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Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Boosts Range of DS From Your Hands to the World

May 17, 2005


DS Versions of Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Tony Hawk All Planned by Year's End



By the end of the year, Nintendo DS owners around the world will be able to play their favorite franchises via Wi-Fi. Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing DS and a new Tony Hawk title from Activision are targeted to be among the first using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, a groundbreaking portable, wireless gaming network. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection fulfills the promise of the wireless capabilities of Nintendo DS by taking advantage of yet another innovative aspect of the system and using it to expand the gaming experience to wider audiences.

“Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection has an immediate user base of more than 5 million Nintendo DS owners worldwide, and it’s growing every day,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “The service invites everyone to enjoy the game-play experience for Nintendo-developed games using wireless connections with very easy setup procedures and no added service fees.”

Nintendo is partnering with IGN Entertainment to manage the service’s architecture and navigation. Using IGN’s GameSpy Technology, DS players will connect wirelessly at any Wi-Fi hub, find their friends and begin racing, battling or chatting as easily as if they were sitting in the same room. Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection also lets players post high scores and includes an option for games to have online storage space to store game data. More than 25 publishers worldwide are working on titles that will use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

In the six months since it launched, Nintendo DS has redefined portable gaming. With Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the next six months will bring equally exciting innovations. Mario Kart DS, due in Q4, lets up to eight players race against one another in classic Mario Kart fashion on new tracks and arenas. Zip through raceways and environments while firing shells at your opponents using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Animal Crossing DS, also due in Q4, gives players in different locations the ability to explore their worlds and manage their homes. Using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, players can hang out, collect items or visit with friends.

A number of other upcoming titles will make use of the DS Local Area Network and build on Nintendo’s reputation for innovation as they expand the definition of what portable games can be. Nintendogs puts a simulated puppy into the Nintendo DS. Owners bond with incredibly realistic – and insanely cute – puppies and train them to do tricks using both the touch screen and voice recognition. Users can toss a ball and watch the pup retrieve it, or teach the puppy to come at the sound of their voices. The puppies will stare longingly through the screen, and do everything but lick your face. When in “Bark Mode,” puppies bark when they pass by other Nintendo DS owners using Nintendogs, so that people and their puppies can interact with one another. Nintendogs received a rare perfect score from Weekly Famitsu, Japan’s leading video game magazine. Nintendogs represents a dramatic leap forward in artificial intelligence for video games and is scheduled for an Aug. 22 release in North America.

Another creative title, Electroplankton, turns Nintendo DS systems into musical instruments. Users create pulsing or soothing rhythms with the touch screen. Each new setting changes the tune and takes the user on a new musical path. Electroplankton includes 10 different enchanting musical landscapes designed by multimedia artist Toshio Iwai.

Additional games in every genre will round out the impressive 2005 software lineup for Nintendo DS. Metroid Prime Hunters brings first-person shooting dynamics to the dual screens and touch screen. Fans will rejoice about the wild adventures in both Mario & Luigi 2 and New Super Mario Bros. And Trace Memory unfolds like an interactive mystery adventure novel.

Publishers developing games for the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection include:

Activision, Inc. -- Tony Hawk game (working title)
Atari -- TBA
BANDAI CO., LTD. -- Mobile Suit Gundam (working title); Digimon World (working title)
BANPRESTO CO., LTD. -- TBA
Buena Vista -- TBA
CAPCOM CO., LTD. -- TBA
Electronic Arts -- TBA
FromSoftware, Inc. -- Tenchu DS (working title)
HUDSON SOFT Co., Ltd. -- Bomberman (working title); Momotaro Dentetsu World (working title)
KOEI Co., Ltd. -- Dynasty Warriors DS (working title)
KONAMI CORPORATION -- KOJIMA Productions Products; WORLD SOCCER Winning Eleven Series; JIKKYO POWERFUL PROYAKYU Series (working title); Castlevania Series (working title)
Majesco -- TBA
Marvelous Interactive Inc. -- Bokujou-Monogatari series (working title); Rune Factory (working title); Contact (working title); Real-Time-Strategy (working title)
Mastiff -- TBA
NAMCO LIMITED -- New RPG (working title)
Nintendo -- Animal Crossing DS; Mario Kart DS; Many more titles in development
SEGA CORPORATION -- TBA
Spike CO., LTD. -- Professional Wrestling (working title)
SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. -- Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (working title)
TAITO CORPORATION -- TBA
Take 2 (2K Games) -- TBA
Telegames -- TBA
THQ -- TBA
Ubisoft -- TBA
Vivendi -- TBA
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Compete Against Nintendo DS Owners Around the World with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

