Nintendo DS or 3DS Player?

[fdurso224]

Hi guys,

 

Like the Super Game Boy & Game Boy Player, will Nintendo ever be doing anything to play DS or 3DS game on the home console for the Wii or Wii-U?

 

Anthony....

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

I would doubt anything for the Wii but who knows maybe for Wii-U........

[FireStar]

Nintendo would probably try to get people to buy a 3DS still, so I'd imagine IF nintendo decides to make a DS player, it would either be a plain DS or 3DS one with some functionality removed (like the Super Gameboy not having a link port). The Gameboy Player may have not been gimped,but the Gamecube wasn't exactly selling like hotcakes. Maybe we'll get a 3DS player if it has more momentum than the WiiU.

[Austin]

A DS player would be nice, but without having some sort of touch interface controller to substitute the bottom screen, it won't happen unless you want to render a nice chunk of the library relatively useless (or much more annoying to play).

[Atariboy]

The WiiU controller has a touch screen.

[Austin]

The WiiU controller has a touch screen.

 

Yep. Basically, we can hope, but I don't think it is going to happen. Would be nice though.

 

In the meantime, if you have a bad-ass computer, you can do DS emulation.

 

Tried it on my rig actually--it didn't work out ideally enough though. It was pretty choppy.

[Atariboy]

Same here, I don't think it will happen.

 

You'd lose the 3D benefits, many games rely on primarily looking at the touch screen (Thus, little is gained playing on a tv), and many games rely on using both screens simultaneously. I don't see a setup like this happening when it wouldn't be of much use for a significant portion of the software libraries of the DS and 3DS.

 

Still, count me in if they were to release a 3DS Player for the Wii U. Many of the games I enjoy the best on both platforms barely even utilize the touch screen.

[Rex Dart]

Still, count me in if they were to release a 3DS Player for the Wii U. Many of the games I enjoy the best on both platforms barely even utilize the touch screen.

 

Me too. And the ones that do use a touch screen, they just use it as an analog input device... you don't need to look at it.