Post-E3: DS Chat; IM A Possibility

In a recent interview, Shigeru Miyamoto said that with the Dual Screen’s target user being between age 5 and age 95, there are many who would be interested in using the Nintendo Dual Screen and stylus for chat and instant messaging, and that it would be a possibility, especially since the Dual Screen has Wi-Fi

Question: With the DS’ chat and instant message capabilities, are you competing with mobile phones? What direction are you going with this?

Miyamoto: I think there are two ways of looking at it. Our target user is everyone: people age 5 to 95. And if you look at that wide user base, you have children who see their parents with PDAs and such. So there’s a lot of appeal for kids to use the DS and the stylus for its chat and IMing. And it’s possible for someone with a wireless router in their home to potentially link up the Nintendo DS to that router, the computer and the internet and then to potentially link up to other instant messenging programs. I don’t know how Microsoft will see this or if anyone will put anything out for this, or we may put something out independent as well. But maybe since Microsoft isn’t making any cellphones maybe we’ll be fine. Whoever is bleach fan will like this game!