May 17, 2005


By the end of the year, you'll be playing your favorite franchises via Wi-Fi on Nintendo DS



You've schooled your best friends, dominated your roommates and owned your little brother more times than you can count. Looking for a challenge? Soon you'll be able to put your skills to the test against fresh competition from Nintendo DS owners around the world with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Your favorite franchises are slated to be available via Wi-Fi by the end of the year, with Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing DS and a new Tony Hawk title from Activision scheduled to be among the first games compatible with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Nintendo is partnering with IGN Entertainment to manage the service’s architecture and navigation. Using IGN’s GameSpy Technology, you'll be able to connect wirelessly at any Wi-Fi hub, find your friends and begin racing, battling or chatting as easily as if they were sitting with you in the same room.

Mario Kart DS, due in Q4, lets up to eight players race against one another in classic Mario Kart fashion on new tracks and arenas. Zip through raceways and environments while firing shells at your opponents using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Animal Crossing DS, also due in Q4, gives players in different locations the ability to explore their worlds and manage their homes. Using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, players can hang out, collect items or visit with friends.

More than 25 publishers worldwide are working on titles that will use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Publishers developing games for the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection include:

Activision, Inc. -- Tony Hawk game (working title)
Atari -- TBA
BANDAI CO., LTD. -- Mobile Suit Gundam (working title); Digimon World (working title)
BANPRESTO CO., LTD. -- TBA
Buena Vista -- TBA
CAPCOM CO., LTD. -- TBA
Electronic Arts -- TBA
FromSoftware, Inc. -- Tenchu DS (working title)
HUDSON SOFT Co., Ltd. -- Bomberman (working title); Momotaro Dentetsu World (working title)
KOEI Co., Ltd. -- Dynasty Warriors DS (working title)
KONAMI CORPORATION -- KOJIMA Productions Products; WORLD SOCCER Winning Eleven Series; JIKKYO POWERFUL PROYAKYU Series (working title); Castlevania Series (working title)
Majesco -- TBA
Marvelous Interactive Inc. -- Bokujou-Monogatari series (working title); Rune Factory (working title); Contact (working title); Real-Time-Strategy (working title)
Mastiff -- TBA
NAMCO LIMITED -- New RPG (working title)
Nintendo -- Animal Crossing DS; Mario Kart DS; Many more titles in development
SEGA CORPORATION -- TBA
Spike CO., LTD. -- Professional Wrestling (working title)
SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. -- Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (working title)
TAITO CORPORATION -- TBA
Take 2 (2K Games) -- TBA
Telegames -- TBA
THQ -- TBA
Ubisoft -- TBA
Vivendi -- TBA

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Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection extends Nintendo DS' range from your hands to the world: By the end of the year, owners of the dual-screened Nintendo DS will be playing Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing DS and a new Tony Hawk title from Activision wirelessly with their friends worldwide. The new Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection portable, wireless video game service debuts later this year and lets players join in for no added Nintendo subscription charges. IGN Entertainment will manage the architecture and navigation of the service. DS players will connect at any Wi-Fi hub, whether in their home, at a coffee shop or elsewhere. The service will let friends join together as easily as if they were playing in the same room and instantly broadens the gaming experience to players worldwide.

