US Nintendo DS owners will soon be able to download DS games through their Wii, Nintendo US boss Reggie Fils-Amie has told the New York Times.
The service will offer both complete games and demos, which will be directly downloaded to Wii via broadband, then wirelessly transmitted to DS.
Additional content for newer titles will also be a possibility, with new puzzles already confirmed for the upcoming Professor Layton.
Nintendo looks to be widening the range of services it provides as its user base also grows. At a baseball game last year in Seattle, fans could watch the game, order food and view statistics, all using their handheld console.
Whether this is just whimsical experimenting on the part of Nintendo's research team is a matter for debate, but it sounds interesting to us.
Currently there is no confirmation that the service will arrive in the UK, but given there's little reason for it not to, we speculatively expect to hear more later this year.
Are these full games just downloaded to the DS flash memory, and lost once you turn it off then? The DS only has something like 4mb of it! Unless it's actually streamed from the Wii?
Or maybe Nintendo are going to be smart and release some sort of official flash memory card for the GBA slot.
Are these full games just downloaded to the DS flash memory, and lost once you turn it off then? The DS only has something like 4mb of it! Unless it's actually streamed from the Wii?
Or maybe Nintendo are going to be smart and release some sort of official flash memory card for the GBA slot.
Or they could simply allow us to use standard SD cards for downloaded games. As far as addons for games, I'm assuming the games with come on SD cards that are at least partially writable.
having seen this in action its quite cool, although i dont really understand japanese - my phrase book isnt really that geared to using to translating games - but the download are the same as in a store they disappear when you turn off the ds
Apparently the new york times got it wrong and got wiiware and ds downloads mixed up. You wont be able to download full games for the DS unfortunately.
I heard Nintendo were releasing some kind of memory card for the DS to save demos and stuff on.
The new service sounds good, but it'll probably reach the UK in 2010.
All the latest wii channels have launched silently in the UK and Ireland, with the US having been told on the same day. I don't think NOE are as hype-driving as NOA.
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