Nintendo to Launch Free Wi-Fi in Nov.

By Nate Mook | Published October 6, 2005, 1:49 PM

Nintendo said on Thursday its free Wi-Fi Connection service for wireless gaming will officially launch on November 14. The service will work with the company's Nintendo DS console and support a number of games, including Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing and Metroid Prime Hunters.

Wi-Fi Connection will be accessible from inside or outside the home, at select Nintendo Hotspots across the United States. The service will also be compatible with Nintendo's next-generation game console, known as the "Revolution." Players can connect and seek out known friends, or automatically play with others based on skill-level.

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Get that BS off of here, betanews is not a place for you to post your scam sites and lies you low life.

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bout time....now if they can only get rid of that ugly hinge that seperates the two screens :)

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Way to go Nintendo!!! :-)

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Very cool. I'm looking forward to testing this with my DS. Go Nintendo :)

By the way, us loyal Nintendo fans aren't going anywhere. I've been a Nintendo fan my whole life and I always will be. I think they'll be going for years to come.

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I'm actually considering a DS purchase with this new development. Animal Crossing DS with free wireless? Orgasmic.

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NINTENDO IS SO DESPERATE... THEY'RE JUST FORCING THE PEOPLE TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS NOW... SAD...

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YES IT IS SAD. OK.

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Nobody forces you to do anything. Plus, this is a free service.

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Uh... Why?

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It's not. I was making fun of his allcaps. That stuff ticks me off for some reason...

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DESPERATE NINTENDO WILL NEVER TAKE OVER THE GAMING INDUSTRY AGAIN. THEY'RE FORCING YOU TO BUY THEIR PRODUCT BY OFFERING FREE WIFI CONNECTIONS EVERYWHERE. THAT IS JUST SAD.

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Your life must really suck tre.

I mean...

YOUR LIFE MUST REALLY SUCK TRE.

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What is this talk of saving nintendo?
I might be wrong but I don't think nintendo needs saving, sony on the other hand.

This sounds great,I hope that there will be hot spots out side the U.S

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Sony has the advantage of other products drawing revenue. Nintendo has only game hardware/software.

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Gee I sure hope that little my little town in New Jersey counts as a 'hot spot' for Nintendo

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This might just save Nintendo.

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Man... makes me wish I had a DS.

...which makes me wish I had money.

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"Nintendo said on Thursday it's free..."

Nate, come on now... I expect posters here to do stupid stuff, but if a staff writer can get it's from its, there should be some concern. :(

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You are a sad, sad little man, and I have pity on you.

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For what, command of the English language? Oh, with what wit which you retort.

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Are you even trying to put two or more words together that are coherent?

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My point was that it's (notice proper usage) pretty sad if you have to be that critical over a simple grammatical error. Mistakes happen. This is a tech site, not a grammar school.

By the way, since we're being so anal, "with what wit which you retort" should be "what wit with which you retort." It reads better. mmmmmk.

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