With more than 60 licensee titles due this year, Nintendo also seeks to expand the idea of what constitutes a video game. New software titles like Nintendogs and Electroplankton for Nintendo DS provide unique experiences beyond traditional definitions. Nintendogs lets users choose an extremely realistic puppy and form emotional bonds with it, while Electroplankton lets users create their own ethereal or pulsing rhythms using the touch screen.
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[Mephistopheles]

Yeah, I bet it is cool, but it doesn't has any use if you don't have a DS yet (such as me, of course, that's why I complain), but still Wi-Fi connection is the old-connection, its size and speed its not that good, a new wireless capability has been developed, I think it was by intel, I dont remember that good, I don't remember the exact name right now, it was Wi-something, and has a 100 kilometers wireless radius in a small chip around 2 cm.

[Calumon]

Mephistopheles said:

...but still Wi-Fi connection is the old-connection, its size and speed its not that good, a new wireless capability has been developed, I think it was by intel, I dont remember that good, I don't remember the exact name right now, it was Wi-something, and has a 100 kilometers wireless radius in a small chip around 2 cm.

[glow=purple,5,300]I'm confused. Isn't Wi-Fi just referring to wireless internet? [/glow]

[Mephistopheles]

In meaning, maybe, but in terms there is a new "version" of what can be called wi-fi that is a tiny chip that has an impressive 100 kilometers, it is possible it means that one, but it doesn't sound like it.

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Meaning of Wi-Fi from Wikipedia:

"Wi-Fi (or Wi-fi, WiFi, Wifi, wifi), short for "Wireless Fidelity", is a set of product compatibility standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802.11 specifications. New standards beyond the 802.11 specifications, such as 802.16(WiMAX), are currently in the works and offer many enhancements, anywhere from longer range to greater transfer speeds.

Wi-Fi was intended to be used for mobile devices and LANs, but is now often used for Internet access."
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The new type of Wi-Fi (WiMAX) is still in developement. Also Wi-Fi is the current standard.

EDIT: Glad to see you back Calumon.

[Calumon]

Link said:

EDIT: Glad to see you back Calumon.

[glow=purple,5,300]Thanks Link; during my vacations I had problems with my computer so I had to buy a new one.[/glow]

[Mephistopheles]

Just for curiosity, hey Link, this post is for DS online ok?, then why do you specify every game that it will be online? if they weren't it would be a waste of technollogy and would surely dissapoint many.

Note to Link: I'm not trying to bother you, it's natural in me (you should know that by now).

[Link]

Sorry for reviving this, but now that we are in the year 2006 and we have Wi-Fi, and seeing some announced games for DS, let's check again at the list of publishers and games that will be Wi-Fi compatible.

Capcom has TBA. We can't make up anything from that until E3 2006.
Konami has Castlevania series, now that's interesting. A Castlevania game online would be odd.

[Mephistopheles]

They're not so many.......

Castlevania online odd....... well, the first online game of each type should sound rather odd.

[G]

I'd like to try "Mario Kart DS" with the WiFi feat-thing... It sounds fun!... If you like playing online games, then you might have a very considerable option right here:

WiFi provides online DS games
+ incoming (an today present) cool titles that might open your VGing-interest
+ the ability to play hours and hours, entertain yourself and feel satisfied with complete prtable titles
+ the ability to beat online users, have your own bounty-hunter reputation, your unbeatable records, etc...


(PS: I can't wait until a Super Smash Brothers DS comes out!!!.... well, hum.. I can.. I'll just have to...)

[Link]

SSB-DS will not exist. Sorry to destroy some people's dreams but I think Nintendo will leave SSB to home consoles only.

[Mephistopheles]

Unless........

No, there's absolutely no way.....

Or is it........

I suppose you're right, in any case, Nintendo never said there would be......... nor anybody else...... well, except G.

[Link]

LOL, check the NSider forums and you'll see how many people have thought of SSB-DS since NDS's release date (2004).

It was just a matter of time before someone posted it here.