It was inevitable. All these kids setting their R4's afire with all the latest games and figuratively flipping off the economy could only run wild and free for so long. Nintendo's more than aware of what's going on, and it's been rumored for a while that they were considering some way to offer a service that could draw the attention away from piracy and towards legality. As of today, the rumor has become a reality with the announcement of DSvision.
AM3 and Dai Nippon have joined forces and signed an agreement with Nintendo to produce the product, which will launch in Japan in January. It comes with a 512 MB microSD card and a high-speed USB adaptor to connect to your PC for file transfer. All this will retail for the rough equivalent of $36 US dollars. DSvision, the download service, will launch shortly after in March.
Now, this all sounds fine and dandy, but the question is whether or not this will slow piracy on the DS. It's currently one of the easiest systems to pirate and R4 users are abundant. While it sounds as if the DSvision service may offer a really cool range of downloadable content (books, comics, movies and music will all be available,) it's hard to talk people out of getting games for free, illegal or not.
[Via C3 news -- thanks Jonathan!]
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11:59 AM on 11.29.2007
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I can rattle off 3-4 download services that Nintendo's tried in the past that didn't make it outside Japan.
BS system, Famicom Disk System, DD64, for example. Nintendo's been all over this shit in the past, but we never see it leave Japan.
It's all well and good, but it's nothing more than just fluff unless it launches here.
Also, I'm not paying $36 for a 512MB MicroSD card, no way.
Products that personaly don´t sound good for a DS. A book will always be a book for me if it has pages and smells like pages and ink, as well as comic books.
Movies and music sound good for a DS, but the 512 mb sounds ridicolous.
I think it´s nice move from Nintendo, but poorly adapted to teh reality.
Can't wait till I get my R4 on XMAS
Dude you wont be upset, when I learned of the R4 (few months back) I had to have it. Best thing Ive ever bought. Before that my DS kinda just sat, and my girlfriend used it to play Mario. Now that I have it, I play it all the time. Hell I even talked my buddie into getting one for him, and now we play so many games WiFi style.
That was one of the biggest selling points, is that everything stays the way it was originally. And I love the fact I can selected a bunch of different games and then be able to use a soft reset and play another without having to turn the fucking thing off.
And to everyone that bitches about pirating, stfu.
Im 25 years old, I pay a morgage, and bills. Wait till you get out on your own, you keep trying to buy all this shit haha
And as I said, I pirate things too but not very often and I try to buy them when I can. No one is perfect but at least be a man about it, not a bitch.
Totally.
Coincidentally, I love this product and hope it comes out here =D.
(Alien Hominade should be on the ds damn it.)
I use my R4 mostly for comicbook ds and music. Read more alpha is great for books but maybe nintendo will make a better book reading app.
As for games I mostly pirate games to demo. If i really like a game I'll buy it. It has saved me from buying some games I thought would be good.
Viewing dpg movies is ok. I occasionaly use it to watch tc shows during lunch that i missed the night before. Tonight i got off late so I'll be using it to watch smallville at lunch tommorrow.
This damn sure ain't going to stop piracy it will greatly help it.
2. Decide if you like the game
3. Buy it
4. Continue playing the rom on your R4.
works for me.
Depending on the pricing, I'd be willing to get this, not as a replacement for my R4, to compliment it (as in.. legal)
Now if this had something like a) a bigger card, b)demo-to-buy downloads, and full game time sensitive demos at that. No cut up limited featured BS c) full homebrew app support (love my moonshine) .. then I'll go legal eagle, promise.