Nintendo: No 'complete' DS games via Wii, only demos

by James Ransom-Wiley { Jan 4th 2008 at 3:15PM }

While The New York Times was busy correcting the spelling of Reggie's surname (twice!) – it's 'Fils-Aime' – Nintendo got to work righting the Business Day article's bigger blunder, which claims, "Complete games ... will be able to be downloaded into the Wii using its broadband connection, and then transferred wirelessly to the DS." In a statement released today, Nintendo corrected the bogus announcement, explaining that "in the future, the Nintendo DS will be able to receive demo versions of some DS games from Wii, but not the entire game." These demos, like all content that can be beamed to DS currently, will be erased once the handheld is switched off.

Mr. Taub penned a real lemon for The NY Times on Monday. The article has a growing list of edits appended to the end and still contains the major error cited today, along with this beautifully muffed sentence: "Mr. Fils-Aime said that future DS device will be more tightly integrated with its Wii console."

Tags: everybodys-nintendo, reggie, reggie-fils-aime

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LilCo187 @ Jan 4th 2008 3:22PM

lmao wow.... NY Times for the mufuckin win.

arrrgh @ Jan 4th 2008 3:25PM

hahah future DS device!! sweet i cant wait!

Jerk Face @ Jan 4th 2008 3:29PM

Future DS device CONFIRMED.

Superstar90 @ Jan 4th 2008 4:46PM

It will just be 2 DS's duct taped together, with waggle and minigames :D

Anam @ Jan 4th 2008 3:27PM

Metal Gear Solid 4 will be on the 360... no wait it won't... actually it will... no wait, it won't.
Crysis will be on the 360... no wait it won't.
Full DS games will be on the Wii... no wait, they won't.

It's ACME disappearing-reappearing news!

Matt B @ Jan 4th 2008 4:36PM

At least this is true:

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN0432340820080104

bender @ Jan 4th 2008 5:05PM

That's irrelevant to this article, Matt B.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 4th 2008 3:28PM

Does anybody take the NYTimes seriously anymore?

And if they do, should they?

cold school @ Jan 4th 2008 5:08PM

liberals.
No.

Dirk Dorkelson @ Jan 4th 2008 4:13PM

They'd be fine if they put out a memo that said that only Seth Schiesel is allowed to write about games for the paper. That guy (their full-time video games reporter) does some amazing work. He must cringe every time something like this comes up.

J @ Jan 4th 2008 4:48PM

First it's Judy Miller selling lies of WMD's in Iraq... now this.

Mr Khan @ Jan 4th 2008 3:40PM

Makes sense, DS doesn't really have the RAM to put full-scale games right into memory (single card play, of course, only pulls parts of games)

Demos seem more apporpriate

JRM @ Jan 4th 2008 3:50PM

also the download is quicker, and it's free.

Trickob @ Jan 4th 2008 3:47PM

its not surprising when you think about it. in these "sensationalist" times, the general news media doesn't care if they get all of their facts straight about video games unless they're doing a story about some five-year-old who stabbed a classmate with a pen after watching a commercial for manhunt 7 or whatever...

Anam @ Jan 4th 2008 3:57PM

Even then they don't really care about getting the story right. They blamed Columbine on Manson when the two guys didn't even listen to him and when Virginia Tech happened they let Thompson talk about the problems with videogames before bothering to confirm the presence of videogames.

Dr. @ Jan 4th 2008 4:07PM

I'm quite impressed they managed to fit that many lies into so few words. That's talent right there, folks.

Superstar90 @ Jan 4th 2008 4:45PM

You said "lie", but you didn't say "cake"! U PhAiLz @ iNtErNeTz!

Anam @ Jan 4th 2008 4:56PM

Apparently references to Portal are still capable of cracking me up.

Roto13 @ Jan 4th 2008 4:44PM

Someone needs to be fired.

Roto13 @ Jan 4th 2008 4:44PM

*From a cannon.

Zertoss @ Jan 4th 2008 4:57PM

*Into the sun.

Anam @ Jan 4th 2008 5:01PM

*Shining so bright.

required @ Jan 4th 2008 5:00PM

It's plausible that someone somewhere paid good money to get this possibly purposefully flawed news out. Some might even say all it takes to make a sale is two screens, some smoke, mirrors and a rumor. It's worked before, hell I remember some folks saying something along the same lines about stylus control.