Upon hearing that the NYC Nintendo Store had begun hosting a DS Download Station, Gaming Steve rushed to the scene with a phat DS in hand and some Brain Training in mind. After failing to find the actual station, a shocking truth was revealed: The Wi-Fi signals are coming from inside the store.The omnipresent power of Wi-Fi flooding the building quickly enabled him to latch onto the download service and grab some demos. Download time is reported to be very quick indeed, though 15 seconds may seem like an eternity when you're waiting to play Tetris DS. The linked article also contains some impressions of the various demos and you'd do well to check them out if Nintendo still hasn't gotten around to dropping of a Wi-Fi kiosk thing at your local mall.
[Thanks Stephen!]
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3-08-2006 @ 4:34PM
Loban said...
I really hope these download stations come to my area. One thing I really hate about console games vs. PC games is the inability to get demos. Sure you can rent the game first and now Xbox Live is allowing demo downloads, but it's still not as easy as downloading a free demo of a PC game. And almost every PC game has a demo.
There are a lot of games I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't played the demo first. Demos sell games, period.
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3-08-2006 @ 4:45PM
Gonzo said...
Yea
I tried that thing last week. It's an awsome idea but it needs to be more widespread. Yea, the guy there chuckled a little when I asked him about the rumored "kiosk".
You only get to try the math problems and sudoku in Brain Training, they also give you two modes of tetris.
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3-08-2006 @ 5:54PM
kevin hanson said...
How do we find out where our nearest local kiosk is?
-Kevin
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3-08-2006 @ 6:09PM
fischu said...
I hope somebody captues these and puts them up for download
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