Nintendo's disappointment

It's sparked plenty of speculation about what they might have up their sleeves, but that patent Nintendo just received for "an existing video game system...modified to include additional communication and storage capability via a modem and hard disk drive," that would permit "downloading from the Internet of entire games" and would also incorporate a cable TV tuner and be able to pull TV programming guide data off of the Internet, isn't exactly as promising as it sounds. You'd think maybe it'd mean Nintendo was planning to launch some sort of online game service and/or PSX-like console with digital video recording capabilities, but it turns out it's just a supplement to an earlier patent related to the 64DD, Nintendo's failed hard drive add-on for their N64 console. Sorry.

[Thanks, Jabari]