By now, regular readers will be familiar with DSVision, a new service that will offer Japanese DS owners downloadable media from next March, and which is fully licensed by Nintendo. The only problem? We've heard absolutely zilch about a release outside Japan.
But there is hope, friends! An anonymous tipster has informed MaxConsole that French law enforcement agencies have begun confiscating Datel's DS flash card range, devices which perform very similar functions to those offered by DSVision. According to the mole, the operation to seize the cards came after a tip-off from Nintendo, which complained that the Datel cards were illegal, as they contained copyrighted code. MaxConsole reckons there could be more to the story, however, and speculates that Nintendo is clearing the way for its own range of multimedia peripherals.
We'll happily admit that this is all pretty damn speculative -- hence the "rumor" label -- but we've still got every last one of our fingers and toes crossed extra tight. Although users of certain naughty devices have been able to download and view video on their DSes for some time now, the quality is typically quite low (or so we hear, officer).
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12-07-2007 @ 11:27AM
yomachaser said...
The circle is complete...I predicted this.
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12-07-2007 @ 11:38AM
troy said...
What you heard about low quality vids isn't always true... as in there are many nice looking dpgs or other ds playable videos that use every last pixel of the screen to full advantage (and take up little less space than a fullscreen video).
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12-07-2007 @ 11:59AM
hvnlysoldr said...
Cue Captain Jack Sparrow running from Nintendo's lawyers.
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12-07-2007 @ 1:34PM
NeoteriX said...
I'd be interesting in hearing the copyright argument for Nintendo. Last I checked, these arguments lost in cases like Nintendo v. Galoob and Sega v. Accolade.
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12-07-2007 @ 1:59PM
Fank said...
Again with R4!!
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12-07-2007 @ 6:17PM
Silent Xenocide said...
More like, "Arr4" amirite?
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12-07-2007 @ 8:28PM
Jackson H said...
I love this headline, it makes Nintendo sound like an angry dictator (in other words, Kim Jung Il.)
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12-09-2007 @ 12:40AM
Neko M said...
Vision fails for being a side-loader. I don't want to have to take the cart out to switch storage media.
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