Who Needs An iPhone?
Now that Nintendo's unclenched their games-only policy with the Wii's web browsing and net-based features, perhaps they've unleashed a bit of a beast. By which I mean to say, how does the idea of a Nintendo-designed gaming phone strike you? Silly or spot-on?
Thanks to our friendly neighborhood patent-registration-thingy, and of course the nerdcore beauties at Engadget, we may have to answer that question sooner rather than later. What's weird (and possibly what makes this line of inquiry a dead-end) is that although the USPTO released the patent info last year, the patent itself was dated November 2001.
What that means is that non-gaming-restricted growth has been on Nintendo's mind for quite a bit longer than one might otherwise think...and it also almost certainly means that even if Ninty still has plans for a gaming phone (which I doubt, but I've been happily wrong about everything they've done since Mario Kart 64), those plans are unlikely to look anything like the soccer mom candy bar phone pictured here.
Make the jump to see some fuzzy but intriguing pics of the once-and-future Famifone (maybe).
Watch out N-Gage, Nintendo's right on your tail [Engadget]
tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 6 February 2007
· Comments (3)
I just want to know... does it come in Pink?
Does it come in not ugly? :3
I shit you not: I've been carrying Metoroid 2 around in my jacket for 3 straight weeks now, watched an awesome 59 minute speedrun all the way through, and I might as well pop it in tonight to get some Metoroid action on. Last time through took 15 hrs I think, bc I would constantly get lost...