DS Question

[Trip]

Hello:

I recall looking at a PSP several months back and considering it due to its wireless functions and internet browsing capabilities. Archaic then informed me that those functions would be coming available on the DS in time. With the DS at half the price of the PSP, and with the touch screen likely being much easier to use, the time is coming for me to consider getting a DS. However, I do not want to buy one yet unless there is a web-browsing capability.

Has such a feature been released, or even announced? DS Linux isn't far enough yet to replicate those functions, so I'd like to know if there's any official statement on the matter.

Thank you.

- Trip

 

[Archaic]

Wait until the worldwide rollout of Nintendo WiFi Connection within the next few months for further details.

 

[Misty]

It's not available yet, I know that much. I know it's available on the PSP right now.

As for when it will be available on the DS, first off, I expect it to be a third-party application - Nintendo's mantra of "games, games, games" wouldn't fit with them making a web browser. Second, yeah, the DS actually needs to go online first.

 

[Dogasu]

Mario Kart DS is supposed to support Wi-Fi Inernet. So is Metroid Prime: Hunters. The question is whether or not Nintendo will have the Internet hookup ready by the time these games are released.

 

[Trip]

Why wouldn't they do something so obvious as a web browser? It supports 802.11b, does it not (that's my home network)?

Well, if they won't do a straight web browser, then heck with it, I'll do without a DS until DSLinux advances to where they have a functioning driver for the wireless function and use Lynx or something.

- Trip

 

[Zeta]

Why wouldn't they do something so obvious as a web browser? It supports 802.11b, does it not (that's my home network)?

Because they have the funny idea that a video game system should primarily be used for, you know, videogames. And not DVDs, MP3s, the internet, TV, microwave burritos, day planning, weather forecasting, time-keeping, bird-watching . . .

 

[Adamant]

You could buy stocks with the original Famicom.