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Soleron on 06 April 2012
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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Soleron said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:


That's not how it works. Download play means that the game-less DS's will download demo versions from the host and will then run the software by themselves.

Exactly, the program you give to the DS is one that accepts the computed result from the 3DS and displays it. The downloaded thing doesn't have to be the game.


Neither the DS nor the 3DS are able to do any of that. And even if they were, that'd be a pretty silly business strategy.

The hardware is capable of it. The DS is programmed to recieve and execute arbitrary software from another "DS", so the 3DS has to pretend it's a DS and then send a modified program, but I don't see how it's impossible.

The reason why it would be a good business strategy is that 3DSs are rare, people don't know other people with a 3DS. But they do have DSs. So multiplayer games on the 3DS would appeal to more people if they knew that they could be played using one 3DS. It won't happen but I'm saying that is my condition for buying this thing, because I'm sure not going to buy a second 3DS just for this game.