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November 5, 2009 by RawmeatCowboy Filed Under: DS, Nintendo in general

I believe it is very important to establish an environment where Nintendo DS owners can easily connect to the Internet without having to set anything up. Actually when we ask customers to set up something in your home, many of them refuse, saying that it's too difficult for them. But when we ask them to just bring their Nintendo DS to a specified location as we actually do, they actually bring them if there are meaningful contents. Thus by broadening such an environment, we can have many Nintendo DS owners feel the value of being connected. Afterwards, we can expect more of them to want to do it at home since they now understand the value of being connected. So this is the process that I imagine (for spreading Internet connection on our platforms.) - Satoru Iwata

That seems like a good solution for DS owners, but what is Nintendo supposed to do with the Wii? You don't lug your console around to various locations. Perhaps they could bombard the DS user with Wii online messages when they take their DS to one of these online locations.

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November 5, 2009 at 9:35 am
Perhaps people don't want to go online with Nintendo :P.
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November 5, 2009 at 9:49 am
Four words: No More Friend Codes!
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November 5, 2009 at 9:50 am
How can they call this accurate when Xbox and PS3s connect rate is up in the 80+ percentile?

They're just ignoring the fact that their system SUCKS when trying to get online and there's little value in doing so.

They're also trying to dodge admitting they need to do ACTUAL advertising and promotion for online.
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November 5, 2009 at 10:10 am
Friend Codes suck. That is all. Also there isn't that many first party DS titles that go online. Also maybe if your systems and games weren't to easy to hack into maybe more people would play that's what stopped me from playing online with most of there games
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November 5, 2009 at 10:19 am
So how is Brawl doing these days with online play? Reading that many people gave up playing it online due to issues made me restrain myself from buying it really.

The only online I do is check the Shop channel now and then and maybe the Nintendo channel if I feel like wasting a few moments. But anything apart from playing Wii games online, I can do better on my PC, so yeah.
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November 5, 2009 at 10:28 am
@gLitterbug

It is still slow to find someone play with very laggy. Pretty bad but still get the game local is just as fun. I love it even though I have to play it by myself most of the time.
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November 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@mariomaniac45213

Yeah I know, Melee is one of my favorite games, but my local "smash bros" didn't show any interest at the time and so online was a main decision point for me.

I'll probably get it sometime after I've gotten a few other games still. I'm slow with playing through the ones I have.
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November 5, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I wouldn't need to be convinced to go online with my DS... if I could. Support WPA/WPA2 in games!!!!!!!
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November 5, 2009 at 1:55 pm
^Seconded. I haven't been able to play DS online cause of no WPA support:(

I had problems connecting my Wii also, because it auto-detected my router as WPA when it was infact WPA2 (It had been updated from WPA to WPA2 and I didn't know, tried EVERYTHING else before setting the connection to WPA2)
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November 5, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Quit treating online some some kind of untested novelty, and actually get into utilizing the services for future games.

This isn't the mid-1990's. Stop acting like it.

Friend codes are a joke. People may hate on Xbox for being an non-Nintendo system, but it's incredibly convenient to power on, see who's online and playing what, then just join in.
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