Whether or not you're excited about the DSi's camera(s), it's sure to have some potential for future fun. Is there anything you'd like to see done with the handheld's included cameras? Any particular apps? Do you want to make faces? Wave things in front of the camera? Just take random pictures of friends who don't realize that's what you're doing with your DS?DS Daily: Camera games
Whether or not you're excited about the DSi's camera(s), it's sure to have some potential for future fun. Is there anything you'd like to see done with the handheld's included cameras? Any particular apps? Do you want to make faces? Wave things in front of the camera? Just take random pictures of friends who don't realize that's what you're doing with your DS?
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10-12-2008 @ 10:38AM
Psalm Bowser said...
They'll probably be an increase in creepos posting pictures of little girls on the train/bus. I actually caught a nasty fucker recording my little sister on the train three or four months ago with his camera phone.
I don't like this DSi.
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10-12-2008 @ 10:49AM
aj said...
And I'm tired of Japanese tourists and dumbass college kids taking pictures of me with their cell phones but pretending to be texting on the bus because I look silly (I have long hair and I'm a guy. This usually ends in pointing and staring because it's still a novelty even now, 60 years after The Beatles.).
No, I don't like the DSi either.
10-12-2008 @ 11:29AM
Jacksons said...
It must not bother you too much or you'd chop it :)
10-12-2008 @ 12:00PM
aj said...
I use my hair as a hat. I live in Canada, where winter means -50 with wind. So every little bit helps, you know?
I just think it's bizarre that someone with long hair is stared at, but the morons with pink two-tone hair and dressed up like some kind of futuristic space prostitute don't. What world is this?
10-12-2008 @ 12:29PM
Roto13 said...
I used to have really long hair and I didn't get stared at. (And the Beatles weren't around in the 40's.)
10-13-2008 @ 12:25AM
aj said...
You've obviously never heard the obscure recordings from when The Beatles were a big band jazz group during the war.
10-12-2008 @ 10:46AM
James said...
I want Skype. Also maybe some kind of game where characters interact with pictures I've taken.
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10-12-2008 @ 11:14AM
GS Play said...
I will use it to take pictures of my friends, but they will know it. Actually, people of my class like to be in photos. When I'm with my camera, everybody asks to take a picture, not only my friends).
For me it'll be great. I love to take photos and I don't need to take pictures of people without them realizing it :)
Even without apps and games using it, I would buy a DSi to have a camera on my ds
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10-12-2008 @ 11:27AM
Jacksons said...
Anything I would post could be summed up as "No." So no.
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10-12-2008 @ 11:40AM
Zealot said...
Make a Castlevania game where I can have a boss battle against my cat's giant, floating head and I'll change my mind completely about the DSi. Anything less and it's still not a selling point.
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10-12-2008 @ 3:12PM
aj said...
Someone who runs a development studio should hire you right now. I'm not kidding. I want giant cat head battles.
10-12-2008 @ 9:04PM
Zealot said...
Yeah, nobody can tell me that this wouldn't be awesome: http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=catstlevaniamp3.jpg (yes, that's my cat)
It's probably better that I keep my ideas to myself. If Konami hired me, they'd force me to dress like IGA.
10-12-2008 @ 11:44AM
Sam said...
I foresee a WarioWare game taking advantage of this. If they can utilize the camera somehow, I'll be sold.
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10-12-2008 @ 11:59AM
Ihar `Philips` Filipau said...
Camera + Mic + WiFi...
I can imaging a game using it (or Skype) but as much as engaging the experience could be, with already mentioned lower battery life, the fun would be very very short.
Both WiFi and Camera are huge suckers when it comes to battery life. That was already tested with laptops many times.
10-12-2008 @ 12:01PM
Alien said...
Nah... the camera is to low-res for me to use it... but maybe a game like the one made for the Gizmondo ( where a picture can be transformed into a level ) would be cool :D
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10-12-2008 @ 12:42PM
Hamster said...
Not really, I hate looking at myself in photos, so I don't really want any of that sort of thing encroaching into games, but then I don't even like Miis encroaching into Mario Kart, so maybe I'm just too much of a purist. I guess they're probably some cool ways that it could be used in gameplay, but I never really like games to be developed with gimmicks in mind.
As for just having the camera itself, well, that may be come in handy I guess, but nothing I can't do with my phone (or err, camera) and the photo-editing stuff may be neat, but probably nothing I can't do on PhotoShop.
Also, to go back to my first point, does anyone else hate it when friends take a picture of you with their phone without your permission and then shove it front of your face. "Oh I look hideous, thanks for that....", now they can do it with their DSs! :-o
And one final thing, seeing as I haven't really written anything on the DSi since it was announced. Isn't the whole convergence thing something Nintendo was always against? I'm sure I can probably find numerous old quotes from Iwata and co about how the DS was a dedicated games console against the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none competition, etc. Don't get me wrong though I think it's kind of cool and I'll probably get one. I guess all games consoles have to be multi-functional, convergent devices now.
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10-13-2008 @ 10:39AM
Jacynta said...
I think EVERY electronic device has to be multi functional these days, they'll probably add a phone to the DS eventually.
I must be a purist too, because I agree with everything you said.
Though I don't think I'll be buying it unless mine breaks.
10-12-2008 @ 12:51PM
time said...
game boy camera sequel!
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10-12-2008 @ 12:51PM
Ollec said...
When the DSi comes out, I can definitely see Little Big Planet DS (or whatever they decide to call it) coming out. The camera can be used to take pictures of things to build your own stage thing and have all those little creatures interact with them.
If something like that is on the release list, I'm completely getting the DSi. ^_^
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10-12-2008 @ 8:57PM
Shoyz said...
As far as I know, LittleBigPlanet is a Sony Exclusive.