Comments by Nintendo's Shigeru Myamoto to Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu have revealed that plans to bring its consoles within the next 3 to 4 years.

The recently launched DS, with its built-in Wifi capabilities, is presumably the first wave of this, and Myamoto said it will be followed by more devices as online gaming becomes more mainstream.

It could be argued that with Live and the PS2's network gaming capability that online gaming is already mainstream, or is rapidly approaching that state. Nintendo, however, have previously said that they view this technology as merely a niche.

"Most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet," Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President, told the this summer, "For some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy."

By Jason Cartwright

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  1. phlickerjr Unregistered 5 years ago

    Can I go online with the ds? Where can I connect to the internet with it? What are my wireless and multiplayer options?

  2. Nick Roth Unregistered 5 years ago

    Get online features so that you can keep up with the hussel and bussel of the other systems because if you do more people will buy the sytem and more games for it also. Also create game that have singleplayer, multiplayer, and online functions because than that way your customers won't be so dissappointed with you.