Gaming News: Conflicting articles on the PSP. DS does have online play!

[jj984jj]

https://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=agkKFD5Q9dbk&refer=japan
This one says the PSP has a lack of games and developers.

https://psp.ign.com/articles/529/529666p1.html
Yet this is a list of new games for it. (Mostly sad titles for such a powerful system, I mean come on, Mahjong?)

Also, many many people are starting that DS will not have online support from Nintendo, which is totally wrong. In a recent interview with Miyamoto, he stated that Nintendo will not be support a browser for the DS, not online play. But a 3rd party company can take advantage of this capability, a little bit like Majesco is with the GBA TV.

Here is a decent translation of that part of Miyamoto's recent interview:

Question: Its more of a question of technology than as a game fan, but according to what the announcement said, that DS will also support a wireless LAN standard (IEEE802.11), you could say it can be used to connect to the net as well.

Miyamoto: That's right. Well, for Nintendo, we're definitely thinking about the subject of connecting DSes, but if something that interacted with an OS or application came out, because it can also connect to your home's wireless LAN, there's also the possibility of using it as an internet computer terminal.

Question: If some maker wanted to use the DS to connect to the internet, the machine's specs would be enough to handle it.

Miyamoto: Technologically, its a possibility. But, well, as Nintendo has said until now, "if you don't use that, you can't do this," "unless you have this one of these, then it's a no-go," that type of thing, as much as possible, we don't want to do. As much as we can, we want to do it so you can have fun, if you just buy the machine and that's all you need to have a new play experience. And in that way, we had many more ideas that crammed in more functions, but after all, we were coming from a feeling of wanting to sell it at, "A suitable price for playing." It settled down to the types of things we announced.

 

[Lokhlan]

I really have high hopes for the DS, so it better have online support!

I like the game line-up for the DS.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

"As much as we can, we want to do it so you can have fun, if you just buy the machine and that's all you need to have a new play experience."

Does the word "connectivity" ring a bell, Mr. Miyamoto? -_-

 

[Kyosuke]

Knowing how Nintendo handles Online playing, seeing how they don't think it might work (Gamecube for example), it might be botched enough so if any online thing happens it might turn out just like the online capibilities as Gamecube.

 

[Brittany]

Online play is one of the key elements to the PSP and DS, it wasnt, for the GCN or PS2, Originally PS2 and GCN were just going to be normal home-only systems, and they added in online play during the last stages of development.
With DS and PSP, they have been thinking of online play all along, so I have high hopes and expectations for PSP/DS online play.

 

[jj984jj]

I agree Brittany, I believe that Iwata doesn't want to spend $$$ on GC to try and boots it's capabilities this late in the race. With "Revolution" around the corner to be the successor to GC or some new home-console type product, it'll probably also have online capabilities, or some kind of wireless connectivity at least. Sure, they are still making relaistic Zelda and such, but this gen is almost over, trying to bring better online capabilities to it isn't in Nintendo's best interest with the way GameCube is going anyway.