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<b>Question: With the DS' chat and instant message capabilities, are you competing with mobile phones? What direction are you going with this?</b><br/><br/> | <b>Question: With the DS' chat and instant message capabilities, are you competing with mobile phones? What direction are you going with this?</b><br/><br/> | ||
<b>Shigeru Miyamoto:</b> 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 | <b>Shigeru Miyamoto:</b> 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 messaging 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. (laughs).<br/><br/><br/><br/> | ||