
Just typical
Asking me if I unplug my TV and DVD player is ridiculous...about as much so as me asking "Do you leave your car headlights on all night?" If you guys aren't intelligent enough to see the difference, then you are beyond help.
I'm amazed at the responses here...absolutely amazed.
AE
... I have a feeling, Mr. Anonymous Coward, that you and he are one and the same ...
... Asking me if I unplug my TV and DVD player is ridiculous...about as much so as me asking "Do you leave your car headlights on all night?" If you guys aren't intelligent enough to see the difference, then you are beyond help. ...
You're tripping buddy. Take off the tinfoil.
I really think that you seem to lack faith in the technology you use. If your firewall is active and properly configured, you're not giving yourself "extra" protection by shutting it of when you're away from your computer. You come across as having a smug sense of satisfaction that you're "better" than the average online person.
I don't agree with your logical outcome to your argument. Obviously leaving your car headlights on is a stupid analogy for leaving your cable modem on. Now the jump you made from that example to the conclusion that the people questioning you are "beyond help" is where connecting your analogy and conclusion really shows your character.
Piss off.
Shh.
You noncomformists are all alike!
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
You made my point exactly - yes, asking if you leave your car headlights on WAS a stupid analogy to compare to putting my cable modem in standby. Just as asking me if I unplug my TV and DVD player are, which is why I made the comparison - unplugging a TV is has about as much to do with putting my cable modem in standby as does leaving your car headlights on; i.e., nothing alike at all and why I said (as you quoted) that it was about as relevant as me asking it.
I don't lack faith in anything, I just know "absolute" from "pretty reliable". It's so simple : firewalls are NOT 100% effective, even if properly configured. Flipping a switch and putting my cable modem in stand-by is 100%, absolute. No question. I see no reason to leave the device on 24 hours a day. Since it takes 1/2 a second to press the button, I think it's worth it. You don't. What I don't see is why the hell people felt the need to jump on me for it.
The reason my attitude is that the people arguing with me are beyond help is because I can't believe the shit people have tried to give me for flipping a fucking switch. A switch that the manufacturer put there for a reason. It's right on top, easy to reach, and says "standby". So yes, I do think I'm better than some asshole tech-know-it-alls who insult me for saying I use the standby button the manufacturer gave me because I know for a fact that firewalls (especially software firewalls, which most home users use) are never 100% reliable and I simply don't see the need to leave an electronic device on when I'm not going to be using it for at least 8 hours while I'm asleep.
So piss off right back at you, and I'll raise you a fuck you. I simply shared that I wasn't going to leave my Wii online 24/7, and why - there was no reason for people to start insulting me for it. Why the hell you or anyone who replied care what I do with my cable modem I'll never know; probably as much as a mystery as to why I bothered replying to blinded-by-believing-their-own-BS-smacktards who replied to insult me for something so innocuous.
AE
First paragraph: wtf?
Second paragraph: there is some small statistical amount of protection coming from turning your cable modem off at night but that still won't protect you when you go on the Internet the next day. Especially if you use a common browser.
Third paragraph: you're being ridiculed because what your doing is futile.
Fourth paragraph:
ttfn.
Shh.
No, it's not futile, but arging with idiots like you is.
Any rational person can understand the concept of "almost 100%" and "100%", and it seems you do not fit into that category.
AE
BTW, can you point out where I said putting the modem in standby had anything to do with using the internet the next day, or that I used a "common" browser? That's what the firewall is for, you can't have 100% when you are accessing the internet. But you CAN when you aren't.
You have a real problem with comprehension, don't you? You are making up points I never made.
AE
Sticks and stones may break my bones but you're still the idiot.
At a point in time 100% and almost 100% are different but as you apparently do use the Internet across time the difference disappears. If the zero-day exploit doesn't get you right away it will when you eventually wake up your cable modem.
8^p
Shh.
Bit defensive? poke ... Poke, poke!
poke
I'm a nice guy so I'll just leave it at that...
Poke! Dammit that last one just slipped through....
Shh.
What is defensive about pointing out the fact that you assigned arguments to me that I never made?
Can you answer the question? When did I ever say putting my modem in standby had anything to do with securing the internet when I am online "the next day" as you put it? When did I say anything about using a "common browser"? Or anything about a "zero-day" anything?
Answer is : you can't, because I didn't. And now you are posturing to cover that up. When you make irrelevant comments and don't reply to the actual content but instead make what you think are witty comments (but actually come across as desperate), it really shows what little you have to stand on.
I never said it protected me from those things; you made that up, or, more likely, you read some of the replies that other smacktards like yourself made and never actually read my original post.
Besides, you admit I am right. It's an "almost always" versus "absolute". You don't think absolute means anything more, and I'm not arguing that it makes me exponentially safer, simply that it leaves ZERO chance. I like that, it makes me feel better. And yes, you are an idiot for arguing with me otherwise. I never told you that you should do it, nor do I give a shit if you do. Why do you care what I do, except to get your flamer rocks off, even if it's "futile" for me to do so, as you say?
Happy trolling.
AE
...What's the point of a firewall? To lock a doorway. But if you are worried about locking it up, why not just close it off absolutely if it's possible? Often times I leave my PC on all night to crunch video or other CPU-intensive things, and there simply is no reason for my machine to access the internet while it's doing so....
You did seem to imply security as the reason for putting your modem into standby.
Shh.
It *IS*.
Can you make a relevant comment?
When I am not using the Internet, it is safer to have it off. I often leave my PC unattended doing non-internet activities for long periods of time, and instead of relying simply on a software firewall I take 1/2 second and press the standby button the manufacturer put on the device. Why the fuck is this so offensive to you?
You said that I felt it made me safer when I was using the internet "the next day", and brought up things about common browsers and zero-day exploits that I never said it protected me from. Again, that's why I use a firewall, and I don't use a "common" browser. You seem to have invented this argument that I never made that somehow this was the be-all-end-all answer; it's not, just a tiny step that I do that was one sentence fragment in my original reply that you and a couple of other trolls decided mortally offended you enough to start bashing me.
Why can you just not accept the fact that, as I said, it makes me feel better to have that 100% assurance that nothing errant can happen when my computer is unattended and there is no need for the Internet to be active? Would it improve your life if I left it on? If you can convince me that is true, I'll do it just for you - out of pitty, because I can't imagine why something like this meant so much to you that days after I posted you felt the need to jump in and start insulting me because I take a precaution that costs nothing to do.
AE
Ever played Animal Crossing? Nintendo sends you little presents now and then, but only if you actually turn that option on (go to your room and use the telephone to "call" Nintendo and they'll ask you whether you want stuff like that).
Do you seriously think that this is not going to be an optional feature in the Wii?