Nintendo and McDonalds form unholy union to destroy the PSP and your health

[K3V]

OH yeah I can just imagine all those kindergarteners & middle school kids with their wireless high speed connection & DS getting all excited

plus we have the mature crowd who will have to go out of their way to go to a McDonalds to JUST play their DS online
LOL

I think you've managed to get it completely backwards.

[Wildkat]

I'm gonna start hanging out in front of McDonald's.
Fuck their 'food'.
Well, except their ice cream, which isn't half bad.

Its pretty hard to fuck up ice cream. I don't think McD's can even accomplish that.

[Mzo]

TO LOW FOR FAT HOES!

LOL!

[StriderKyo]

Wouldn't a PSP be able to use the hotspot just as well as a DS could?

[lithium]

Wouldn't a PSP be able to use the hotspot just as well as a DS could?

They can limit what can connect to the hotspot pretty easily. If nothing else, all DS's probably have MAC addresses within a certain range, so only allow that range in. I'm sure there are more sophisticated means of limiting access that Nintendo thought of when designing the DS.

[Josh]

This is a great idea.

I can see pulling up next to a McDonalds on a road trip at four in the morning and checking my email and shit with my (soon to be purchased) DS.
There will be a web browser for this system... yes?

[D_N_G]

Two stupid terms from Slashdot, use them as you will:

Wi-Fry
BigMAC Address

As for TCP/IP limitations, reports are it doesnt support those protocols:

From TFA:
Nintendo and Wayport will offer complimentary Wi-Fi hotspots... enabling DS owners ... to play online games with or against each other."

The DS does not have a TCP stack and has no native support for IPv4 or IPv6 (from http://www.darkain.com/nintendo_ds/nifi.php [darkain.com]):

"The DS does not internally support a TCP stack or any IPv4/IPv6 communications at all. This is why the DS cannot be played online without the use of tunneling... Ni-Fi is a layer 3 protocol on top of 802.11."

802.11x is a network layer, not a magical gateway to "Teh internets"

So it goes to reason that the McDonalds hotspot for the DS won't support regular tcp/ip, as its a hotspot for DS users to play with each other. You probably won't be able to connect your laptop to it.

[Josh]

McDonalds already has WiFi for "teh internets". It is not free.

[StriderKyo]

This is a great idea.

I can see pulling up next to a McDonalds on a road trip at four in the morning and checking my email and shit with my (soon to be purchased) DS.
There will be a web browser for this system... yes?

Never. You think Nintendo wants teachers calling parents because Jimmy brought his portable pr0n browser to school?

There's a media player for it in Asia though. Nintendo seems reluctant to bring it over.

[Josh]

Never. You think Nintendo wants teachers calling parents because Jimmy brought his portable pr0n browser to school?

Good point. I forgot about who Nintendo's target market is.