Anybody and everybody saying that there's no reason one should expect Nintendo to release this is blatantly ignoring some rather simple logic.
Can Nintendo make money with this?
Would it provide greater amounts of playability?
Would it generate further interest in the DSi in any way?
Is it simple for Nintendo to integrate?
Is there an enormous backlog of old handheld titles available that the regular DS was incapable of playing?
Did Nintendo not just remove the one thing that made the DS capable of playing ANY backlog whatsoever, and add internal memory + expandable memory abilities?
Frankly, every single one of those questions can be answered with a very emphatic "YES". And I, just like so many others, am incredibly interested in being able to once again play a variety of old handheld titles on a handheld.
Look at this backlog of titles that they could make available for download:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_for_the_original_Game_Boy 624
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Game_Boy_games 457
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Color_games 467
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Advance_games 1659
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Gear_games 625
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_Lynx_games 83
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neo-Geo_Pocket_Color_games 92
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WonderSwan_Color_games 102
Going through the lists, we have a grand total of 4100 possible titles.
Need I say more?
However, I do think teh sage is jumping the gun a bit. The DSi hasn't been out for THAT long. Give it a little time. It'll happen.
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