Absence of GBA port? Booo! How am I going to play Super Mario 2, Castlevania, and more importantly Megaman Zero 2 (or however it's named). They need a dongle that converts the current DS slot into a GBA game connection or something.
If they go this route, expect a few things: 1. There will be something similar to a Wii Shop where you can buy loads of oldschool games. 2. You'll be able to use the nintendo site to type in your serial number on the back of the cartridge and download your game for free. We can already do this for registering a game, but I've always sensed that they wanted to do something more with this. And they would have some kind of security nonsense set up so that the downloaded games would only work on the DSes that you registered on their site :)
Don't worry....expect a 4 and 8gb model. Expect it to try and be a PSP-killer. Expect alot from this one.
@Mike: I didn't know that each individual GBA game had a serial number that was unique to the game cartridge.
I'm personally thinking that it will be less of registering your cartridge/DS and more of just downloading games straight to the device. And let me just add that THANK GOD that is happening. I'm sick of games on physical media. Flash is so cheap now, that we should be downloading everything and not buying it.
Think about it: No lines at the store, no pre-ordering, no outages of games that are insanely popular... The only downside to this is that all the used-game stores of the world would be hit hard. I think half the buisness they do is trade-ins on old games.
There would still be PS3/360/Wii/PS2/etc to trade in, but it was my thinking that it was mostly the portable consoles, in which the games are shorter and easier to complete, that trade-in was more profitable.
Yes, this worries me, what about the DS opera browser? what are they going to do about that? it uses the GBA slot as a RAM card, sooo, what happens then? gotta buy another Browser?
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Absence of GBA port? Booo! How am I going to play Super Mario 2, Castlevania, and more importantly Megaman Zero 2 (or however it's named). They need a dongle that converts the current DS slot into a GBA game connection or something.
Or you could drop $50 on a GBA Micro.
If they go this route, expect a few things:
1. There will be something similar to a Wii Shop where you can buy loads of oldschool games.
2. You'll be able to use the nintendo site to type in your serial number on the back of the cartridge and download your game for free. We can already do this for registering a game, but I've always sensed that they wanted to do something more with this. And they would have some kind of security nonsense set up so that the downloaded games would only work on the DSes that you registered on their site :)
Don't worry....expect a 4 and 8gb model. Expect it to try and be a PSP-killer. Expect alot from this one.
@Mike: I didn't know that each individual GBA game had a serial number that was unique to the game cartridge.
I'm personally thinking that it will be less of registering your cartridge/DS and more of just downloading games straight to the device. And let me just add that THANK GOD that is happening. I'm sick of games on physical media. Flash is so cheap now, that we should be downloading everything and not buying it.
Think about it: No lines at the store, no pre-ordering, no outages of games that are insanely popular... The only downside to this is that all the used-game stores of the world would be hit hard. I think half the buisness they do is trade-ins on old games.
There would still be PS3/360/Wii/PS2/etc to trade in, but it was my thinking that it was mostly the portable consoles, in which the games are shorter and easier to complete, that trade-in was more profitable.
I Could Be Wrong(TM) though.
Yes, this worries me, what about the DS opera browser? what are they going to do about that? it uses the GBA slot as a RAM card, sooo, what happens then? gotta buy another Browser?
correct, no memory expansion, I can only predict that it wont be needed what with the space onboard, or may even come with a new browser