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












Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
LilCo187 @ Jan 4th 2008 3:22PM
lmao wow.... NY Times for the mufuckin win.
Limezor @ Jan 4th 2008 5:33PM
What a disappointment.
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.
Roto13 @ Jan 4th 2008 5:58PM
Now you're just being paranoid.
ark_v2 @ Jan 4th 2008 5:06PM
emmm...obvious should I say?
deaftly @ Jan 4th 2008 5:33PM
Sorta random but has anyone received their Wiimote jackets, i remembering ordering them back in november and it just hit me that i never got them yet. I got my crappy ds stylus's but not them :(
iofthestorm @ Jan 4th 2008 7:19PM
Yeah, got mine at least a month ago.
Cuja @ Jan 5th 2008 12:45AM
Both systems are a big disappointment. Dump your Nintendo stock before the CEOs do.
t_m @ Jan 5th 2008 7:25AM
to paraphrase: "we are idiots and we don't want to make any more money with this obvious moneyspinner"
"ps/ we have enough already, so neh!"