Miyamoto & Final Fantasy producer talk about the DS

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i was just thinking. i guess i'm not really sure how this "wifi" shit works...but we got wifi hubs all over campus that allow the fancy students with laptops to access the internet when they're in certain buildings (such as the library or the union...some day i think they're going to implement it in all the dorms too maybe...). anyway, if the DS supports wifi then wouldn't it automatically support online play? because it'd be able to access the internet as long as you were near a wifi hub (for me, inside the library or union). so all a game would need to be on-line is some sort of matchmaking system and a gamer willing to get his ass to a wifi hub.

right?

Yeah, that's how it should work, and that was even one of Nintendo's big selling points at E3... but then they decided that online was still something "gamers don't want".