I must say that we should probably revisit this debate after E3 because I suspect that the 3DS will (in many ways) give us an understanding of what Nintendo’s mindset on system development is at this point in time; as well as an understanding of how they are approaching features that may seem unimportant to Nintendo when they designed the Wii. As an example, if the 3DS includes 3G support, has system wide friend codes, and incorporates some features that are available on XBox Live (like being able to communicate with friends who are playing different games) it would be a fairly good indication that Nintendo is more focused on online than they were before; or if Nintendo demonstrates the 3DS with the same basic online functionality that the Nintendo DS had it would be an indication that their next home console would retain the same basic online functionality of the Wii.







