Rumor: Nintendo Prepping More Non-Games For DSiWare

Let me be the first to say...

...@#&$@#%^.

A Pokedex would be sweet. Second! (Darn you Chicken Brutus.)

Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? Tingle's Map App!

If the dictionary is appropriately priced, as in free or maybe 200, I may get it. I always hate the small font in those pocket dictionaries.

That, and it's be the perfect little "Strategy Guide" for Scribblenauts.

When they turn this thing into a phone, I'm out.

Hopefully this means we'll get the translator.

isn't there already a map service for Disney World using the DS?
I wondered how that worked...

anyways, PokeDex could be interesting, using the DSi camera. dunno how they would distinguish one thing from another though.

and btw, Decalcomania is the process of transferring designs from prepared paper on to glass or porcelain. just in case anybody else cared to know, I've saved you the trouble of looking it up.

I would not be surprised at all by this. In fact, I would be more surprised if they didn't make anymore DSiware Non-games.

Let me be the second to say...

...@#&$@#%^.

Well there will be a six-in-one translator which is perfect for foreign travel, or for Canadians that travel to Quebec or Americans crossing into Mexico since no passport is needed for Mexican travel.

Ughhhhh... Gawd....

Give me useful apps like a video player, or flash for Opera browser... OR VIRTUAL CONSOLE!

@Token Girl-Darn,you have beaten me to it!
Yes,Tingle has invaded DSiWare in Japan,North America is next!

Hey doesn't Japan's DSiWare have some kinda Nintendo made Map app? If its anything like that I'm all for it.

Hell I'm all for whatever they make out of these. I'm cool with non-games.

MEH! Who's with me?

I really don't understand why Nintendo was as stongly anti-App as they had been. Really, why wouldn't you want to increase functionality and hope to fragment the base of Apple's product?

@ LorD SyN DracuL: Thanks! Your post is the sole reason I read through the comments before looking the word up.

I think the dictionary app might be worth a download if properly priced, and maybe properly themed (don't want it too stark and straight-forward, y'know?).

The maps could be good too, for some people. It sure beats paper fold-up maps!

I would like another clock. Thanks!

^{would only like it to torture Corbie with another review}

"non-games"... You know, not long ago we used to call those applications.

Yeah, but "non-game" sounds more degoritory.

Still glad I didn't upgrade to the DS i

For all the crap they're releasing on DSiWare, I still don't regret upgrading to a DSi. It has benefits, I think. I certainly understand your viewpoint as well, though, JJosh.

I want one more and more. But then I see news like this and change my mind again. I won't get one unless they start a DSiVC

I still cling to the hope that a DSiVirtual Console is on the way since DSiWare has been somewhat disappointing.

Japan already has that map applycation! Realy looks awesome, thought it was only for japan cus it only showed japan streets and stuff. I heard it automaticly pick the map of you country you selected on your dsi

They can add all the apps they want, until there is a DSi VC, I am going to feel a little ripped off.

If you don't want any apps on your DS, then don't buy and download them. The horror of the thought!

For some people (me included), certain apps appeal. I could make use of a Map app, and I could see myself downloading a dictionary when needed.

I also bought 100 classic book collection. Even though it didn't appeal to everyone, I saw the value in it.

All this complaining about something you don't have to buy is just silly.

The evolution of the handheld, stutters...

This is exciting. I hope the Mapping application will be a cross between Google Maps and shall we say a GPS type of thing. I hope that along with the Dictionary there will also be a Thesaurus application for DSiWare and I hope it will run for about 200 points. BTW I hope the Moving Memo Pad will be free.

the map application would only really be useful if it were updateable. Otherwise, you'd have to buy a new one every year or so in order for it to be useful, just like atlases and street maps. the dictionary sounds interesting, though, especially if it's like Jhuhn said -- something for multiple languages would be useful. :3

I would buy this, maybe. I would get the dictionary, just 'cause I need one. If they came out with a GPS cartridge that worked with the map app, I could sell my GPS and get this.

Both WiiWare and DSiWare are really misunderstood services. They are to test new game concepts on the market, it's too risky to experiment with 50$ or 60$ titles. Plus the DSiWare service with its applications is there to defend the DSi from the iPhone.

So, if you say, "I don't like those clocks and calculators, so I won't download them", then you're exactly doing, what Nintendo wants you to do. Those are marketing tests, if they fail, Nintendo does make nearly no loss from those, but if they succeed, the next big hit might spawn from one of those DSiWare minigames.

I am complaining because there isn't much coming out that I want to download. I blame myself for thinking the DSi was going to be cooler then it turned out to be.

Instead of giving us crap every week Nintendo should make virtual handheld.

I love Nintendo because of their cool and populair games... But sometimes I think they wanna rip us...

The map part will be pretty cool but the Dictionary WTF!

The map will suck unless its updatable. But the dictionary should be usefull. (should be updatable too.)

@TourianTourist: I understand that the concept is to try things out, but they need to work on getting games on there. All this stuff they are putting out I have access to already with the web browser they provided.

So far DSiWare has mainly been stripped (or modified) versions of DS games, puzzle games, and pointless applications (unless you don't own a cell phone). There really hasn't been a product that was a must-have purchase so far for me. The few games I've heard of that sounded interesting were shot down or not appearing (Virtual Console Game Boy Games and the Intellivision Lives game).

I wouldn't be so annoyed if they didn't follow a release schedule of one application/game a week, but when you are looking at 4 releases a month (a few more if you're lucky) it gets very frustrating very fast.

@Darknyht:
Well, I agree. I didn't want to say, that I find the DSiWare service appealing either and I'm still waiting for a reason to buy a DSi. Currently there is no exclusive feature, I'm interested in, so I stay with my DSLite for now. While I understand, what Nintendo wants to achieve with the DSiWare system, I too think it would be time to step it up...

However, about the "Virtual Handheld", I'm not so sure anymore, if Nintendo will this pull off or not. Thanks to license issues and ESRB rating the Virtual Console became quite a problem and isn't as profitable, as you may think. Plus, if those DSi applications would be outsold by 2-bit grayscale color games, it would be a huge disaster. So, I believe, Nintendo has decided against a Virtual Handheld for the moment, though it would probably be the coolest thing on the DSi... oh well.

Will the make them free? Yeah right!

People really need to stop complaining about apps. Even if they're 'overpriced' you don't have to buy them, and then you have to wait just ONE WEEK for the next batch of games/apps to come out...

Let me be the 4th to say......
@#$%^&......

a youtube app and a video player app that played movies off your SD card would be very nice and a update to record video on the camra app. also we havent had a DSi firmware update yet! so lets make this first one good!

@ #12 Hardy83
Amen to that lol

Now this is the time for a DSi VC because DSiWare is screwing us all over....... Wasn't the calculator/clock hybrid worse enough?

Id get the dictionary
I aready have the itouch for maps

A dictionary would be well received

And so would some kind of note taking app (shopping lists, etc) and the 100 book collection that's in Europe but not the U.S.

I hate to break it to you people but mankind managed to use maps for a very long time without them auto-updating or being attached to a phone.

@cagool true

let me be the 4th (45. slapshot82 didn't say it) to say

...@#&$@#%^.