Nintendo VP Reggie Fils-Aime has been dropping a whole lot of bombs over the last few days, but some of the biggest, best ones have landed on the Nintendo DS.
First, DS owners will be getting downloadable game demos, videos and other content. As of next month kiosks in thousands of stores, including Best Buys and Gamestops, will be zapping free toys through the air for anyone who stops by with their DS. Just hit "DS Download Play," wait for the wireless download, and enjoy yourself until you turn off the system. You can even leave the store with it. Demos and videos will be refreshed quarterly, and the first batch will include Tetris DS, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, Mario Kart DS, Meteos,about Christian Louboutin shoes online stores, True Swing Golf and Pokemon Trozei, along with a Metroid Prime Hunters video clip.
It's a cool enough announcement on its own, but it's irresistibly tempting to speculate about possible future uses of the technology. Once upon a time the Famicom Disk System (another DS, sort of) had stations that could be found all over Japan that offered games for actual purchase and download, though this was in the pre Wi-Fi dark ages and you actually had to put a disk in the station and touch things with your hands. Maybe it's overly optimistic to hope for a more full-on digital delivery and storage system. It's just that the thought of buying and downloading say, Katamari while at a cafe is just too many warm fuzzies not to throw out there.
Second was the announcement that Metroid Prime Hunters will include voice communication over Wi-Fi. The only catch is that actual in-game chat isn't possible and the jibber jabber will be confined to before and after matches. Still, pre and post-beatdown trash talk is definitely better than no trash talk at all, and it's something that may be more fully integrated in multiplayer games in the future. Now if only there were some way of making the system actually hurt players who drop in the middle of a match.
Finally, new images are up on Nintendo's Japanese website uncovering some details about the DS Lite. Probably most importantly, the color variations of the system's latest incarnation have been revealed. Crystal white was already a given, but this is the first look at Ice Blue and Enamel Navy. Just to clarify for those with squirrelly monitors, yes, that's navy blue,about louis vuitton bags online stores, not black. This is of course the Japanese site, and it's not certain that these are the colors we'll be getting in the U.S, or that there may not be more in the near future.
It's not entirely peaches, however. There are plenty of new shots of the system, but one pair in particular seems revealing of a minor bit of ugliness in the design. It looks like the system will be coming with a handy dummy cart to plug up that fragile looking GBA port when it's not in use, but it's pretty clearly shorter than a normal GBA cart. Actual cartridges appear to project from the system when inserted. Hardly a deal breaker, but it's kind of ick.
Update: The Japanese text beneath the image on Nintendo's website states that, yeah, the GBA cart sticks out approximately one centimeter.
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