25th August 2004, 1:48 PM
No, it would most certainly go against it since the DS is a portable, and having all sorts of ports for wired things would make it a non-portable. Sure it'd be nice to have those options, but in Nintendo's eyes if something is meant to do a certain thing, it usually doesn't allow for any other options. And I'm not sure if it'd even be possible for the DS to hook up to a regular ethernet cable. I'd definitely appreciate it, but I can see why Nintendo doesn't want to.