Download full DS games on Wii
Nintendo President (in the US) Reggie Fils-Aime recently spoke to the New York Times. He confirmed that in future the DS and Wii will be more tightly integrated.
Most interestingly, according to the article not only will DS demos be downloadable, but complete games as well.
The Everyone's Nintendo Channel went live weeks ago in Japan, but there's still no mention of when other regions will get it.
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Wiii
WOO! Finally we can get full DS games soon, but I doubt they'll be free. Maybe we'll need some Wii points or something.
Master Foot
If this is the case, then the DS would need some sort of re-writable cartridge because there is no way that an entire DS game is going to be run from internal memory. It's kind of silly that there is a possibility that Nintendo is willing to expand DS storage but not Wii.
Juan
Cool, maybe wiiware will have some games that connect to the DS, like the Pokemon Farm Channel.
Sonic Phantom
Well this is good news. Only thing is, I don't own a DS.
Aeth
Very interesting indeed. I wonder which DS games are they planning to allow to be on the Wii. If they allow download of popular games like Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass it might upset those who bought the games when they were for the DS. If they are games like Brain Age and possibly other lesser-known games then it'll be kind of like the Virtual Console. But Nintendo must already know about the issues and are finding ways to solve them without getting people upset. Though if they were to have older Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and possibly Game Boy Advance games then that might make things better. All in all, this kind of sounds like another version of the Virtual Console, just for the handheld games to be on the TV.
YoshLee
Awesome, I know it will be in the US. That's funny how they put BFF (best friends forever).
Gonzo
I hope the US will get this channel. I hope the games are free.
Charlie
I agree, they just wouldn't give away full DS games, would they?
jskrdude
So where will the games be stored? On the Wii? I doubt the DS has enough storage to store DS games. Maybe they'll start releasing storage cartridges. This update raises some questions, but it should be pretty cool.
insultman911
This is going to be hard. I got 500 Wii points left. I might need more.
RikuZala
Mmmh, that's interesting.
YoshLee
I only have 800 Wii points that I'm saving for when they release super mario rpg on the Wii shop channel.
DragonFoxCoon
Master Foot has a point. But, would people be able to sell bootleg DS games that way?
ipostedthisonmywii
Little too good to be true.
Brandon
You will probably play them with your ds from your Wii via a LAN / wifi connection.
Nintendo4ever
That's great but how will we get games on the DS when there's no internal memory in it?
white mog
Bad news, full games aren't happening. It was a misquote.
WiiMom
I doubt that the DS games will be for free, but I can imagine that if you already have it for the DS, then Nintendo will make it possible for the already paid for games to be downloaded to the Wii. Maybe you will have to register them and pay with Wii points.
Wii Freak
Maybe if Nintendo makes super smash bros ds we'd be allowed to connect to brawl.
Rags
The Wii is now ten times awesomer. As if it wasn't awesome before.
Tennindo
Am waiting for Super Mario RPG too YoshLee. Be sweet if you can put your VC games on your DS though the channel.