Wireless DS game downloads coming
Category: Nintendo DS, Posted: 01/02/2008 at 04:34PM CST by Frank Ling, Editorial Director
Hopefully, we'll be seeing wireless game downloads for the DS via the Wii in the not too distant future, according to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Speaking to the New York Times, Reggie said that the future of the DS would be more tightly connected with its big brother, the Wii.
Downloading DS games would first be done by the Wii and then transferred wirelessly to the DS, which has onboard wireless capability.
Fils-Aime isn't sitting on his laurels and wants to continue to expand the DS Empire. He said, "To aggressively drive DS business we need to provide other forms of entertainment to excite the consumer."
Well known business analyst, Michael Pachter, of Wedbush Morgan isn't so positive of the DS's success and still thinks it's just a kid's toy. "The DS is still a kid's device. There is a lot of mature content available for the PSP that is not available for the DS. Sony's PSP is doing great. The DS is just doing better."
It's a little hard to believe Pachter's view as the DS has solidly proven itself to go beyond being a "kid's device" to a gaming console enjoyed by casual (older) gamers.
In this case, we'd have to say Pachter is definitely missing the mark on this. Since the DS was unveiled in 2004, over 53 million units have been sold worldwide as compared to Sony's PSP with sales of just over 25 million.
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I love the ds, sure the themes are still kid based, but lets see some of these kiddies fly like i do in Star fox, which was FRIGGIN SWEET BTW.
"Sony's PSP is doing great. The DS is just doing better."
Well I can see Pachter's point - There are multiple DS units in homes with multiple kids, since the little brats don't know how to share, and the move from original model to the Lite probably added at least 10 million in repeat customers. However, to imply that the DS doesn't have a sizable adult audience is laughable.
Kids? Sure, it offers more family friendly features, but just because it's appropriate for all ages doesn't necessarily make it a "kid's device". In fact, every time I see a DS, it's in the hands of someone at least in their teens, but I've never seen a PSP anywhere outside of a rich or wigger kid's hands. And I mean under age 11 kids.