Wii won't be your sugar mama for DS games

  

    After holding out the promise of downloadable DS content via the wii, in a new york times interview, Reggie Fils-Aime (president of nintendo america), has now been hastily corrected by his bosses back in japan.

Nintendo issuing the following response: "An article about the Nintendo DS video game system in the December 31 Business Day section of the New York Times incorrectly referred to future capabilities of the device,".

Although I don't own a wii (thanks to nintendo's lack of factories for the damn thing), I do however own a nintendo ds. Downloadable content for me makes sense on the nintendo wii
since nintendo's two main rivals have been supporting mobile devices through the console for awhile now. The best example of what nintendo appearently has refused or been unable to do, is Sony making downloadable content available for the PSP over the PS3 network. The second example is microsoft's going all out for its ipod killer, the zune and giving us the ability to download music, video's, etc over xbox live.

By limiting to the wii's usefulness to a so-so online gaming experience with our only true promise of using it being when super smash bro's 2 comes out. This being a sad reminder that most 3rd party games are made of failure and  utter garbage. Nintendo seems to be shooting itself in the foot by not providing what the big boys have been providing consumers with for sometime now.

One has to wonder what will happen when gamers in 2008 come to view all these limitations (poor games, lack of HD, lack of use with DS), and are then joined in by the elderly not buying anything beyond wii sport for the rest of there days.